SOLDIERS RETURN.
ART? IVA L OF THE PALOOXA. (Press Association Telegram.) DUNEDIN, Oc-t. 11. Tho Puloona, which arrived to-day, brought 85 soldiers hack. Most of the have -seen service in Egypt only, hot .s';life liad been on Gallipoli and tv: ■ were with the Mesopotamian ’.Expeditionarv ’Force. '1 her-.; are oulv two cot ca s es, and most of tin men showed little outward trace of their experiences. The cot cases are: Driver Brown, of Westport, badly wounded in the leg, and mentioned in despatches, and Private I. B. Wallace, of Wellington. Sappers Middleton and Loveridge, who ;vattached as wireless operators to the Divisional Headquarter* of the Indian Expeditionary Force in Mesopotamia, broke down as the result of the climate. One of them stated that out of his section of 61 men onlv 20 were fit for duty. The in on were accorded a reception in the afternoon. The northern soldiers leave by the Paloona to-morrow.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XLVII, Issue 4368, 12 October 1916, Page 5
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