NEW ZEALAND

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIII, Issue 44, 21 October 1915, Page 5

NEW ZEALAND

—tQ*. A PRISONER IN TURKEY. GENERAL CODLEY'S TRIBUTE TO THE BRAVE. Per Press Association. Wanganui, October 21. A letter has been received here by a brother of Sergeant George McAneniy who is a prisoner of war in the hospital Militaire Maltepe at Constantinople dated August 20. He says: 1 have had the bad luck to get wounded and captuied. Our boys took the trench and got cut up and the trench was retaken by the Turks. 1 got wounded by a bomb which burst m the trench. J was hit twice in the upper left arm. twice in the forearm, and once in left hand from which a piece of the bomb has now been extracted after being in eleven days, dining which I suffered awful agony. The other wounds are nearly healed and now O.K. It was the hottest corner T was ever in. A dozen shells rolled into one. The trench was a shambles and filled to the top with dead and dying lying, three and four deep. 1 never want to see anything like it any... more when I saw the ganiest boys in the world go down at dawn that morning. We are being treated well and the wounded are well cared for." The letter came through the Switzer-

land Red Cross. General Godley writes to Colonel Hughes praising the gallantry of the troops and says it js impossible to find in military history anything -finer than the night march of the Wellington Mounted Rifles 'through desperate scrub covered country on the 6th August and rushing the Turkish pickets as thev went or the assault of the Wellington Infantry Battalion on the Chunuk Bair heights on the morning of August £ General Godlev adds: "We are woefully depleted in numbers at present, the Infantry Brigade being only 1200 instead of 4000 and the Mounted 400 instead' of 2000."

HOSPITAL AND. PROGRESS REPORT. NEW ZEALAND EXPEDITIONARY FORCE. Canterbury Mounteds. Embarked for England. Trooper R, P, Oppenheim. Canterbury Battalion. '■' Returned to Egypti Private R. Carroll. Embarked for England. v.. Private G.' J, Poulterv Private W. Rowe. 1 Canterbury Battalion. Private M. Mennaglo. Private T. Mitchell." j Wellington Battalion. Rejoined Regiment, Private J. E. Long. Discharged from Hospital. Private K. Matbeson. Field Engineers. Embarked for England. Sapper D. Jenkins.,!

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