SOLDIER WHO CELEBRATES HIS RESURRECTION

Chronicle (Levin), 17 June 1946, Page 6

SOLDIER WHO CELEBRATES HIS RESURRECTION

Once a year a'Queensland soldier celebrates liis re'surrection with the men who saw hiin killed. O11 May 10, 1916, at Quinn's Post on * Gallipoli, close-range machinegun fire inflicted 51 wounds on Lieut. Leo Casey and he was believed to be dead. With others lie was placed in a gravc for burial, and the padres commenced tlie reading of tlie burial serviee. buddenly Father Power saw Casey 's "body" move, and gave o-rders for its iiiiiiiediate rcmoval from the grave. The "dead" man was handed over to a doctor. After 108 major operations and 7S local anaesthetics he was considerod well enough to be transferred to the London General, Hosiiital, where he recovered. He applied for liis pav but the Army sliook its licad and informed liim that he was dead. The records said so. But he got it-in the end. Once a year, ou th.e anuiversary oihis "resurrection," Lieut. Casey aud a handful of the meii who were witli liim 011 tliat momentous day at Quiun's Post ceiebrate tlie occasion at the Anzac Club, B risbaue. A keg of beer is swuug to tlie outside of tlie bar, aud tlie hero of tlie occasion screws in the tap aud acts as barman.