MORE RETURNING SOLDIERS
.BY TAHITI AND MAUNGANUI. By Telegraph—Press Association. Dunedin, Juno 0. The transports Tahiti and Maunganui arrived this afternoon. The Tahiti has 139 men on board, 51 of whom were from England and were taken on board at Suez; tho rest are convalescent from illness. Major Wain is the officer commanding, Captain Cox, ship's adjutant, and Dr. Elizabeth Gunn, medical officer, Tho Maunganui has 23.invalids. When the vessel left Suez these included 15 cot cases,, but only the following five are now. confined to bed: —Q.M.S. D. W. Masterton (Artillery), Sapper H. R. Denize (Engineers), Tpr. A. C. Healy (Wellington Mounted), Pte. J. 31. Robertson (Canterbury Infantry), Pte. Port (N.Z. Pioneer Battalion). The .North Island men leave to-morrow at 11.53 a.m., and should reach Lyttelton at 8.35 p.m. Lieut. Westmacott, on tho Tahiti, lost ia leg just above the ankle. One remark, able case was that of a Greymoulli trooper' who received some 30 shrapnel wounds and was given up by the doctors, but has made a wonderful roooverv, and is now cheeky and bright.
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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2790, 7 June 1916, Page 6
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177MORE RETURNING SOLDIERS Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2790, 7 June 1916, Page 6
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