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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2724, 20 March 1916, Page 5

Trooper Francis J. 6. _ Moore, of Johasonville, writing to his father, after seven days' ride along the banks of the Suez Oanal, says: "Tom Fawcett was shot on the eve of the final evacuation *f Anzac. His daring bravery cost him his life. He exposed nimself to fire on a front Turkish trench, and a sniper got him. It' was hard to lose my dearest- mate. My cousin, Oscar Hughes,'is back from England quite recovered. His regiment is guarding the canal. Wo . passed them on our long ride out from Cairo.".

Liout. Simons was O.C. at the last parade ofthe Hutt and Potone Railway Section or the National Reserve. ; The instructor, Sergfc. Bland, supervised some useful work, after which nfio practice was held. There was a good muster of members for the practical demonstration of bridge-buildins which took place on Saturday at tho Woollen Mills' Gully. Scrgt. Bland instructed the platoon thoroughly in the art of throwing a bridge over the Koro Koro Stream, and members showed much enthusiasm in the work.

The British commander who is Sblated by the Turks at Kut-el-Amaro, in Mesopotamia, Major-Gcneral Charles Vere Ferres Townshend, is the heir presumptive to the Marquisate of Townshend. He is the great-great-grandson of the George Townshend _ who fought with such glory at the Heights of Abraham in 1759, where he commanded (he British left under Wojfe. He has a wonderful record of service, beginning with the Koyal Marine Infantry, in which ho made tho Nile Expedition. He was then transferred to the Indian Army and distinguished bimsolf by defending Chitral with splendid tenacity, a quality which' he has since displayed at Kutrel-Amara. In every one of his past six campaigns ho was mentioned in dispatches. |He is not of the "strong-silent-man" tvpa. but is described by onn who knows him wel las "a good, shrewd, and studious soldier." So is 54 years of age, and married in 1898 the daughter of a French noble, Connt Louis Cahen d'Anvers. -