Lajice-Corporal Frank E. Ballard, one of the employees o£ the Wellington Gas Company, Limited, who was recently killed in action, was in charge of a bay in. a. trench that was being "strafed" by the Huns, who were making a raid on it. Ballard ordered the man who was observing down from the parapet, and took the post himself, and was almost instantly killed by machine-gun fire. One of Ballard's comrades, writing, states that not one of the Hun raiding party got back to their own tranches. With the exception, of one' who was taken prisoner, the raiders were wiped out by the New Zoaknders' bombs, machine .-aim. jaaadaa'UUess fir e .
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Evening Post, Volume XCII, Issue 100, 25 October 1916, Page 7
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111Page 7 Advertisements Column 1 Evening Post, Volume XCII, Issue 100, 25 October 1916, Page 7
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