N.Z. MOUNTED RIFLES
"The mounted man lias a hard time of it," writes a member of the NewZealand Mounted Rifles Brigade to his parents in Wellington. "He does all the reconnaissance right in front of the infantry, provides all the advance guards, screens, rearguards, etc., and under fire. Once tiie enemy sights our horses he gives us hell with the shells; also when their planes come over we have to stand to or horses, and they present a good target. I had a narrow escape a few days ago. We had led out from the lines, as the plane was right overhead, and I heard the bomi> coming. T set the horse going for a little way, and I seemed to he right under it, so I stopped, thinking it was over me, and 1 had a minute to live. When it struck the ground ten yards ahead of me I think I was the most surprised man in the regiment when I found I wasn't hurt. The soft gruund saved me. I had the presence of mind to turn round and go l>nek, as she dropped threp Ji'nr" right, in line with the first one. A bomb dropping from an aeroplane has a very demoralising effect on one, as the peculiar noise is awful, and there is no cover; hut a man becomes a fatalist. If your name is on a bullet, t shell, or bomb, you will get it."
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Waikato Times, Volume 88, Issue 13449, 30 March 1917, Page 2
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241N.Z. MOUNTED RIFLES Waikato Times, Volume 88, Issue 13449, 30 March 1917, Page 2
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