STRIKING TRIBUTE TO BRAVE MEN.

Press, Volume LI, Issue 15338, 23 July 1915, Page 9

STRIKING TRIBUTE TO BRAVE MEN.

BY AN AMBULANCE OFFICER

Writing from , '•somewhere in Europe," to a friend in Hastings, Captain Ernest Boxer, of tho New. Zealand Field Ambulance, Expeditionary Forces, says: ' ; No words'of miuo can sufficiently express the admiration I have for the -intense pluck and* perseverance of our . New Zealand men. and of the Australians, too! They have taken nearly impossible positions, but at a loss terrible to realise, and worse to have witnessed. This is very like Spion Kop, only lhoro so, and I trust that as Spion Kon remains as a memory, so will New Zealand never fortcet how her troops fought for and (rained a footing on "the Peninsula. A word, too as to tho spirit in which those who were woimded n;et their troubles. I have seen ghastly things— terrible wounds, and disfigurements. 1 bave seen wounded men who were fortyeight, and even seventy-two, hours on outposts and unable to bo succoured. I have seen *nie.n dying in agony and dosed their sad. wan eyes, but out of all the horror of it arises a great piory in the very suffering: that New Zealand can find has produced —and will ret produce—such noble heroes, who differ and rli o without one murmnr. Hrave little land of ours ! She has inleed done what she could, and, sealed ier bond of Empire with her rich red ?lood. Honour the*heroes of our re«nnents when they return ; forerrc their >.ult.s (onlr relative after all), and let he land and feel the personal debt t owes them.' .