HOW AUSTRALIANS FACE DEATH.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIII, Issue 7, 7 September 1915, Page 6

HOW AUSTRALIANS FACE DEATH.

"PLL DIE CAME." ' * l .'' ' ' }!< THREE WEST AUSTRALIAN HEROES. A private letter from Corporal M'Larty, Stli Battery, formerly of the A.M.P., Perth, thus- pathetically describes the deaths of Sergeant M. Taylor, Douglas Lennard, of /ePrth, and Stanley Carter, son of a Fremantle councillor, at the Dardanelles:— "When the srnqke from the bursting shell had cleared away. Wallis ran up to see the damage. Ho found Midi Taylor crawling and dazed. Bill said : 'Are you badly hit, Mick?' 'No Bill,' he tsaid, T am only scratched. Look after Doug, and Stan.' We subsecpientJy found he was wounded in 14 places. Bil) Wallis then picked up Doug. Lennard. The poor lad had one arm off, one leg shattered at the thigh, and was internally wounded. K'e said: •I'm done. Look after -Mick and Stan; don't mind me.' Carter was leaning on a gun. He had q fearful wound in his side. He said: I'm sorry I'm moaning; 1 know it will upset the others; but I can't help it— I can't help it.' He died, poor lad, almost immediately. His last words were, 'Did they get the gun?' "Doug, was in fearful agony, but kept saying, "I'm dying; but, by Cod, I'll die game.' He lingered for two hours. Tt was a .terribly pitiful thing to watch. His last words were: 'I died at the gun, didn't If And so he went. . . . "We buried the dear lads side by side at midnight. It was a real soldier's burihl. The minister's voice wa.s drowned in the crack of bullets whistling overhead, and thus we left them." . - '