"REAR OF THE TRENCHES"

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16580, 2 July 1917, Page 4

"REAR OF THE TRENCHES"

_;• EVERY TART OF THE EMPIRE. A Stanley Bay soldier now at the front, in a letter to a resident of that suburb, says:—"The job has to be done—liard as ib is. To stand by as the men pass, and to sympathise with them because— they do not get killed or wounded—they aio very likely fo get rheumatics or pleurisy, is not as good as realising that these same men know that they are only doing their best, and that if they come back needing medical help there are ambulances and men waiting to take them to & good he pital, where they will have every chance to be relieved and cured. "See them in with a bright face and every good wish, and then get to work and do all you possibly can at the rear of the trenches to help the men who are doing the fighting. In my idea the rear of the trenches does not stop at the dress-ing-station, or a bath-house, where a soldier can change his socks and so en. The rear extends to every part of the Empire. "We soldiers are -jp against the examination now, and I think wo are proving ourselves good pupils. We had a bad start, and rather a short and interrupted course of two and a-half years, but, by sticking to it, I think we will prove better than the Germans, and I am noping that when the judgment goes against the said 'Fritz' it will bo with costs on the highest stale,"-