COLLEGIANS IN THE RANKS.
PROFESSOR AS MAJOR. HAND-TO-HAND FIGHT. 1 DASH AND BRAVERY. Dunedin, Monday. Sergean.t R, 11. Livingstone, of Canterbury College, was a crack forward and runner of considerable promise. 'lt is probably a result of his hard training on the football field that, although twice wounded, he is now looking as fit as a [ fiddle. lie went with the main body, and had hardly arrived at Gallipoli before he was shot in the top of the head, and back lie went to Alexandria After a month in hospital he returned to the firing line, where he spent four months. It was in tile big drive early In August that he received his second wound. He was shot in the shoulder at daybreak, and beside him lay Lieut. R A. R. Lowry, an old Boys' High School and Canterbury College clium, and a son of the Rev. S. Lowry, the well-known Baptist minister. Although wounded himself, Lowry looked after his friend, who was, as he put it himself, "in a bit of a mess." Finally, they got down to the shore, and Sergeant Livingstone came back on the Willochra. The platoon of I the Canterbury battalion to which Sergeant Livingstone belonged, was composed largely of Canterbury College and other university men, and was led by Lieutenant Stewart, formerly professor of classics at the college, who relinquished his position to go to the war. "He did lead us, and no mistake," said Sergeant Livingtone. ''Whenever we charged lie was in front. I remember seeing him having a hand-to-hand go with one big Turk, and a hard go it was. The professor—l mean, the lieutenantemptied his revolver without putting the Turk out. Then they went on with anything they could get. The lieutenant finally settled the Turk." Major Stewart, as lie now is, was conspicuous for his dash and bravery amongst men who were all full of dash. And Sergeant Livingstone admitted, without wishing to boast, that his platoon also were never to he found under cover when they should have been in the open. It is illustrative of the rapidity of promotion at the Dardanelles, in the case of a good man, that a soldier who went away as lieutenant should now be a major, and in comand of the Otago Infantry Battalion, for that is Major Stewart's present position. When Colonel Bauehop, whose praise was sung by men from all over the Dominion was wounded, Captain Moore, D.5.0., took over command of the battalion. Captain Moore was subsequently wounded, and invalided to England, and the Otago Battalion wag then placed under command of Captain Stewart, who was given his majority,
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Taranaki Daily News, 10 November 1915, Page 2
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