LETTER FROM FATHER DORE.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1523, 16 March 1916, Page 3

LETTER FROM FATHER DORE.

In a letter to Mr P. G. Jackson, written from Loudon under date January 22nd, Captain Chaplain Father Core says : “You will see I have transferred my address to the fair metropolis. I am now in one 01 the most comfortable and cheery convalescent homes in London, and progressing very fairly. For the past week I have been doing some walking on crutches, and considering that the Turks paralysed me from the hips downward so that I could not even move a toe, I think 1 have done very well. The injury I received to my spine is now practically healed, but the sciatic nerve still bears the mark of its mutilation. My left leg is now free of paralysis and is growing quite strong, but the right loot so far refuses to yield to any entreaties to return to life. However, the case is not hopeless, the process of nerve restoration is very slow and I have every hope that it will come right in time. I have the advantage of the best specialists in London to visit me here when necessary, and if I don’t get full use of my members it will not be the fault of the R.A.M.C. lam hoping to be able to go to my home across the Irish Sea in about three months time, where I shall probably continue my treatment. Unless this war, which God forbid, continues for another year, I fear I shall not see further active service, much that I would like to see the campaign through with our brave New Zealanders. I have heard nothing of our Foxton boys on active service since I left the Peninsula. I hope they are alright. It is almost an impossibility to get news of any individual with the New Zealand forces. Don’t you think the N.Z, chaplains got a rough handling from the Turks ? One (Major Grant) killed, three were wounded (one of these, Major Luxford, lost his right leg above the knee), and the other two of the six original field chaplains were invalided to New Zealand- Please write and let me know how the parish and all old friends are.”