DIED OF WOUNDS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 13697, 29 May 1915, Page 4

DIED OF WOUNDS.

WRITTEN IN MEMORY OF PVTE. .-<- ALFRED KEWLEY, Avho died of AA v 6unds deceived m .' action at the Dardanelles, the report of Avhich appeared m the; issue of Saturday, 22nd 'of Mayj of the PoA'crty Bay Herald. Sad was the news the paper brought, By far the saddest hews of all Alf " Kewley 's death;; the very thought Should make us heed our Country's call. • "Died of his Avounds," that's all it tells (With Aye must be satisfied) While fighting m; the Dardanelles. We only knoAv poor KeAvley died. Miles from the land that gave him birth, No doubt- with comrades by the score, He sleeps, alas, m foreign earth, While 4 cannons round nis grave niuyi roar. ■-„ \ ;. " j' I kueAA- h'isn,' ere ho went away' >-. Like many more m Gisborne here, And every one of us ''can' say . He, tvas'a- plan who knew no fear. /,

The first to die, from Gisborne's roll I In action, and to die so truly. Ah , Cbmrad esy if ybu have a soul • Just try and "get one back" for Kewley. He gave all any man can give, His life's blood, for hi. country dear, And all Avho now m Gisborne live , Should mourn ,-his death, with grief sincere.

There's • -just one small disturuing fact On Avhich Are all agree. We Avager The towiv they .would have draped m black ••; t-' 'We're hea "colonel or a' niajbr. NewiZealai-ders, the papers gay Fought with a dash ; none could be holder. '" Tli en. why aren't flags half-mast- to-day For Kewley, just a private soldier?. —Ciias. Taylor. PouaAva, ' ' May * 25, 1915.