HEROIC SELF-SACRIFICE.
KILLED WHEN TENDING WOUNDED An instance of heroic self-sacrifice by a member of the Auckland Mounted Rifles in Palestine is related in a letter just received in Auckland. Referring to the r lo ath of Trooper Edward Coutts, who
killed in action in Palestine recently, a . mrade writes: —"Ted Coutts died one uf the bravest deaths any man could. He was standing out in the open dressing the wound of a mate, who had been hit by shrapnel, when a shell came over and killed him instantly. Had he looked to himself and sought cover the chances are that he would have been alive yet. He was a member of the Hotchkiss machinegun crew, and had the satisfaction of giving— helping to —the Turks a particularly hot time before he went under." Trooper Coutts came to Auckland five years ago from the Shetland Islands to learn farming, with a view to settling in this province. He left with the sixth reinforcements, and from the time of going into ramp until the day of his death had not once paraded sick.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LV, Issue 16849, 14 May 1918, Page 6
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