A PATHETIC SCENE.

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

A PATHETIC SCENE.

BROTHERS MEET ON BATTLEFIELD. A remarkable but pathetic meeting on the battlefield at Gallipoli of two brothers, is recorded in a letter written by Private W. Breeze, brother of Mr J. Breeze, of the Masterton Post Office staff, to his parents, from -a hospital in Egypt, where he lies wounded. “It was awful on that hillside on Friday and Saturday. It just rained bullets and shrapnel. We took two trenches at the point of the bayonet, and at about 1 o’clock on the Saturday we went to support the first lot, and lost a_ lot of men. Wo were lying behind the firing line waiting to charge, when I got hit. I sat up to have a look where I had been hit, when I suddenly saw Paddy (his brother), whom I had not seen since wo arrived hero, a little way along the trench. _ He had been wounded. I went over to him, and it was terrible to see him; ho had been wounded in both logs. 1 sat beside him for a time. He was a brave fellow. lie sat and said: -’Well, Bill, old man, I’m clone for. Tell the boys I died game, and give my love to mother, father, and all at home.” 1 broke up and fried to carry him, but it was no good. So he said: ‘Straighten my legs out and I will take my chance.’ I "told him I would send the stretcherbearers for him if 1 got out. I got to the hospital without getting hit. The stretcher-bearers went for him and the other ■wounded, but never got there. They would not lot me go back to them, and put _m_o aboard a ship and sent mo to Alexandria.” Word has since been received of the death of Private Paddy Breeze.