NEW ZEALANDERS AT FLERS.
MEN CARRY ON WHEN OFFICERS FALL.
INSTANCES OF INITIATIVE AND GRIT. Be titer's Telegrams. (Received October 4, 9.20 a.m.) NEW YORK, October 3. Router's Headquarters correspondent states that a Now Zealand officer leading the Otago men at Flers on September 15 was wounded. A sergeant assumed command, and the party carried a trench and consolidated it. During the same fight an Auckland sergeant led a bombing party to a German sap. Despite the loss of most of his party, and himself blown off his feet, he ultimately won the trench. An Auckland private, seeing his comrades hard pressed, took up reinforcements himself, although wounded. He ran along the trench, deliberately bombing the Germans, thus permitting the Canterbury men to press home their counterattack.
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Sun (Christchurch), Volume III, Issue 827, 4 October 1916, Page 7
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127NEW ZEALANDERS AT FLERS. Sun (Christchurch), Volume III, Issue 827, 4 October 1916, Page 7
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