A DEAD MAN'S DIARY.
jerivn.tr; T, TMf;nktrl!o'.r, of {he i\r?i, Colds"! ream?, who was af'.erwnrfls killed at IVlr.gPitionini!"!, wii!in;r home on November 21, aficr df-scri!>i}-.g ih> Battle of 8.-huont, say? :— ' One of o=-.r men was wounded in [wo places, :uul while l>ein& dre:-n*-d a bull; t passed right throurih his head. Another man was saved by the sho'- striking haif-a--crown in his pockeA At ai:Otl:er time 1 just, had the order to get down uhc-n a shot passed over my head ; a moment later in get ting down, ond k would have been through my i-'omaoh.'
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Clutha Leader, Volume XXVI, Issue 1376, 16 February 1900, Page 6
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96A DEAD MAN'S DIARY. Clutha Leader, Volume XXVI, Issue 1376, 16 February 1900, Page 6
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