WOUNDED IN FORTY PLACES.

Colonist, Volume LVIII, Issue 14483, 15 August 1917, Page 3 (Supplement)

WOUNDED IN FORTY PLACES.

(From "The Colonist," August Ist.) Mr H. Whitford has received a letfa from his son, Bombardier Percy Whri forQ, who is serving with the New Zei •land Artillery in France, stating tha lie had been wounded in forty-on places as the result of an enemy she bursting! Fortunately, he says, th . vonnrig were rerv small, the large* ])eing not more than a quarter or a inch across. The man in front of hii was1 killed, /OTK ] another alongside c him Rorioufly wounded. The trenc was blown in op top of them, but th next shell blew him back again. Bon hardier Whitford says he was bad] shaken, and at the time of writing we resting. He mentions that the boj considered him the luckiest man the had seen. Bombardier Wliitford ci listed at the outbreak of the war,'an went to Samoa with the Advance Part 1 On his return ho left New Zealand wit tho Sixth Rcir.forcoments, and hi . been on active ■service-in Egypt. Gall r>oli, and Franco ever since, 'havir Tjreen wounded three times. '