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He was killed in action near Ourcq, on the 30th July 1918. 'At the dawn of a misty Sunday, 28th July, the 165th had made a gallant and irresistible charge across the river and up the hill. In the height of the great five days' battle for the mastery of the heights that followed Kilmer was killed.'

We pride ourselves at times on being unsentimental internationalists, citizens of the world, superior to the weakness of loving any one country, any one people more than another; but so long as we are human (and we are a long way yet from being anything else) the people that we