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Title: Perkins School for the Blind Bound Clippings: World War Blind, 1916
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors: Perkins School for the Blind, formerly Perkins Institution
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Contributing Library: Samuel P. Hayes Research Library, Perkins School for the Blind
Digitizing Sponsor: Perkins School for the Blind

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men. I dont feelso ap.art then. j3oStov\, i^a^ss.. f\yv\«.~rv Opera l1ou6e Concertfor Fund for Bfind Tonight at the Boston Opera Housewill occur the allU ! bazaar mid-sea-eon event when there will be given aprogram of musical and dramaticstars in aid of the B. F. 3. Per-manent Blind Relief War Fund andthe Allied Bazaar. Among the artiststo appear will be Raymond Hitch-cock, who will offer a distinctiveentertainment designated as singing;Miss Belle Story, soprano; mr. OrrinBastedo, baritone; Miss Lucile Orrel,cellist, and Mr.. Hugh Allan, tenor;Sergeant-Major Middlemiss, a soldierblinded in the war, will relate hisadventures in the battle of Gallipoli.There will also be shown motionpictures of thrilling war scenes trkenat the front in actual battle whichhave been presented by the Britishand French governments to the B. FB. Fund, and are shown here for tb»first time. <(( BostxivT., ra.x-;s. , i-oe.t::- D ccewiboT^ H- Iifiio. Blinded British Hero Cheeredby Greeting From Helen Keller
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The most remarkable woman livin-. i- ■ i compliment paid by Sergeant-Major Robert Middlemiss, blind Brhish soldier, now in Boston, to MissHelen Keller. Give my love to every blind soldier in Europe, and toyour little baby daughter, said Miss Keller when they met A small, black, jagged piece of thecasing of a hand grenade, wnich dan-gles from his watch chain as a charm,tells a tragic story in the life of Ser-geant-Major Robert Middlemiss, theblinded British soldier now taking animportant part in the Allied Bazaar inBoston. Sergeant Middlemiss landed froman English battleship on Y Beach at Gallipoli one Sunday morning, climbedto the heights under cover of darknessthat night, attacked the Turkish posi-tions at dawn, and when 30 yardsfrom the enemys trenches he lost hissight forever by the bursting of ahand grenade hurled by a Turk. H« la very proud of the Strang*charm which sums up his 24 hours service at GallipoU with the very firstBritish landing party, and also recallsthe fact that

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