Australia

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2, 31 August 1915, Page 6

Australia

TOTAL CASUALTIES NEARLY 15,000. U United Pkess Association. Sydney. August 30. The last published list brings the Australian casualties at the Dardanelles to 14,926, made up of:—Killed: Officers 226 i men 2663. Wounded : Officers \IS2, men 10,628. Missing: Officers 33, men 894. The one hundred and twenty-first list includes:-Killed in action: One officer and six men. Died of wounds and illness: Eleven officers and fortyeight moil, including Private C, Greaves (a New Zealancler). Wounded: Eigh-j teen officer.s and's46 men, including Corporal Hickson' (second occasion and' in hospital at Che/.ireh), Privates YVY' Grainger, T. Livingstone. W. Camp-j bell. W. -Smith. W. Cosgrove (second] occasion).''H. Weir, Sergeant A. Lau- ( cher (in hospital at Heliopolis), Privates J. McGlone, and C. S. Todd (New Zealanders). Ill: Thirty-two, including Private D. Ordade (in hos-J pital at Alexandria). Missing: Four, officers.

The* Hororata brought 130 wounded New South Welshmen and 30 Queenslanders, the former including Private Pobson, the first Australian Distinguished Conduct Medallist. In the face of Turkish fire he brought in a box of ammunition and the water-bot-tles of thirty-four men who fell between the trenches. Subsequently he, lone Handed, shot thirteen Turks in an adjacent trench. The Australia Day Fund now stands at £650,000/