AFTER 21 YEARS.
CALL!POLI RESCUE RECALLED. (Per Press Association.) PALMERSTON NORTH, Sept. 4. The man who, by generously giving him a water bottle when he was injured at Gallipoli and probably saved his life, was met to-day after 21 years by Mr Clutha McKenzie, director of the New Zealand Institute for the Blind. This man is Mr John Francis Nolan, of Rongotea. It was on August 6, 1915, that Mr Nolan, working his way down from Rhododendron Ridge with a bullet through a foot and another through a knee discovered Mr McKenzie at the bottom of a gully with a pair of binoculars lying near. “Hullo, Mac. You’ve lost your glasses,” said Mr Nolan, and Mr McKenzie’s reply was: “I will not bo needing them any more.” His eyes had been injured by a bursting shell. Mr Nolan then offered Mr McKenzie bis water bottle. When Mr McKenzie mot Mr Nolan to-day ho expressed his gratitude, declaring that but for this act of comradeship lie would probably not have got out alive. A further bond was established when it was discovered that each had a son at the Wanganui Collegiate School.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 56, Issue 278, 5 September 1936, Page 6
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191AFTER 21 YEARS. Ashburton Guardian, Volume 56, Issue 278, 5 September 1936, Page 6
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