NEW ZEALAND GUNNER'S EXPERIENCE.
DEATH-ROLL PROBABLY 30 DUNEDIN, October 20. Gunner Webb, of Dunedin, who was attached to No. 2 Howitzer Battery, was on the torpedoed transport. In a letter to his father he says:—"l was in the boat which capsized; there were 57 men in the boat, eight above her full complement. The ship was torpedoed at 9.45* a.m., and we were picked up by a French torpedo boat at 2.15. Two torpedoes were fired, and one hit the .ship. The deck on which we were -sleeping was blown to matchwood, and several men were killed. The troops were orderly, but one of the crew in the boat was unnerved, and cut one of the 'falls,' and "so capsized the lot of us into the water. Only three of our crowd are missing, and the whole of the ship's death-roll will not reach 30."
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXV, Issue 8274, 20 October 1915, Page 6
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