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♦ » if MEX FROM EGY'PT AXD MESOPOTAMIA. y Duucdin, Oct. 11. .s file I'aloona, which arrived to-day, )E brought thirty-five soldien back. Most s of the men had seen service in Egypt only, but some had been to fiallipoli, and" two were with the Mesopotamia!) expeditionary force. Only two were cot cases, and moat of the men showed little outward trace of their experiences The cot cases are: ]>ilvor Brown (Westport), badly wounded in leg (mentioned in dispatches I, and Private T, B Wallace (Wellington). Sappers Middleton and lioveridge, who were attached as wireless- operators to Divisional Headquarters, Indian Expcdi•fl tionarj Force in Mesopotamia, broke e down aa a result of the climate One of tliem stated that out of his section n ot sixty-one men only twenty-nine were n lit for duty. n The men were accorded a reception this afternoon, and the northern soldiers leave by the I'aloona to-morrow.
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Taranaki Daily News, 13 October 1916, Page 5
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154HOME FROM THE WAR. Taranaki Daily News, 13 October 1916, Page 5
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