POSITION AT QUINN'S POST
CAPTAIN BEAN'S REPORT. ) 'SYDNEY, June 21. Captain C-. E. W. Bean, official correspondent with the Australian forces, writing en June Bth, said everything was quiet except at Quinn's Post, when constant fighting by small parties resulted in an advance. The New Zealanders, after gallantly holding; a trench for eight hours, were driven'out by.. a fusilade of bombs. Thcv again took the same trench, and were again driven out. AUSTRALIAN CASUALTIES. SYDNEY, June 21. The forty-second casualty list- is as follows : Killed in action: : Seventy-five rank and file, including Private F. C. R. Simon, a- New Zealander. Died of wounds Two. Wounded : Lieutenants Koch and King and' 179 rank and file, including Private C. Morell, a. New Zealander. Dangerously ill: Three. Total Dardanelles casualties are Killed: Officers, 129; men, 1371. Wounded: Officers, 309; men, 6800. Missing: Officers, 19; men, 366. A NEW ZEALANDER. (Ree. 11.5 a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. . Private Philip Bond, killed in action at the Dardanelles, went with the New Zealand Contingent.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLVIII, Issue XLVIII, 22 June 1915, Page 5
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