NEVER MISSING

Marlborough Express, Volume XLIX, Issue 250, 21 October 1915, Page 8

NEVER MISSING

THE CASE OF PRIVATE

BROWNE

An instance of the uncertainty that is associated with thg issue of casualty lists from the Dardanelles is afforded by the case of Private C U. Browne, son of Mr H. V. Browne, of Blenheim. On June 13th the Minister for Defence cabled to his parents the intelligence that Private Browne was; missing, and on July 31st the authorities intimated that the .soldier, reported missing, had rejoined his regiment. Now it appears that Private Brown was never missing. In a letter written on September 12th to his father he says:—"Just a_ line to let you know that lam all right. 1 am' sitting in the trenches writing this. Things to-day are that quiet you would not know that a war %vas on. The only thing that annoys one is the fly pest. There are millions oi then:, and they always get worse at meat time. i see by the Exwifcss that 1 was roptvited missing; l>ut tlrat is incorrect. There certainly has been so:no mistake, for I have been In the firing lino all the time. I fully expected T-o see and the rest of, my Blenheim 'pals' here before this, are they still hanging off? It is no time fry- thinking but to be 'up and

doing.' "