Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 233, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 September 1916 — “DEAD” SON IS LIVING HERO [ARTICLE]

“DEAD” SON IS LIVING HERO

Through Magazine Picture Mother Locates Boy She Parted From Twenty Years Ago. Austin, Tex.—Mrs. M. Ilemsley, formerly of New Zealand, who is making her temporary home in Austin, was looking through a magazine the other day . when she came across a picture showing an award for bravery and honor being made to an Anzae hero somewhere in the war zone of the British army. She immediately recognized the hero as being her son, whom she has not heard of for nearly twenty years. The photograph gave his name as Vernon Edmund Challis of the New Zealand field artillery, which is the name that was given her son by the family that adopted him when he was a mere infant. Mrs. Hemsley left her baby with friends in New Zealand nearly twenty years ago and came to America in search of health. She was later notl-fled-that the child was dead and she mourned him as such until the magazine picture came to her attention. Mrs. Hemsley has communicated with

the high commissioner for New Zealand In London in the hope of being able to obtain the present address of her son so she can write to him. She is Informed that the young man was the second man in New Zealand to enroll as a volunteer, and that he participated with valor in the* Dardanelles campaign, where he was wounded.