THE SIXTH REINFORCEMENTS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2628, 25 November 1915, Page 6

THE SIXTH REINFORCEMENTS

DEPARTURE FOR THE FRONT.

News of tha Sixth Reinforcements i» contained in a letter received by his wife at Kaehu, from Private E A Vennell, of Auckland. Writing from Zeitoun oamp, under date of September 23, Private Vennell states that they arrived 111 Egypt on September 19' after a fairly_good passage from New Zealand. They had been in heavy training ever since on the desert, rising for drill at 5.30 a.m. and finishing daily at 6.30 p.m. The camp was very big and everything kept scrupulously clean! All the Fifth -mounted men, states the writer, were to leave with them for the Dardanelles on September 26, the Sixth mounted remaining behind with the horses. All were wearing knickerbockers, as they were so much cooler to march in. _. The weather was not so hot, as the whiter season was approaching. Remarking; upon the fact. that there were very few New Zealanders left on Gallipoli, the majority hem" scattered about having a well-earneS Test, Private iVennell said that most of the_ men were suffering after their long period in the: trenches from dysentery and exhaustion more than from bullet wounds. Many had come through all engagements- without a scratch.