YET HE LIVED TO TELL THE TALE!

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3199, 25 September 1917, Page 6

YET HE LIVED TO TELL THE TALE!

YOUNG NEW ZBALANDER RECEIVES EIGHTEEN WOUNDS. Ift is not the lot of many soldiers to sustain as many as eighteen wounds at the front, and still retain health and manly beauty. Yet such is the case ot Private A. A. Elliott, son of Mr. D. A. Elliott, of Itiddiford Street, who has recently returned from France, via several hospitals in Englnnd. Thanks to his x youth and a robust, constitution, Private Elliott was able to pull through one of tho severest ordeals imaginable. As a Main Body man, he went to Ejypt and Gallipoli, and there on that grim beach of -Vnssac 'Cove, where the bullets spattered night and day almost the whole time the N.Z. Forces were located there, Elliott received a nasty flesh-wound in the leg from a Turkish bullet, and was packed off to one of the hospitals' at Malta,, where he 6oon pulled round. Hβ speaks well of his treatment there, but not so well of the way the 'Convalescent Camp at Gliain Teffiia was run. Ho was shot on July 26, 1915, but was ready to go forward once more when the N.Z. Infantry 'Forces were transferred to Northern France. There they wore, billeted in Armentieres, going into tho trenches near that city-about May 20 On May -29 Elliott, with fivq other members of the Canterbury Regiment, found a place wherein to rest their heads in a cottage closo to the centre of the town, and were just,about to seltlo down to a quiet little game of poker, when the German big guns began to throw shell after shell into tho city. Curious .to know where the shells were falling, Elliott wont out into the street, and had not been there more than a few minntos when two shells came over. One crashed ri"ht into the cottage he had left, killing all his comrades, and the second burst directlj over hie head, popp<rins him very thoroughly with shrapnel. When lie came to, Elliott found himself in the No 2 Field Hospital, and unable to recognise himself in the mirror.held, up befoi-o him. He had had black-eyes before but in this case his blood-shot eves wave tho centres of big blue-black matches. He had two wounds In tho head One had actually broken or splintered the frontal -bone over his left eve. and the pieeo of slmrpnel had been found sticking into it. In addition tn the two head wounds ho had Htceu other vfbnnds all over his body ami legs. The most serious of these was a poreed lung bv a pioee of sharpuel, and poisonIng set in. Whilst he was weak as tl.e result of half-a-dozen operations he developed enteric ferer (in the Netlev Hμpital), and was trausferm! to tho Ad--lir"tnn ParV V p "°'' Hospital. When at length the fever left him. he was shifted tn Hin Croydon War Hospital, and fronv there ™-i. transferred to the Cnn- "„,„„,„„* Ho«" ; <-»1 at Hornchiircli. Private Elliott still feels Vis luiif womid on occasions, but has rapidlv nickedup ennsince his arrival back in, Wellington. ..

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"Christmas Day" were the Christian -'names of a man who chimed exemption at Kingston. He explained that he wns given them because two men r.amod Christmas and Day were -.jsiting his father's house when he was '-lorn.