A BATTLE PICTURE.

Taihape Daily Times, 17 July 1918, Page 6

A BATTLE PICTURE.

"How can they ever hope to beat men of this type?" inquires a London correspondent, referring to the following, "battle sent home from the recent fighting by an eyewitness : —■

"Although wounded in the head — shells bursting everywhere—and starting to make his way toward the dressing station (his NO.O. after hiin for orders), he turned and came back. It was to find the little dog he had rescued fve days before nearly dead with fright, and which had stuck to him all through the 'warmest' places ever since. The next I saw of him was a blood-stained rag round his head and the blessed pup tucked under his arm going off rather uncertainly to have his wound dressed, and after that, I hear, he walked five miles to headquarters to report before being conveyed down to the base hospital where he now lies."