A REMARKABLE CAREER.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIII, Issue 21, 23 September 1915, Page 2

A REMARKABLE CAREER.

KILLED AT CALLIPOLI. It has v been officially reported that Sergeant Patrick Joseph Walsh was killed in action (state-, the Sydney Daily Telegraph.) He vas :i son of Mr Patrick Walsh, Ben Lomond, and was 30 years of age. He had a remarkable career. When quite a chill he bad his right leg .almost torn off by a dog. A few years later he was badly scalded on the same leg. In the space of two years Walsh was bitten seven times by venomous snakes, was run over by a steel roller a ton weight, and hovered at death's door with a severe attack of iuteritis. Hi spent two years in the auefiehls at} Mackay. Queensland, -here he joined the mounted police. &e wanted trt go |o Thursday Island, Sit wa* refund, ahd resigned. Walsh went to New Zealand, where he enlisted.- He'was two months in the firing line, and was promoted to the rank ol sergeant, lit. was killed in the four days' battle, in which the New Zealanders were engaged. He was a splendid horseman and a fine rifle shot, and a member of the Glen Innes Club.