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SOLDIERS’ WILLS

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jan 1, 1902

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 28, No. 1.

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SOLDIERS’ WILLS.

Many queer and pathetic wills, says the Chicago Tribune, have been found upon the bodies of dead soldiers, and in every case the wishes of the testator have been respected and duly carried out. During the Sudan campaign of 1884, the body of one soldier was found upon the battlefield of El Teb, who, before death, had scrawled with the end of a lead bullet on the inside of his helmet the words, “All to my wife.” When an English army invaded Afghanistan, one soldier was caught while doing scout duty, and shot down when none of his comrades were in sight. Weeks afterward his body was found lying before a tall rock, on which he had written in letters of blood, “I want mother to have all.” In both cases the war department held the wills to be valid, and saw them properly carried out. But how much more sure of execution is the will of God.