"DIED A HERO."
A'L'CK LAXDEE'S BRAVERY. In a letter written from Cairo to a ] relative in Auckland, Corporal (!. F. | Wilson, of tlie 3rd (Auckland) Regi- ; meat, says: " [ hope some of the shirkers will join. We will want all tlm men that you can send. I have had the l>i«l hick to stop a bullet. Shrapnel got me in tlie left arm and broke it. This wag on the thirteenth day of fighting, and on 1 a, Friday. I always dreaded 13's and Fridays. It will be. quite six weeks before I ran get at them again. I fluked some of the I Ministers down on tlie. beach with a, doctor, who fixed 1110 up, and I v t sent in a naval cutter to a hospital ship. " Syd Ileald died a hero, under a hail of bullets, when he went to the assistance of Lieutenant 'T. B. McFarlane, one of our .officers, who was shot in five places. When lie had the wounded officer halfway back, he lurched forward dead. There is some sort of merciful influence at work that stops a man from tliinkini.tr of all the mates that have gene. We all notice it. "Norman Levien 'is at Alexandria in the ordnance store."
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Taranaki Daily News, 2 July 1915, Page 8
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