PRISONERS IN TURKEY

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1545, 2 May 1916, Page 4

PRISONERS IN TURKEY

AN INTERESTING LETTER

Mr C. \\. Palmer, secrclarv of Ihe Wellington Branch of the Navy League, has . been handed a letter received by Mrs Wilson J roni Mrs Gertrude Cochrane. Nlrs Wilson’s son, Loading Stoker Archibald Wilson, origitraining ship H.M.S. Pioneer, and afterwards he was selected to go to England to complete his training. Eventually he was posted to the Australian submarine E2, and I hen to E 7. The latter, after very successful operations undertaken with great daring , under Lieut.Commander Cochrane, went ashore and the crew, including Wilson, were made prisoners of war. In the course of the letter, Mrs Cochrane says : “I am afraid it must take a long time for letters to reach you from your son. 1 heard on 2-ith December from Lieut.-Commander Cochrane, dated 2nd December : “All well and cheerful—weather very fine, with frosts at night’. They are in a high, healthy part of Asia Minor. New regulations have just come for addressing letters. Your address should be : Name of prisoner, from Submarine E 7, British Prisoner of War in Turkey, c/o the International lied Cross Committee, Geneva, Switzerland. I hope that soon we will be able to get parcels through to them. I think they have got all actual necessities, as money has been sent out for the use of the crew, but they must want books and games, and a parcel from home they would like so much.” Mi's Wilson, who is a widow, sixty years of age, has two other sons serving the Empire. W. Wilson went from New Zealand with the 7th Reinforcements, and J, Wilson joined the A.I.F. at Brisbane, and is now in a London hospital recovering from wounds.