OUR SOLDIERS’ LETTERS.

Greymouth Evening Star, 27 September 1917, Page 5

OUR SOLDIERS’ LETTERS.

JIItUTIIKKS IN AUMS

IvHO.M I,!El’l'.

Writ in K (■> 111- Veil. An-lidoae-m Yni'k from Avon Tv roll Hospital oil 291 h .July, 1 Jeul. AH'. Amlivws stales liis loot lier, Corp. Jim Aml rows, ivus wounded the same day as Alt {i'll' June), the first day at Messines. I'onr davs later Jim died. the letter adds;

“As far as .! can learn lie was yen' badly knocked about, by a shell and lay nut all ni"hl, beinj; brought in by the stretcher bearers, which would rob him of his chance of pulling lhron);h. J have just, learned that, he was buried by a chaplain in a British military cemetery and his crave marked, which will be comforting news to those at home. I'drtunalelv we three brothers

met the evening preceding the Messines affair for the first ami last time. Jim was as lie always used to he, bright, cheerful and full of courage, and 1 know ho died without tear and full of faith... . -My own wound was comparatively slight and is now thoroughly healed. In another week I. shall probably be sent on a fortnight s leave and then rejoin my rdgiment, in France. I was hit by a shrapnel bullet whilst digging in. The stunt had all the usual elements of battle, carnage, shcli-lorn columns of men, and so on, but it is magnificent in many ways, and I would not, have missed the experience—thousands of men marching calmly forward in the face of, at times, murderous shell fire. \es. a,

■tli rill hi" experience. ... 1 saw a few Trinity buys occasionally. Lieut. Talbot is safe in Franco; Howard I’hil--1 ij)s lias a behiml-the-lincs job through failin" sight; I met Knock Flintol'f in the iS./. Hospital at Brocken hurst. . . The English country-side is looking its best now and very charming I find it. England, of course, is on rations; there are many restrictions, but there is little hardship.”