AN AUSTRALIAN IN EGYPT.

Clutha Leader, Volume XLII, Issue 87, 9 May 1916, Page 8

AN AUSTRALIAN IN EGYPT.

U.N EN VIABLE EXPERIENCES. Probably few Australians have had a worse expeninio m Eg>pt than Sergeant Cntforde Hunieon, late of the Field Ambulance Brigade, and that he is alive to tell the tale seems a matter of providence, two of his companions having been killed (stall's tlu- "Sydney Morning Herald ). On January 15 Sergeant ixanleon, hav.ng In en invalided front Gallipoli last year w.th i nteric, was in charge of the, postal department of the Enteric and Areinan Refugee Camp in Port Said. On the lr.glu <>' January 15—a Saturday—he had closed up the post olfi o and landed over the keys prior to embark'ng the following day ior Australia as a convalescent. He intended going dmvn will a considerable sum of money to the cable office to cable to Ati-t aba. and had already sent, two orderlies to headquarters with a quantity of registered mail. Shortly alter leaving the office lie was set upon bv three natives and sandbagged. They knocked him down, and finding that ho wis shouting for help kicked him into insensibility. All but two of his teeth were kicked out, and several ribs were broken, besides his face being almost unrecognisable for blood and bruises. The natives then commenced to drag him to a canal close by, but an Armenian woman some distance off having given the alarm they fled. The bodies of the two orderlies who had gone on some time before, and both of whom were Imperial men. we'.'e found in the canal the next day, with their throats cut. Sergeant Hanleon regained consciousness two days later, and remained in the 91st General Hospital, Port Said, for a lew weeks, after which ho was invalided ba"k to Australia. The three natives were eventually caught, but none of the money was recovered. One of them was sentenced to death and the others received long terms of imprisonment. While in Gallipoli Sergeant Han'cm got some small pieces of shrapnel in his lower lip and is now undergoing operations hjpre for their complete removal.