"WHEN I COME HOME."

New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16097, 10 December 1915, Page 8

"WHEN I COME HOME."

• PROMISE BROKEN BY DEATH. Turkish bullets have for ever prevented Private F. C. Bauer, of Manly, Sydney, from keeping he made to his son in the following letter "written from Anzac on September 9 :— "I am ptill quit* well, and still hope to be home with you on Easier Monday 1916. I will bring you home some Turkish coins. I'm living in a nice new duffout quite close to the Mediterranean Sea. 'Beacuy Bill,' the Turkish gun, throws shells over the cliff, and to.«m«Snd scatters close dv. We can see the monitors throwing the big shells from the 14m guns right over Achi Baba. I met Roy Quirk and Bob Douglas in the jmllv ' close to where I am staying, and had a : ng 9?£ I**°? ?* carrying wounded ] for 24 hours, and have a epell next day ; It is very hard and dangerous work. The bullets make a whistling Marino rJ*~ ; burst with a big Sff g «J n s««2| : and iron all round. The cap SthJ aheU ' makes a nice humming sound. The W. cry out down; get into your due out-" "spots you.' When there ' are no wounded out at the «tationT we ; toll yarns aU day, boa the billyTald 1 make uully beef' stew with driel'poS { toes. We get pork and rice, bread Nam ] and tea, rum and cigarettes. We' Seep on the ground on a waterproof sheet ] covered over with a coat and blanket It is getting wintry here now. I'U write un for you r.hen TtSi , 1 1 ! A