A GALLANT DEED

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2659, 3 January 1916, Page 3

A GALLANT DEED

MASTERTON MAN'S BRAVERY. The following deed of conspicuous bravery, performed the week after the landing at Gallipoli, in which Sapper Harold L. Langdon, who was _ wellknown in Masterton, took part, is related by Sapper R-. H. Melville, of the Divisional Signalling Company, New .Zealand Engineers, who was invalided home after being wounded at Gallipoli: —"The Otago Infantry Battalion had suffered very heavy casualties. -They advanced into a position where they were under very heavy fire. It was practically impossible, arid,a matter of great danger, to attempt- to join them. It was. necessary to havo some means of communication with them, however, and a telephone squad from the brigade section of the Divisional Signalling Company, consisting of Corporal Basse tt, Sapper H. L. ; Langdon, and Sapper R.. Hopkins attempted the feat of effecting tho communication. They succeeded in laying and joining up tho line, aiid came back unscathed. It was a most perilous piece of work, because of the firo they wore subjected to there and back. The three men concerned were all mentioned in dispatches." Sapper Langdon, who died of enteric on August 5, 'was also at Cane Helles with the Lifantry Brigade when they made their now famous advance, and when he did good work. Sapner Lano--don was tho eldest son of Mr. R. L. Langdon, of Wai-iti, Masterton.