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Evening Post, Volume XCV, Issue 140, 13 June 1918, Page 6

A letter received to-day from Staff Sergt. -Major Tuckey, of Wellington, wllo was yesterday reported as dangerously ill from wounds, gives an account of one of the experiences at the front. He writes as follows:—"Some days ago we had the unpleasant experience^ of having a shell land on the dug-out, iSnd one of our number, one oi the best men in the force, was killed. The dug-out was built close to the bank in an old ohalk pit, and although Fritz had put hundreds of shells round about he had never actually hit the place. On the day he did hit it, it was the last shell of the bombardment. Only that morning the chap who was killed had remarked that a shell would have to have a man's name and number engraved on it to get him in the dug-out. The place had fifteen bunks in it, and was exceptionally strongly built, and we felt as safe as possible there. However, a six-inch howitzer shell hit the place immediately above my friend's head, and the explosion blew in the end of the place, and killed liim immediately, buried me in debris, and the rest of us were simply dazed with the shock, and very shaky jforra jbi4. Jmt othepwise..f«fe..'-