>From Ellesmere Guardian, ( New Zealand ), Volume LX, Issue 41, 26 May 1939, Page 3. CHILDHOOD PLEDGE - REDEEMED AFTER TWENTY YEARS. London, May 6 Because of his sister's childhood pledge, the body of a German officer who died in 1918 was exhumed at Bray cemetery, Berkshire, this week. The officer, Lieut. Eugen Wilhelm MAHN , died while a prisoner of war. When MAHN and his sister Elfrida were children they engaged in a vow never to allow themselves to be buried apart. War came, and Lieut. MAHN , then aged 27, was captured. He was sent to the internment camp at Holyport, near Maidenhead. There he and a number of others refused to eat, believing that their food had been poisoned. Their resistance weakened, they became victims of the 1918 influenza epidemic. For 20 years his sister saved up in order that she might redeem the childhood pledge. Then she obtained a permit from the British Home Office. She stood by and wept as the coffin was dug up and the remains were placed in a new ornamental one which was sealed and put in a hearse for the journey to Germany.