NEIL'S DISPENSARY.

Digger (Invercargill RSA), Issue 20, 30 July 1920, Page 3

NEIL'S DISPENSARY.

(By Exam.), Manager.

Billy Popgun.

0 II. BROWN, Prescription Chemist,

political career. Then we reached a srpali passage-way, where we had a deal of delay and where his shells did not miss us by much. I could see, for miles, the perfect artillery formation of the diggers .coming up to go through the first waves when they shortly settled down. Down we went, through a small brushland and creek, where. every oue -was wetted to the knees trying to jump the obstruction ; and hereabouts we lost our sergeant — Jim Bain, of Waikato — who was wounded, but is safe, I understand. Good old Jim ! A true sport, and with the battery since December 1916. Then we crossed the railway, and saw what a mess Fritz's answering barrage had here made. We had to diverge from the direct line of advance into the next big paddock, and make a wide detour to avoid a crest of which he was making a howling mess. We had just crossed a sunken road when he landed a shell on a spot about thirty yards fn front of us. Thinking to get pasl, went for their lives ; but another shell came, exactly over the mark where the previous one landed and where we ap. parently had just reached. It killed Ewing Riddell of the team, from Te Kuiti (a fine man a great pal), and Ken Larking, late of Victoria College, Wellington, and one of the carriers loaned by the company. 'Ted Murray (corporal), our team's excellent five-eight, was badly wounded in the leg ; and I got mine in the groin . Finish Stokes gun team ! After Jerry's barrage was over — a good one for about a further threequarters of an hour — they used all the Hun prisoners (four to a stretcher) to carry out our wounded. A great plan, this, Ehoa, as they took the boys out in great style. They tell me the Dinks suffered heavily again. Poor old Dinks! The Jerry hearers j worked well and were kind in their handling. I believe another gun team, covering Wellington, was smashed up ; Les Mason, of Masterton (a Pvuahine boy), was killed. He malces another fine threequarter gone from the Rugby team — and a good soldier.