CAPT. WALLINGFORD RETIRING
"SICK OF KILLING WITH THE RIFLE." By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyriglii London, September 24. ; \ Captain'Wallirigford' is .retiring from the: New Zealand Forco owing to a : strained heart. V ' Writing to bis parents he-says: "I tried to stick' to it, but for fourteen' days; after tvo had beaten off tho Turks I.was crawling round rtiy guns with a' stick.' 1 got lionie with my revolver, killing, four Turks, one at a distance.of a foot, another, at five £eet, a third at ten feet, .and tho last at twenty yards. Tlio poor devils wore all youngsters. lam sick of killing with the rifle." n [As a non-commissioned officer Captain Wallingford (bis present rank is a New Zealand one) was recognised as '.the crack shot,of the British Army. In 1911 lie was appointed Instructor in Musketry to tho New Zealand Forces, being given the local rank of lieutenant, and later being promoted to a captaincy. Since lie Jias ( been at Gallipoli ho has put up a iworiderful sniping record.] ■'
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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2577, 27 September 1915, Page 6
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167CAPT. WALLINGFORD RETIRING Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2577, 27 September 1915, Page 6
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