AFTER 23 YEARS
SOLDIERS MEET AGAIN GAZA, Nov. 21. Twenty-three years ago, during the Passchendaele fighting, Lieutenant John Hayes, a 20-year.-old Geelong member of the old 22nd Battalion, was carried grievously wounded into a casualty clearing station, states the acting-Commonwealth official war correspondent with the A.I.F. Now a major in the new A.1.F., he met in Palestine recently, for the first time since Passchendaele, the man who saved his life. The reunion was in a casualty clearing station. The officer commanding it was in charge of the station into which Hayes was carried in 1917. So badly was Hayes wounded by a shell splinter that he broke the record for a stay in so advanced a station, remaining on a water-bed for nearly a month. Ultimately he returned to Australia and made what lie describes as a miraculous recovery.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20414, 26 November 1940, Page 6
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