SOLDIERS’ LETTERS.
INTERESTING ITEMS.
Private Henry E. Eggeling, of the 14.t1i Reinforcements writing to. a friend in Hokitika after the battle, ol Most sines says:— Just a few lines to let you know thatl am still alive and kicking. We have !jact a pretty rough time for a while, but you will have seen all about the great battle and all that the New Zealanders did in the great tight. I would like to write ami tell you .all about it, but it would only be censored, so all I '••an say is that I went through without i scratch s'" It is a marvellous thing how one escapes the shells, and bullets, that are (lying like hailstones. It is all ivcr now, but 1 don’t know for how long, but 1 hope it is for a while. I have- not seen iny brother yet, but ihe ought to be putting in his appear- | a nee any day now. Aou will know that •he took the mumps when his draft was coming over, and had to be left behind. There have been a few West Coast linys joining this company recently whom I know: Died rich, Adamson, F. Brown, Theo Lynch, E. Cooper and a few more. ; We are having lovely weather here now while von in New Zealand, will be having vour cold winter weathei.
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Hokitika Guardian, 27 August 1917, Page 1
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226SOLDIERS’ LETTERS. Hokitika Guardian, 27 August 1917, Page 1
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