OUR WOUNDED IN BRITAIN

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2587, 8 October 1915, Page 5

OUR WOUNDED IN BRITAIN

.VERY HAPPILY: PLACED,

By Telegraph—Press AssoolatUm-Oojiyrlfht London,'October'6. If the friends of Australian and New Zealand, wounded officers on ':;Lbiidon ; could see where they are,'quartered'they . wftuld-feel no anxiety'on their ■'account; ■ Tho majority are now at Wandsworth ■. ■/- 3rd, London General., Hospital, -/-where they, sitm beautiful open grounds, in which new nuts have been ereoted, some in iron,. others 'iit stucoo, .lined? -with • fibroH:ement,' with bright and attractive interiors, Tho, inmates read or walk: in •the .grounds, and aro taken out in .■ Three, concerts or other enter.tainmen'ts are held weekly The outside ■ v wards are, "connected ' with ihe hospital ~ hy ;loug;glass-eiiclosed wrridprs. ,■ There are many captains and lieutenants from' ✓ each State, m a ward ,at the extreme f.pnd of the corridora, • which have been -V-; pliristened "Tipperary," -because \tJie. Australians said it was "a Jong way tojgo.'' '-'Dotted around the ground-are revolving huts for open-air .treatment. They gre turned according to:-the direc-, tion of the. wind; and, rain. -The hos-' pital is administered by Colonel Por- ' tor." .. ■■ v.. . Most of the wounded New- Zealand • officers- are well. .' Major Dawson is able to .take up temporary '... duties at -Weymouth; Major Schofield, who has a shrapnel wound, is on leave; Mpjor/M'Lean, with a chest wound, is still in hospital; Major Luxford, chaplain, has lost a leg; Optain. W. HaraMm, V.C., injured 'lung, is. convalescent. "V ' . There are' seven thousand wounded . Adsttftliaiis'novj';in'.England, 'nwny .having suffered loss, of a limb.Two r artificial limb-makers-liave been : brought frOrrf and are,'aVjvork'at Hare r iteld. Twenty Harcfield.alone have lofit -a leg. . Artificial limbs wilPbe. Blade of Government material at the ' hospital by the Victorians at an estimated third of .the : usual'cost,-