HIT THIRTY TIMES.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 231, 28 September 1915, Page 7

HIT THIRTY TIMES.

HDITHERN .^OLDIER , ? EXPERIENXE. Pnraie McDonald, write* from Abygi>ia Hospital, near Cairo, under date July 7Ui. lo his mother: — "The last letter I wrote to you »is from Lemnoa. the first base hospital, 50 miles from the Dardanelles, but since thru I bate born mtii here, as they had no Xr«)"s .there to cxamuic mc I had the X-ruy« on mc the other day, and the bnllrt was found lodged up undemeatn my .-honlilcr blade- a very awkward |»lan\ *hr *l»**tor &ays; he \s leaving it for v \vln!e Id *pc if it win work out a bit. "I will rxpl.iiu how I happened to get wounded: It »*■> ray turn to go on guard in tin- Irenchp*, and I had just romp nut of a »ap tlial led into it -*hen the Turk* threw over 11 bomb. It landed jiiHt at the back, and I did not know it we* there, ns thp others did not warn us. I hr-trd :iie others elearinp fur dear lifr. 1 turned round to see. what was thr matter, and 1 saw the bomb, just a few fee: from mc It wa« too late to do anything. *o I called out to the reet.i and they ail fell down nn their stom.vhu. mi: before I ?ot down It went off. with the result that I pot it In the bark. I manaprd to pet out of the trench, but did not pet f«J. for 1 foon dropped, and ■Kin taken to thp dre»»in;»-»ta.tinn just below. While they vere taking off my <Uothes 1 fiinWd, probably from loee of blo«>d, but they toon dreeeed the wound and carried mc down to the bench. Next morinnp I >n taken on to the hospital »hip, and was thprr four days, and then taken to Lpmno9. I wi» very bad. The pain «si« unbearable, bo they gave mc morphia, and I went to sleep, but when I wok<- up I wan »Kk. 1 was at Lcrnnos for over a week, and th<-n ient here. It take* two days to come from there to Alexandria, and four hours ia the train here. We ha:e ail New Zealand nurse* here, and they art- very jjood. I thought my nhoulder »v blown off when I f*ot it ; it ju«t fe!t Like it. or a< if jome one had driven a pirk in it. The hole is the «ize of v r>hillinp, and in verj- r ore. bin it is healing np nicely now "1 did not know what the horror of war »i« like until one nieht the Turku j ..iiin.-hi-.l an attack, and lost »eren I thousand. They were given eight hours to bury thejn. and thea I underatood. >ome had nn Irjrv no arms, and «ome •udre blown to pi<ve« It wa» a pitiful ttgkt. "■We, had a tim* it the Dardanelles We have done our work well. There i< on!;' one piace that stop* u», »a 1 that v called Aehi Baba. 750 ft hifrh. When that i* taken, it will take no time to jj'i throuch "Mr shoulder* are »r»rred. hut they ■ml! heal up !n all. I h*'-e Seen hit in I thirty different place., so I think I hare hai mr share "