PATUMAHOE

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 6, Issue 314, 28 September 1917, Page 4

PATUMAHOE

By the last mail Mr Joseph Henry, of Patumahoo, received a letter from ! Pte. E. J. Hesketh, dated July 13th, | written a few days before he (Pte. : Hesketh) was killed in action. Prior I to his enlistment Pte Hesketh residfed at Patumahoo and was well- ] known locally as "The Doctor." In ! the course of his letter he narrates the exciting times he and others on ' his transport had on noaring Eng- • land, when they were attacked by a submarine which, howevef, was sunk by a destroyer. They did not, he said, realise their danger at all, but watched the light with excitement and eyen amusement. Refer- " ing to his later experiences in the : trenches, Pte. Hesketh detailed the r continued shelling by the Germans ! and of narrow escapes ho had had | frail death. In concluding he menj tinned that his thoughts were often ! (if Patumahoo.