ACCIDENTALLY WOUNDED

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLVIII, Issue XLVIII, 16 July 1915, Page 4

ACCIDENTALLY WOUNDED

BAYONET IN ATRENpEL A member of the: Canterbury Infantry. •Battalion, Private "Fi Q; Turner,' writes',, to his parents at Now Brighiqh, from/a,, hospital, in Egypi, "'under dato of May 21, as follows: "When I loft the Dardanelles wo had; spent about three weeks or a irontji ! there. I lost all count of dates in tho trenches, being x-elievedi" eveiy little . while, and enabled- to get down the zone of Sometimes our qr,dfers; , were to advance and kirn the"'enero'y. out of their trenches, and sometimes just to hang on and hold the positioni. wo were in. After winning" through those, three weeks without a. scratch, as so,few did, I had tho misfortune to be accidentally bayoneted, in the leg.", Wo had been relieved after three days dn the, firing line, to allow us to procure hos drinks. It -was dark, and everybody was hurrying to got under, the shelter of a hillside out of the enemy's Sre. 'To •'do this we had to cross aboqt half-a-dozen vacated trenches. In. one of these latter, somebody/, most -probably,., a. 'wounded man, hris- left a fijeed" stickinc straight 'up. On jurqping over the trench ijC|«.iho dark I alighted' qn, this' bayonet. ' It" caught me., between !'.'■. thV • knee and the ankle. My own weight, did the rest. . ' -_ •. " "We are treated like kings iruthe,.hos- ~ pital, and got the best "of food, Every - thing seems isatuifactory In this theattc; *. of the -war. All emergencies seem'ltovhe" provided for, and the, supplies, ; right,"iniq ' the firing line, aro complete'."'' .'■"" ',.•'