"HE DID HIS DUTY."

Taranaki Daily News, 5 November 1915, Page 3

"HE DID HIS DUTY."

HOW CHAPLAIN'-MAJOR GRANT FELL. Mr. G. T. Bull, secretary of Abercorn Lodge, Gisborne, has received particulars of the death of Chaplain-Major Grant from Sapper C. E. Stevens, formerly of the Public Works Department at Gisborne. Writing from the Dardanelles under date September 0, Sapper Stevens states: — "A peculiar position arose as one trench was held conjointly by Australasians and Turks, divided only by a sandbag barricade, over which bombs were continually hurled by both parties ) with the result that there were, of course, casualties on both sides. Bro. Grant had apparently heard that one of the boys was either killed or wounded there, so with a medical man went round there, not knowing that the Turks Held a portion. The result was that the enemy fired at him, killing him instantly, I believe. The pity of it is that, had they asked, anyone in that section could have told them that the Turks were in possesion. Service was read over our brother's remains bv Chaplain-Cap-tain W. L. Blamires, of Trinity Church (Methodist), Wanganui. who has asked some of his boys (the Canterbury Mounted Rifles, I think), to make a wooden cross and a nice tidy grave, Our brother rests 011 a little flat in the middle of some foothills about half to three-quarters of a mile from where lie fell, and I would give a great deal for just one sprig of that Emblem which is so well deserved in his case, for all men must say 'He did his duty.'"