NEW ZEALANDER’S AMAZING EXPERIENCES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 1448, 18 September 1915, Page 3

NEW ZEALANDER’S AMAZING EXPERIENCES.

WOUNDED THREE TIMES AND REPORTED DEAD.

, Another instance of the fortitude of-our men at Gallipoli comes from Private A. Pauline, of B. Company, Canterbury Infantry Battalion. Private Pauline, although suffering terrible pain from a wound in the right forearm, managed to keep in the firing line for several days, during which time he took part in a great charge with the Australians, until he was finally knocked out by a ballet Which struck him in the right thigh, severing one of the sinews behind the knee. He writes ; Yes, poor Colonel Machean Stewart died a noble death. He was directing the hoys’ lire with his walking stick when he was suddenly hit in the head., death being instantaneous. He only had about three hours’ life on the battlefield. 1 was hit in the right forearm just in front of the elbow joint after firing five shots. I was put out of action for about a quarter of an hour through my arm losing all power. ATJ. MY MATHS WKRK KIT.T.I-D OR WOUNDKI) BADL.Y. I had my legs, and gave it a go out to the left, and succeeded in getting to the position where the rest of our hoys were. Our line was cut, and we had to hang on like glue. We never retreated, which kept the Turks wondering how many we had behind us. They could have driven us out of the place if they had what runs through our veins. We hung on all night, and in the morning we were cut off again, and had to RUN TO TITK CKNTkIv UNURR HKAVV lOKK. I had the luck again to get across without slopping another. My arm by this time began to swell, and give me terrible pain. I got pushed over to the right as reinforcements, and I got in among the Australian boys, who were known as the “White Glunkas.” As I never answered the roll that night, I was reported dead. Little did they think it was possible for me to have dodged it all, as our company had lost heavily. Well, I was among the Australians lor over Monday and Tuesday, and the Wednesday morning we had to advance, and it was a great go. We hopped out of the scrubs and OrAt.UOt’KU AT Til KM with eyes and mouths open and yelling like madmen We routed them, and they made off like a mob of sheep being rounded up in the Gelds, and the boats played their part to perfection. They helped them on their wav, and heaved them into the air and over the cliff. It was just like a picture show, and I forgot about fighting, although the BUT.I.KTS WKRK I.ANDINIi AI,I, AROUND US. I can remember the boys ringing out to each other that if was- their shot. “I’ll fetch him down ! I’ll Domino him ! You missed, my go now !” and such like expressions, and I was enjoying the joke and laughing when I got another in the right thigh which has caused me some trouble, as it severed the big sinew behind the knee, and it also affected my knee. Well, I tried to get up. but. soon fell again, as I couldn’t stand on my leg, and I sat up with my arms spread out to support me, and I got another in the right hand between the two first fingers. God, man, I looked at it, and all sorts o! things tan through my mind, I thought I was a gone coon, but after a drink and a cigarette I WAS AS KimiT AS RAIN, and was helped down to the beach, where I was dressed and attended to by the Red Cross men who did great work. Well, I was put on hoard the boat, and after four days’ sail and all night in the train I was back in Heliopolis Palace Hospital, where I was seen to properly, and after a week or two I was transferred to No. 2 Hospital, and after five weeks there I was sent out to a convalescent home, where I put in for a fortnight, and I returned to camp as tit for duty, but I only did a week’s work when my leg broke out again, and I irAVKN’T DON/-; ANYTHING sincm. I had the option of going before the Board, but I was afraid I would be sent home, and of course, refused, and since then I have had a “crook” time with it, but I hope to be right again some day. I am lucky to be alive. I feel it very much as my comrades are gone, and never to be seen again. Well, I have done my bit, and hope I will soon be fit to go back and do some more, and have my revenge. I hope you are all well in New Zealand, and trust by the help of God I will return to New Zealand when all is over, and be able to meet you all, and have a gay time. I can look everybody in the face when I return.