BRIGADIER-GENERAL DAVIES

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2315, 24 November 1914, Page 5

BRIGADIER-GENERAL DAVIES

—. 1 _ Some interesting particulars- concern*! ing Brigadier-General Davies, the New.] Zealand officer, who has been serving) at the frontj are contained iii a letter' written by his daughter to- an Auckland! 1 resident. Miss Davies, writing oni September 24, says:—"We have just., been to see one of. father's wounded officers, who. gave us a very graphio' account of the war as far as he had seen it. He told us of the wonderful way, father captured a column. The fact that there were so few casualties in the 6th Brigade, especially during that dreadful retreat, is put down especially to father. They say he is quite well,, but the strain of that rotreat told on. 1 ; him terribly. . . . At the begins ning our troops were just about exhausted, and had not had their boots? off for ten days." Under date Septem-.' bor 30 Miss Davies says: "Father i5'..... back here at Aldershot. His lung has; never healed properly since he had.; pneumonia at tne beginning of the year,, and his health for some time has been: '■ causing Sir Douglas. Haig and other, authorities a great deal of anxiety.) They said: he was much, too valuabla, to them to have him dying out there,; . so sent , him home. Up to the time hei left Ms brigade had been .fighting un?|.. -ceasingly for sixteen days, father-him-j— self getting on an average of two sleep in three nights. Often he did not' sleep for several nights, and was in wet clothes for days without changing. He. is ordered to Cornwall for a month, and can see no one, not even the King, whoj camo down for the; week-end, andjvant-' ed to see him' on Sunday. Ho is verylow, and fretting dreadfully because ho, is not with his brigade." Later report that General Davies is making a good recovery. \