Short stories in the genre Hero Narrative

Listing 2 stories.

A train conductor serves his community faithfully for fifty years and wins the hearts of the people along his track.

A poor but noble-blooded Chinese man seeks glory by inadvertently joining the English war effort in WWI. He works as a trench-digger, but his ambition leads him to take up arms during a battle, inspiring his fellow trench-diggers to fight with him.