NEW ZEALANDERS AT THE FRONT.

Press, Volume LIX, Issue 11279, 21 May 1902, Page 7

NEW ZEALANDERS AT THE FRONT.

(special to "the _?B_SS.") DUNEDIN, May 20. Dr. O'Neill, of the Sixth Contingent, pays a high tribute to Captain Fred Tucker,., of Ashburton, who had formerly been a,_ul>aCtern, in the Third Contingent. He joined the Sixth in Africa, having been wounded at Rhenoster Eap while with the Third, and had very trying experience,, being left on the field the whole day and half the night. Capfafe Tucker was one of the most popuof the column, and had charge of the Otago men, who would have followed him anywhere. . Dr..O'Neill described the captain as having a pa_6ic_l_}*ly good eye for country,, and as being conspicuous for ability, both in camp dud in the field. Lieut. C. Orbell, in conveying the news of the'sad disaster to the mother'bf CorSoral Whitehead, who was injured in the [aoh_vie' railway accident, in a letter dated Klerk-dorp,'April 13th, wrote_--"White-head, my corporal, is, I am sorry to ___y, ig a very low state, being crushed internally. It. was a marvel how we managed to dome out alive. I cannot say enough for the poor 'fellow. He was one of bay' best men. When I pulled him out from amongst the rest ol our comrades) the first words he" said to mc were,"lt is hard luck, 'sir.' It was a noarv-l how he esc_]*_d, the whdLe ten trucks being-smashed ._i> splinters." White-' head afterwards succumbed to his injuries."