A LOST DETACHMENT

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 150, 29 June 1925, Page 14

A LOST DETACHMENT

STRANGE STORY OF GALLIPOLI.

In a footnote in vol. 2 of the "Official History of Australia, in the War," Mr. Bean relates an incident which is interesting. He writes :—"lt was not known at--the time that a remnant of the sth Wiltshire had, on being driven from Chunuk Bair, sought shelter lower down the miinr V T ithHhem' Was One of their sIVZ ''ri ad beeh"*hot through the O1 *i ey aPPear-not to have known wards lh cV VOr?/ ™d onp- limbing towaids the A Tew Zealand trenches on Ehododendron was shot either by^his own , f L°i. bJ'f f.' c enemy- Consequently for of ?W"? « tlley->^y hidden in th^ depths \ ttlhV+y-, T? ter V-aa-obtained from sicks g Th £°1 m d°ad men's haver" »Lm 7°* sh P;ltrols twice' came "i el"' .^ d ' ac u cordi»S to the survivors, oZ 1 ci' f, h°0t nor take the« ?™- ---■?h™ . °D the seconti owadon-gave S l? er^ tM- On the other hLd, ■ Th! ake a rush dow° the villey f f .-BuiLieutenant Mervyn Hig,gins,.lookmg through hisV'gl^.obsei' veci > -Those men have no arms' There wmA S- llttle doubt that, they were the Wiltshires, and that they %ere after! rTrh« w^- i;Gaptain J- W. Greany^ ••■LS.K r^ Jlta>]res» with ..New. Zealand nv"olher^: tW° mghts they ™«c«d,the'