CORPORAL'S EXPERIENCE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 15947, 18 June 1915, Page 4

CORPORAL'S EXPERIENCE.

CONCUSSION OF A SHELL.

[BT TELEGRAPH.—OWN COjmESPONDENT.J CitEisicmjßcn, Thursday.

Writing to a friend in Christchurch from the Kasr. El Aini Hospital, LanceCorporal Noel Ross writes:—"You will probably be surprised to' learn that I-have rcen the Turk and lie got me down and worried me. Gallipoli, even at the best of times, is not a pice place and when a i shell burets almost M the .small oi one's 'back ar<d one is knocked over a c))B by the concussion, it becomes less and less like a health resort. That's what hapI piied to me and as a result I came back i hero with a whole akin but minus a good deal of my memory' and with nerves jangling. Apart from my hurts lam well • and . cheerful and usually hungry, /so am not doing so badly."

SHOT THROUGH THE KNEE.

JOYS OF THE HOSPITAL.

MEN WELL CARED FOR. fBY TELEGRAPH.— CORRESPONDENT.J Dunedin, Thursday. A New Zealand soldier, who was wounded in the Dardanelles and is now an inmate of tlie Casino Hospital, at San Stephane, Alexandria, writes:—"Wo lay off the Dardanelles waiting for operations to commence, and then we had our fight. And it was a fight! Our men landed early in the morning. The third brigade, composed of Australians, landed first, and we followed about four in the afternoon. I lasted till eleven o'clock next day, and then got a bullet through the knee, which has settled mo for two months. I was out with a patroi party when I got shot. We are having a grand time in the hospital. They treat us very well here. Wo want for nothing. The sensation of a mattress bed, after eight months' sleeping on hard ground, or sand, or board, is grand. We have not been in a position to enjoy it properly yet, but now our wounds are healing a bit, we will bo able to sleep. We have good doctors here, so am quits confident that the best will be done for my knee, whatever is wrong with it. This hospital is about five miles along the coast from Alexandria. It is a lovely, healthy spot, where one gets all the sun of Egypt without any of its plagues of dust, flies, etc."