PERSONAL.
A cable received yesterday in Stratford from Private Bob Woods states that he is lit and well.
Friends of Mr J. Sheehan and family will regret to hear that cabled news was received yesterday to the effect that Private Tom Sheehan was “seriously ill” in hospital in Birmingham.
Mr F. A. Dunlop of the Waitara Presbyterian Church, will conduct the services in St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church on Sunday. The Rev. ,J. Pattison goes to Waitara to conduct the Anniversary Services with the Church.
Two brothers of Mr J. Mills, ol the Empire Hotel, Stratford, arc lighting for their Empire and home. From latest accounts, Private Frank Mills, was in France and the other, Private Sam Mills, was wounded and an occupant of the Ist Australian General Hospital. Heliopolis. To quote a letter from the wounded man: While we were advancing at the Dardanelles, I got “potted” in the back. . . • 1 managed to wriggle hack to the trench, where I had to lie for 30 hours before 1. could be taken away. However, 1 had some water in my bottle, and so I pulled through.—Private Sam Mills, whose parents live in Heywood, Lancashire, England, where he was in the Post Office, had been acting as wireless operator at Ismalia in connection with the Royal Engineers, and was recalled from this woik to go out with the battalion to the Dardanelles. Private Frank Mills is now in the Flying Corps,
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 65, 16 July 1915, Page 4
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239PERSONAL. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 65, 16 July 1915, Page 4
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