WOUNDED NEW ZEALANDERS.
SOME MEN COMING HOME. INCAPACITATED FROM SERVICE. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Wellington, Last Night. The Minister for Defence informed a pressman this afternoon fiat some of the men wounded in the early stages of the Dardanelles fighting were returning to the Dominion by a transport which is now on the way to this country. The men were suffering from wounds of a character likely) to incapacitate thcra from service" for some time at least. Soldiers likely to bo ready to return to the front 'within a reasonable period had gone to the hospitals nearer the scene of the fighting. Hospital acommodation would be available for the returned wounded, added the Minister, hut he assumed that most of them would prefer to go to their own homes. If they were sufficiently recovered to be able to do so, ,they would want to be with their own relatives.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 315, 15 June 1915, Page 4
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148WOUNDED NEW ZEALANDERS. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 315, 15 June 1915, Page 4
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