AMONG THE WOUNDED.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 11510, 5 October 1915, Page 5

AMONG THE WOUNDED.

AMBULANCE CORPS' GOOD WORK 1 XCIDBNTS UNDER FIRE. An account of the heroic work of tlw Ambulance Corps on Gallipoli Peuitt* 3 sub. is given in a Napier boy's lette? to his relatives- .•? Just- aiter mic!n!grit on May 3, 110 says, they were ordered to go op the .j " Valley of Death," a big attack being . made at Quinn's Post at the top. The mud up lfl i s gully was ut> to one'* knees in places. Ihro'igh ail tiu's they .j haci' to carry wounded right down the gully, a. distance of from two to thre® miles, to the Australian dressing sta« tion on the beach. They wero undel shrapnel fire all tho way. In several pisces .lev had to go more than ordinarily t|uiokly, as the snipers were ting at them. Quite a number of } Australian ambulance men were hitr t ■ but not one New Zealander, although several had very narrow escapes. Tbey ) were very lucky. About six o'clock In >the morning volunteers were called for io get a sergeant-major out of a hole right in the zone of fire. The writer and five others volunteered, and. took a stretcher up, under oover the whole l way. They had' an awful job getting ; the man out of the hole, on to the stretcher, and then up the bill on to a track and back to the aid post. All the way they wero under fire, but tho • r « Turks managed to miss them all, al- ■■ though one bullet nicked a hole in tlie ■ stretcher. They wouldn't d'o tKat trip again—not for a thousand ppundfi. There was a tremendousi number oi . I wounded that night, and the surgeons were working continuously on the beach, But even then they could > not manage to handle all the cases. A jetty had been made at the shore lauding place, ana' up to this steam pinnaces j were steaming fussily all the time, bik- ,| ing away the wounded to the hospita) / .ships ah" quickly asi they could. Th«, two hospital ships were quickly filled, \ and then the warships and transports '• had to be hastily fixed up to accom- : mod ate the wounded. One man, al- ,* though lie had four bullet wound'a, ac- ~ vfj tually walked down to the dressing j station, and awaited his turn, Coi}- 1 trasi this with another case. A man was being brought down on a stretcher when a shrapnel burst behind them. Afl ouick as a flash he that was wounded jumped off the stretcher and rau to j cover, whilst two of the bearers wers hit. —' ,