AUSTRALIAN CASUALTIES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16010, 31 August 1915, Page 8

AUSTRALIAN CASUALTIES.

SIX HUNDRED MOKE NAMES

WOUNDED NEW ZEALANDERS

Rcoived August 31. 12.30 in.)

Sydney, August 30. The 71st list of Australian casualties includes:—Killed in action: One officer and six men- Died of .vcur.de or illness: Eleven officers and 48 men, including Private C. Greave, a New Zealander. Wounded: Eighteen officers and 546 men, including the following New Zealander : Corporal Hickson, second occasion. The following New Zealanders are in hospital at Ghezireh: Privates W. Grainger, T. Livingstone, W. Campbell, W. Smith, W. Cosgrove (second occasion), H. Weir, and Sergeant A. L. Aucher. In hospital at Heliopolis : Privates J. W. McGlone and C. S. Todd--111: Thirty-two men. including Private D. Ordade, l a New Zealander, who is in hospital at andriaUissing: Four officers.

VARIETY OF GOOD FOODLIFE IN THE TRENCHES. STALKING THE SNIPER. [BY TELEGBAPH.—SPECIAL COBBESPOJOJEXT.] Welltxgtox, Monday. A letter from the Gallipoli trenches has been received from Captain J. G. McCallam, written on various scraps of paper. He says— " We have arrived at the firing-line at last, and are up in the first line of trenches, where the Turks are only 25yds from us. Sometimes we get a shot at them and sometimes they get one at us, but otherwise things are fairly quiet. At times they shell us a bit, but we are excellently dug in. and it is rarely that anyone is hit. They arc at it as I write.

''We have a fortnight in the trenches at a time, two days on and ono off, and when the fortnight is done we are pretty glad of a rest. The weather is warm, but a great relief after Egypt, where it was 123deg in the shade sometimes.

" 'Tucker' is excellent and quite varied. We get canned meat, biscuits, bread, sometimes, tea, coffee, sugar, jam, salt, pepper, figs, onions, potatoes, and dried vegetables. Not a bad list considering we are so far from anywhere, is it? We do all our own cooking. The only shortage is water. We on'y get three pints a day for all purposes, including cooking and washing, so you can guess that washing does not absorb much of it. But we can get a dip in the sea-every third day." Writing to his father from Egypt, on July 9, Trooper Francis Moore, of Johnsonville, says:—" It ia grand sport stalking and potting 'Turkeys* at Gallipoli. Sometimes wo find them perching in trees, but most of them hide in the ground. We scud a bullet through all likely cover within range. That is how we inquire whether there is anybody at home."