BRAVE DEEDS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIII, Issue 38, 14 October 1915, Page 7

BRAVE DEEDS.

CARDIFF MAN’S GOOD WORK. stirring STORY SIMPLY TOLD.| “It was in tho taking of Chanakj Bair, otherwise known as Hill 971 J The sun was scorching, and we had no water,” writes Private C. 11. Bar-j kor, oi Cardiff, to Air Don Cameron, 1 manager of tho Cardiff Factory, under idate 2dlh August, from Pont de Kouhbch Hospital, Cairo, Egypt. “Some ■of the men were lying over the hank with their tongues hanging out asking lor water, and it was not sale to g„ for it on account of snipers. Well, about A p.m., I said to Woods: 1 am going for water, got or not. “Weil,” he said, “good luck to you.” 1 took twelve bottles, including Colonel Alalone’s. 1 had about a mile"to walk for water, and when I !g„t back the Colonel said, “You’re a brick.” 1 am .sorry to say he was killed by a shell about ten minutes afterwards. He was a good man. W e w mo relieved that night, and 1 carried a cobber down to tho dressing station, and had some mm and a teed of bully and biscuits. Next morning they called lor a volunteer to guide a j fresh lot of English troops to the firing line. Nobody spoke, so 1 said; “Id I go v, hen i have had this drink of tea,” and the olTteer said: “ I hey are waitin,, l„r ’.on,” so 1 gave my tea away and went. 1 started away with two platoons of North Laucashires. W r ell, 1 got to the bring line with ten less, w ho had got killed or wounded on the way. f don’t know how 1 missed it, and never wil.. There were not many New Zealanders left holding the hill, about a 100. t stopped in the trenches a while, and then made off down the: gully to where the wounded were and| crave them water and any assistance Xj could until dark. They could not get out in the daylight, so the stretcherbearers had to work all night. I also, carried a chap out ol there who was j shot through the right knee and the left ankle. 1 strained my hack slight-1 l y . Uu Tuesday night another chap | and I were going out to have a lookj and see if we could get stretchers out, to the wounded, but we had gono j about half way when an English officer! shot my mate dead without warning,, and turned on me and asked me whoj I W as. I soon let him know. 1 gave him a bit of my mind and reported him, but have not heard how he got on. Next morning they paraded our company preparatory to drafting out the Fifth Reinforcements to their different Companies, and they read out what had been going on in other parts of the firing line, and to my surprise they told the parade that I had been doing good work, and 1 was promoted to Corporal, and it is rumored that there is something to follow, but i don’t think so.