BATTLE INCIDENTS.
NEW ZEALANDERS' EXPLOITS.-
(Received October 4, 9.20 a.m.)^ ?"■-■■ LONDON, October 3. < ( A Headq\- ( aift«rs correspondent states that a New Zealand officer leading the Otago troops at Hers, on. September 15, was wounded. A sergeant assumed command, and the party carried a trench and consolidated the position. During the same fight, an Auckland sergeant led a bombing . party to a German Bap, despite losses. • Most of tho party and himself were blown off their feet, but ultimately they won the trench. An Auckland private, seeing. \his comrades hard-pressed, took up reinforcementvS. Though Hie himself was wounded, he ran along the trench, deliberately bombing the Germans, thus I permitting the Canterbui'y , men to press home a counter-attack. .
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXVI, Issue 3571, 4 October 1916, Page 5
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