PRISONERS IN CONSTANTINOPLE.
WEIJ, TREATED BY: TURKS. ! .WAN.GANUI, October 21,. A letter to lii.s brother sent by Sergeant George McAnemy, who is a prisoner of war at the Hospital Militaire, Maltepe, in Constantinople, dated Aixgust 20; says:—"l have had the bud luck to get wounded and captured. Our boys took a trench, but- got cut up, and the trench was', retaken^ :by!the; Turks:l';;!, .■gp't.;1 ':. i;''boml!y. which' bjiu-st jjti;«\i;-hb;,tf^ncH'.; 3«d;i jbit '.me; ;twiice'/;.;'; I • stiff er^f-. JiaMu'^;ia^b^^:b^t^fche, wounds :ai>o. • iieaHyt heated arid 'i I- :aih now O.K. ""The .trench was a shambles, filled to the top with dead and dying lying threo and four deep. I never want to see anything like it any more. I saw the gamest boys in the world go down at dawn that morning. We aro being ,treated well" and the wounded are well; cared for.' 1 The letter came through .the S\rifeekland .R«d rCross.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXV, Issue 8276, 22 October 1915, Page 6
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