HELP FOR THE WOUNDED.
BY COLONEL WINTER EVANS. PARTICULARS OF GALLANT DEED. fI!Y TKI.KCr.ArU—-SPKCIAIi TO GUARDIAN.] CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. Among the'officers awarded the D.S.O in the last list was Lieut. Colonel Winter Evans who enlisted from Reef ton. Particulars of the gallant deed done, have been received. Four of the Colonel’s men were caught by German fire in No Alan’s Land. One was killed and three were wounded Dawn came, and the wounded sheltered in a shell hole. Evans saw their plight and loaded himself with food and water bottles, and stepped over th<> parapet and walked boldly in broad daylight to the hole and rendered first, aid, and tended them till night, when the me n were brought in. Evans served through the siege of Ladysmith and won the D.C.M..
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Hokitika Guardian, 18 July 1917, Page 1
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131HELP FOR THE WOUNDED. Hokitika Guardian, 18 July 1917, Page 1
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