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THE ILLUSTRATED WAR NEWS, NOV. 18, 1914--5


[Illustration: HE WAS A MAN: FIELD-MARSHALL EARL ROBERTS, THE
WORLD-FAMOUS SOLDIER, WHO DIED AT SIR JOHN FRENCH'S HEADQUARTERS.]

Full of years and honours, Lord Roberts has met death upon the Field of
Honour as surely as though he had died fighting at the head of the brave
soldiers whom he loved so well. To enumerate his qualities: indomitable
courage, keen intelligence, broad humanity, is to gild refined gold. At
the call of duty he visited the Army and the Indian soldiers in France,
despite his eighty-two years; there he caught a chill and passed
peacefully away. The message to Lady Roberts by Field-Marshall Sir John
French will find universal echo: "...Your grief is shared by us who mourn
the loss of a much-loved chief ... It seems a fitter ending to the life of
so great a soldier that he should have passed away in the midst of the
troops he loved so well and within the sound of the guns."




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6--THE ILLUSTRATED WAR NEWS, NOV. 18, 1914.