SHOT AT THE FRONT.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 1429, 27 July 1915, Page 4

SHOT AT THE FRONT.

A HAWERA BOY’S DEATH. Mr Claude Harrison, ot the Postal Department, Hawera, has received a letter from Sapper Jack Hornblow, ot the Divisional Signal Company, dated —, May 17th, in which the writer says, inter alia ; “I daresay yon have beard be fore this that Garland Morgan was among the unfortunate casualties of the first few days after landing. Poor Morgie was a member of our company, and well liked by everyone. Only a couple of days before be was shot a party of us that were on the spot had to give a hand to bury some Australians and New Zealanders that were killed, and Morgie was one of the burial party. Little did he ken then that he soon would have a similar late. He was shot clean through the heart, probably by a sniper, while he was patrolling the cable line, and died almost immediately. Next day a parly from our company, myself Included, burled him along with three others. He had a very respectable burial; a lieutenantcolonel read the burial service. .... Mick Bates was left behind at the Abbasia Hospital, Cairo, when we left. He had rather a bad spin with sickness in Egypt. We had rather a good time sightseeing while in Cairo, but have been making up for it lately.” The letter also mentions that some of Morgan’s personal effects were being sent to his people in Hawera. Garland Morgan was also a friend of Sapper Fred. KentJohnston, eldest son of Mr C. J. Kent-Johnston, of Fox ton.