SHRAPNEL AT SUVLA.

Taranaki Daily News, 26 October 1915, Page 6

SHRAPNEL AT SUVLA.

NEWS FROM SERGT. A, JENNINGS. , In a letter received here from All Saints' Convalescent Camp, Malta, dated August 18, Sergeant Alt. Jennings states that he had just heard from Sergt. Farrington, of his company, who had arrived wounded at Malta from Anzac, that his brother Edgar Jennings was killed in the trenches at Quinn's Post, Gaba Tepe, and that he was the last New Zealander killed there, as just after that Sergt. Farrington and the others left for the attack on Suvla Bay. Sergt. Farrington also said that Edgar Jennings had been promoted on the field, receiving his chevron as lance-eorporal a week before he was killed. Sergt. Jenniugs, in a further letter, dated August 29, writes that there was a medical examination that day, and he thought they would not be sent back to the Dardanelles, as nearly the whole of the Wellington Battalion that went away with the Main Expeditionary Force last year were out of action, from the colonel down to the rankers. Since the letters were written. Sergt. Jennings was invalided to England on September Ifi. From his letters, it is a marvel how anyone escaped the flying shrapnel and bullets that were always about.