NELSONIANS FROM THE FRONT.

Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 14156, 19 April 1916, Page 2 (Supplement)

NELSONIANS FROM THE FRONT.

(From t(The Colonist," March 20.) Four Nelson soldiers returned from tho front by the, Pateena, on Saturday .morning. They are:—" ' Sergeant, Tebay, of Hope, who wa» saffering from gastritis, but has now recovered. Private Windleborn, of Hope,, whohas almost recovered from .enteric fever. PriVate Chirm, of Collingwood, who was shot, in the arm, of which he.liAb not yet recovered the use. Private Martindale, who received injurios in the landing at Galh'poii, and was wounded in the knee on An {rust 7th. Sister Ingram, of Riohp-ond, also came by the Pateena. She was matron. in charge on tho Tahiti, and will remain at. home only a. short t-mio, having W be ready for duty again on April Ist The soldiers and nurse were n?.et by members of tho Empire Defence Committee, and taken to* breakfast. Sergeant Tebay, Private Windlcf'oom and Sister Ingram afterwards proceeded to their homes. Private China was* sent on to Collingwood: by car. Privato Martindale was : invalided to England, and while there was married. Mrs Martindale fe at present in England. Private Martindale is staying; with Mr S. Winn, for whom he used to work, and who comes from the same part of the Old Country. March, 2.1. Sergeant H. Barlow, who enlisted from Nelson with the Main Expeditionary Force, and returned invalided to New Zealand' by the Kotorua, is at present in Nelson. Sorgeant Barlow was awarded' the Distinguished Services Medal for bombing a Turkish trench at Gallipali single-handed and killing n number of the enemy. He escaped without a scratch, but in subsequent fighting h© suffered from the effects of a bomb explosion, losing the sight of his left eye. Otherwise he is in excellent health, and he expects to be discharged from the forces in a few days. March, 22. Lieutenant-Colonel Pearless, of Wakefield, who has returned to New Zealand on six mwnths' furlough, arrived in Nelson yesterday, and proceeded to. his home in Wakefield. A member of the Main Body of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force, Private P. E. Westrupp, son of Mr G. Westrupp, of Port Nelson, returned to Nelson yesterday by the Mapourika. Private Westrupp spent four months in the trenches at Gallipoli. He took part in the landing, and also in the great battle of 7th and Bth August. He wont through four months' neavv fighting without a scratch. Towards the end of August, however, he w.*s slob through the hand while looking through a pair of field glasses. The fleshy part op-the eye was also cut afoout, but tho sight was not injured in any way. Later Private Westrupp was sent to England, and on his recovery he spent six weeks on leave in London. He speaks in the highest praise of th© treatment accorded the New Zealamlws by the English people. Private Westrupp left London in the best o L. health, but suffered a chill at Capetown through jumping into the sea to roscne a soldier who had fallen overboard.