REMARKABLE ACCIDENT

Southland Times, Issue 17658, 16 February 1916, Page 2

REMARKABLE ACCIDENT

INJURED SOLDIER’S STOICISM. An accident of a peculiar kind occurred recently, when a young .soldier named Norman L. McKenzie, attached to the 4th Battalion at Liverpool, had his arm broken 'whilst travelling in a train to Sydney. McKenzie was in a first-class smoking carriage, together with a number of other soldiers. When the train was somewhere near Lewisham a resounding crash was heard throughout the carriage, and the next moment it was seen that McKenzie had been badly injured. He had his arm hanging out of the carriage window, and as he drew it in it was seen to hang limply by his side. Exactly what had struck it was not quite clear, but another train going in the opposite direction was passing by when the crash was heard. He is believed to have been struck by a swinging carriage door of the passing train. Except that his arm was hanging dowhr as if broken, McKenzie showed no sign of the agony he must have been suffering. Several soldiers at once rushed to his assistance, rendering llrst aid. They cut the sleeve away, and it was seen that the elbow had been frightfully smashed, but the young soldier bore it with that calm stoicism .that the doctors and nurses have referred to as the outstanding characteristic of our wounded soldiers at Gallipoli. Then, like them, he turned his head and asked quietly for a cigarette, and he began to smoke.