RAID ON HUN TRENCHES.
KAPIER MAX'S EXPERIENCE. Writing from the 2nd London Cencral hospital, Chelsea, Private F. Merritt, who is confined there with pleurisv, tells a liieml in Napier of a raid he was in as under: "There were 70 of us and we raided the Hun trenches and got nine prisoners and killed 32—not so bad. Well, I never killed any, but I bagged a prisoner, so I accounted for one. We had nine wounded and one killed. _ "It was owing to this raid that I am in hospital. I got wet through. We had to stand in water up to our waists while the bombardment tool: place and every shell that came ov/r and landed •within 20 yards made us duck some. "Well, we got to the lines, spent a few minutes in the Hun trench and 1 got a prisoner and off bank with him. and on the way back I fell in a ditchj and went right under, rifle and all. "The prisoner did not try to escape—there were too many around. "I was told oh" as prisoners' guard and did not get my wet clothes off for five hours." He also states that they were very well treated in London. ' ' Private Merritt went away with the Ist Battalion Lord Liverpool's Own.
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Taranaki Daily News, 7 September 1916, Page 6
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216RAID ON HUN TRENCHES. Taranaki Daily News, 7 September 1916, Page 6
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