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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 14045, 15 July 1916, Page 5

Twice within the la^t wieek, the cable-; grams haV^ 'mentioned the daihing work ' of the 'HigliJand Light' ' InfEtii^ry ' on 'the Wesbern •front.' It'js'itfterestihg to jtlote'i that the ei-Otago High 'School bdy, Captain Cecil Humphries (Mib AVas tor some; tflme resident m CMris'tchu'rch) is attached to the 12th Highland Light In-; iantry. He was 'm liondon wlwn war Ijroke but, aift'd j^«'d ' the Army Service' 'Corps' -With ibfe rank of sergeant ; i[uickly^ resigned rank, i: and V 3oihed; the Manchesters, Expsditionaiy 'Force, as a private, won the D.C.M., and was 1 promoted "to 'sergeant | wias -wounded at Neuve Chapelle. Invah'ded to England, Sergeant Humphries soon recovered, and was proiriofceti to li'eateiiaiifc, and later on to captain. He writes as follows from "Somewhere m Fran,ceiV under date May Bfh, to his sister ([Mrs. S. G. Wilson, ■MusMburgh, DuHedin) :— "The last few weeks the fighting has been mOst •severe ; The 'Hung trsed • ' their poison f ga» t: oil us for &\\ houi-'alid a-half a few days ago ; 'tllen followed it up with 1 an attack,' H63?pebting no 'doubt to nhd v -us all httlf-derid. or' dead,' when 'they caitie ' tiver. But our -tievr 'helmets are absolute pi'otectibn' a;gain^tF allfheir was, and HVtten' they lelttheiiV benches thdf foUhb! w« were Very^rmrchM^live: i'We inflicted 'great loiw;.bn them, and they never gained a-'footing aiiywhere 'iri'>our ttenches. Lately we (our regiment) have been holding the Hc-benzollern redoubt, and a rough replace it ia tbo^-all mine eraters-^-and one never knowß the moment he is going to jofti the "aerial scouts.' Leave is open again, and 1 am expecting to go .over horn« any day now. Naturally the seven days we get are looked forward to by fche boys as the happiest of happy times. . . Gheer 01- ,