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Horowhenua Chronicle, 15 May 1915, Page 3

Oil .Monday evening a mootiiiir of Levin ladies u ill l„. hold m AJi.ss Gardner's studio to iorm a m\st-aid-to-tho-in.jiired class. The son of a soWier. the late Private I'. W. -Mar.dell, who has succumbed to wounds received at the Dardanelles. was the son of Mr .John W. Mardell, of Onehunga. Ho was only ninteon yearn of age. and went to the front with the 3rd Keinlorcoments. "Ife was a fine hoy, and a great help to me, and T did not want him to go." said Mr Mardell to an Auckland "Star" reporter. "Jn fact, T refused to give him permission because he was not yot twenty-one years of age, hut he was awfully keen to go and his reply was: "When you wore my age. Dnd. von fought in the Dardanelles. Now you are too old to go. ['in the right age. You call yourself a Britisher, and you won't let nte go now." So T gave niv consent." added Mr Mardell, "and the hoy went. His mother is dead. He was a fine «on. lam proud of him." Mr Mardell. son., was only a youth going home on a holiday from Tndi'i, when the | Russo-Turkish war broke out. and he j joined the Alexandar. the fki<rship of I the Mediterranean Squadron, and saw service in the "Dardanelles and in the Rosphorus remaining on active service until invalided with an injured leg. He afterwards rame and settled in New Zealand, his son. now reported dead, having been horn it Mongonui.— Auckland Star. ■'If I I ' I—■—