PECULIAR INCIDENT

Otago Witness, Issue 3215, 27 October 1915, Page 52

PECULIAR INCIDENT

STORY OF A NAPIER OPERATOR

In a letter received by his parents at Hastings, Sapper Walter Norris, who was employed at the Napier Telegraph Office, and left with the Main Body, and is now engaged in telegraphic duties at Divisional Headquarters at Gallipoli, describes the following incident: — He writes: “A rather peculiar incident occurred in the office a couple of days ago, during an attack, which resulted in one of our operators being wounded in the arm. I was sitting on one side of the table, and two other operators on the other side, when a stray bullet came through the only hole in the roof and hit one operator on the clasp of his braces, right over the man’s heart. It then bounced off, and lodged into the other operator’s right arm The first operator had a remarkable escape, for, had it not been for the clasp, the bullet would have got him in the heart; but it only broke his braces. The bullet was fairly well spent, for it must have come probably two miles; but it had sufficient pace to do serious damage.”