If my own son can best serve England at this juncture by giving his life for her, I would not lift one finger to bring him home. If any act or word of mine should interfere with or take from him his grandest privilege, I could never look him in the face again.

Mrs. Berridge, in 'The Morning Post', 30 September 1914

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