SOLDIERS' LETTERS.
A FIELD AMBULANCE MAN. ANXIOUS TO GET ASHORE. Trooper A.. D. ILwke, of th*) South Canterbury Mounted Field Ambulance, writing from a "Fleet Sweeper" to his mother, Mrs W., Hawke, lingodells, Geraldine ; says: — I am again on the sea, was very glad to get away from Lemnds: was working for a fortnight in the liospital there, and it is a terrible plaoo for wind and flies-. ... I am detached from the Mounted Ambulance at present, and have been ©per since we left Egypt. ... I have, not managed to get ashore at Gallipoli j-et, but it is my ambition to do so, and I may have the luck any day now as wo arcjust alongside the coast every second day. Wo have had shrapnel landing near us, and also a few bombs from aiir craft, but that is nothing so long as they don't hit you. There are only nine N.Z.M.C's, that is not counting our two skippers, and wo have to look after (censored 1 ). I am afraid Mr Censor will object if I give you details.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CIII, Issue 15741, 27 August 1915, Page 9
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179SOLDIERS' LETTERS. Timaru Herald, Volume CIII, Issue 15741, 27 August 1915, Page 9
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