RETURN OF LIEUT. KEDDELL.

Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 26 April 1901, Page 2

RETURN OF LIEUT. KEDDELL.

Lieutenant Keddell who formerly lived j at Greymouth, and' who left with the Otago section of the Fourth contingent arrived back in Oamaru last week, having returned invalided from South Africa ! in the Waihora. Major Keddell met his son in Dunedin, and whilst there, the lieutenant was examined under the X rays by Dr de Lautour, who found that his injury has left a sequestrian of bone, which must be removed by operation before a complete cure can be expected. Prior to going into the hospital for the operation, Lieutenant Keddell purposes visiting his old friends at Clyde where he was fitted out. The members of the Medical Board who invalided Lieutenant Keddell at Capetown found that he was shot on 12th January, 1901, at Ventersdorp by a Martini bullet (not a Mauser), which penetrated the left humerus just below the surgical neck, from before backwards, through the shaft of the bone, causing a compound cominated fracture. The officerwas for six weeks in Johannesburg Hospital and was in the first instance invalided to England. This order was, however, afterwards countermanded. All Lieutenant Kcddcl's clothes and belongings which he stored at Capetown on proceeding to the front were detained when the troopship left that port on account of the plague. The result of the wound received at Vcntersdorp still necessitates the injured arai being carried in a sling,