Shannon Notes.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 2 July 1915, Page 2

Shannon Notes.

[By our Resident Representative.] There was another quiet wedding n (Shannon on Wednesday when Mr Alfred Hyde was married to Miss Wilkinson. Complaints are still reaching me of mud in the public school grounds, although the Board of Education have recently spent over £70 in asphalting. Mrs Butler's son, who was wounded at the Dardanelles, is in the hospital, at Malta. 'Mr and Mrs Cotterell are leaving .Shannon for Mr Craw's farm at Linton. Mr 15. J. Judd .has disposed of his property 011 the (Levin road to Mr J. Breshnan, and Mr Barber has purchased the farm of Mr L. Jenkins. It is stated that there is about three feet of water in the flax swamps. Miss Maynard, one of the assistant teachers at the public school, is incapacitated through illness and is n Palmerston North hospital. At the last meeting of the Shannon Debating Society iMr iHensman was elccfecf president and Mr Clayton vicopresident. THE; SHANNON SOLDIERS. iMrs Moyuihan has received a letter from her son, Mr K-eui Moyuihan, dated from Helowan hospital, Cairo. He states that he was conveyed in a transport to Lemnos and witnessed the bombardment .by the British warships. The landing at the Dardanelles was effected with great lose of life. In two ■boats every man of the Australians was killed. Those. who effected a landing drove back the Turks with fixed bayonets and entrenched themselves. Mr 'Moyuihan was with a party which had to storm a hill under heavy lire. He was lucky enough to escape this time though his mates were killed and wounded all roun dliim. The Turks were driven back but the (British los'i that day was 33 per cent. Jack Smith was killed in this action and so was Steve Shad lock. Jenkins, who used to work for'Mr Lambert, was wounded. King and iStevens were not in this light. The British then entrenched themselves and soon had a strong position. Mi* Moynihan adds: "Norman Woods aud 1 were lying down side by side when a Maxim gun enfiladed from the right flank. Woods was hit; he got it in the (back, a nasty wound. 1 was hit twice, one .below the knee and the other in the thigh; hotli luckily missing the bone and going through the flesh. We were both hit the same second. Poor Woods was hit bad and could not move his legs. I bandaged him up as well as I could, and then I had to crawl round behind him and puJl liis legs out straight and lay him in the trench as he was exposed to fire. Our Our corporal who was near came and stayed with Norman. 1 also sent for Jack Curran so that iie would 'be well looked after until night when the am fiulance men would take him out safely. I was sent baek as I could manage to walk a hit. I have not heard since, if Norman arrived or not.". Mr Moynihan was sent to Alexandria and thence to Oairo from where the letter was written. Mrs Moynihan. has also received 1 a note from Mr Ivnyvett from AbassTa hospital, Cairo, showing how .manfully •Rewi had borne his part in the action, iliift he does not say why he is in the hospital himself.