OUR SICK AND WOUNDED,

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 14, 20 December 1915, Page 2

OUR SICK AND WOUNDED,

The following clipping from the current issue of tho War Cry may be of interest to many readers, especially those who have sick and wounded boys in the hospitals in Egypt;— Alexandria, Egypt, ‘27-10-15. Having been constantly engaged in visiting our New Zealand sick and wounded men in Alexandria since the beginning of May, perhaps a few lines will be acceptable and may encourage those very kind and liberal-hearted people who have so generously and graciously supplied the wherewithal with which to provide those necessary and so much-appreciated articles that are delivered personally to our men. Seeing so many thousands of wbunded men would, under ordinary circumstances,, tend„>to depress one, but seeing them in a spirit of cheerfulness makes the work so much easier. First of all the man’s needs are met, then after a little chat with him, we encourage him to write home and let his friends know just how he is. It is no difficulty afterwards to take up other topics of conversation which cause the patient to forget his suffering and. inconvenience, at least for a few minutes. They are a grand lot of fellows, and when'you have opportunities of seeing the man proving himself in circumstances such .as these, it makes you proud to be associated with them. You never hear a New Zealander or Australian complain about his having been wounded. His chief thought and topic of conversation seems to be: “I want to get into it again.” Brave “to the core, and happy in a sense of havipg done their little bit,” as they often put it. Doctors, nurses, and others frequently remark about our tine me*- and say how pleased they are to do their best far such, and the boys are so unselfish, bach willing to help the other; and the attitude is often noticed. Grand chaps! May it soon be their lot to get bapk to their ordinary associations and carry on the Empire in peace as they do in war, with a whole heart. ALFRED GREENE, Captain.