SICK AND WOUNDED.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16009, 30 August 1915, Page 8

SICK AND WOUNDED.

LATE CASUALTY LIST. MORE DEATHS REPORTED. The following list of casualties was is -•"'i !" the D.-i-;..' Department :itt»r midnight last night :

KILLED IN ACTION. Members of the Field Engineers killed in actio on Aligns! 10 and 11:— j J. Mackenzie. : W. Kennedy. i L. S. Jones. Sergeant L. R. Darrow, Headouurtci * Staff. August 10. Lance Corporai A. Hanmer, ( anterhuy Mounted Rifle*. August 10. E. G. Little Canterbury Infantry. ' DIED OF WOUNDS.

J. Jones, <>t.i.-. Infantry. August 7 Lance-Corporal J. Parrott, Ot=ieo In- ! fantrv . August 7. F. M. Way, < anterbury Mounted Rifle?. j A new •■ i 8. J. A. Cochrane, Canterbury Mounted H : i! -. Aug..-a 13 F. G. Bitters, Ota*, Infantry. G. Mac Lean, Wellington Mounted Rifle?, August 13. I J. T. Graham, Wellington Mounted Rifles. IM. E. Brislane, ( anterbury Mounted ! Ki*,s. ! V. R. Couchman, Ca: teibnry Infantrv I Lance-Corporal N. A. Eobieson, Wellington Mounted llifies. | W. A. Alexander, Wellington Infantry. | DIED OF DISEASE. ]C. A. Hooker, Army Service Corps. i tvjpl'.id. August 20. i F. W. Luckie, Canterbury Infantry. I J. Randall, Wellington Infantry, dysen ! t<-ry. ; J. Hulme, Wellington Infantrv.

i j DANGEROUSLY ILL. I F. N. Samuel, New Zealand Field Artilj lery, enteric. August 15. |H. C. Middleton, Auckland Mounted j Rifles. August 17. !W. I. C. Ward, Wellington Mounted Rifles, amputated leg, August 17.

I j DANGEROUSLY ILL AT MALTA. \ iC. K. Temperley, Auckland Infantry i i Battalion. j | A. Miles, Otago Infantry Battalion. ' Sergeant G. Bridgman, Otago Mounted : Rifles. | DISEMBARKED AT MALTA. Slightly sick :— j S. Quinlan, Auckland Mounted Rifles. J C. McGonagle, Wellington Infantry Bat- j tali on. Corporal B. C. Hastedt, Wellington In- j fantry Battalion. j E. C. Burke, Wellington Infantry Battalion. H. G. McNichol, Army Service Corps. i MISSING. j G. Jones, Field Engineers. July 23. I T. T. Sandes, Field Engineers, August 9. WOUNDED. j j A. H. Griffiths, Field Artillery, mounded ! in neck. J. McCarthy, Field Artillery, arm, fit for duty. H. g'. Ward, Field Artillery, slightly wounded, second occasion. P. W. Bramwell, Field Engineers, head, August 9. S. J. Hearn, Field Engineers, August 9. T. G. Hinton, Field Engineers, shoulder, August 14. C. Hamilton, Auckland Battalion, face. Corporal J. Harris, Auckland Battalion, W. ! T. W. Stringer, Auckland Mounted Rifles, face. Corporal 0. A. Sutton, Auckland Mounted Rifles, hand 'second time). W. S. Wright, Canterbury Mounted Rifles, shoulder. A. H. Barker, Canterbury Infantry. H. E. Garth, Canterbury Infantry. A. A. King, Canterbury Infantry. A. E. Gayson, Canterbury Infantry Battalion ; leg. IJ. E. Hale, Canterbury Infantry Battalion : shock. ; R. A. Tyler, Canterbury Infantry Battalion. T. Matthews, Canterbury Infantry Bat- , talion. S. Clark, Canterbury Infantry. 'J. McDonald, Canterbury Infantry. j j R. E. Barrett, Canterbury Infantry. , !H. T. Batchelor, Canterbury Infantry, • I dangerously. j The following members of the Maori , contingent have been disembarked i wounded at Malta :— " Henare Paipeta, arm and thigh. . Paratene Haumatangi, right thigh. Hutene Reihona, left thigh. I ? ! TURKS WITH THE BAYONET.

It is hard to realise, but we know that : the Turk prides himself, just as we do, j upon being " a devil of a fellow" with; the bayonet., writes Captain Bean from' the Dardanelles. We know it from prisoners. He thinks that if he can only get to close quarters and use cold steel he '3 irresistible. As a matter of fact, his bayonet charges have been of the feeblest description. He comes on bravely, but he seems to lark the activity or the quickness necessary for the bayonet. He is a very slow soldier. Plenty of men who have come upon him suddenly have managed to shoot him or get away during the time he invariably takes fumbling with his rifle. This makes it difficult to believe that the lurk is responsible for a twentieth of the brilliant dodges attributed to him. Such false orders as were passed down our lines in the early days, and did not originate in simple mistakes, must have been started by Germans in the Turkish service.

The German always fails in one point, and that is when he tries to grasp another person's feelings. To expect him to understand the. quizzical, cynical cheerfulness of the Australasian under discomforts, the flics, the heat, the constant fatigues, raining, water carryim;, entrenching, which make up the mode of warfare, would be like expecting a Hottentot to appreciate Bernard Shaw. The Australasians seem to he able to turn everything to a laugh. During the whole of the Turkish attack of May 19. which was a very serious attack from the Turkish point of view, our men were sitting on the. parapet or leaning well under the trenches, some of them waving their hats, shouting "Come on Tmshi. ye beggars." " Igri." " F.ggsirook," '"'Well give you Allah," flinging out '-very Arabic catchword they knew. As the attack began to fail, and the Turks were bolting hack from where they had thrown themselves down in the scrub and grass, someone shouted at them, "Play you again next Saturday.'*