ONE OF LORD ROBERTS’ SOLDIERS.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXV, Issue XV, 13 October 1900, Page 675

ONE OF LORD ROBERTS’ SOLDIERS.

An old soldier of the Queen, StaffSergeant .1. Chalkley. late of the Bengal Commissariat Department, and the Sth King’s Liverpool Regiment, residing at Bwnara Road, Horton Park (N.S.W.). was recently called upon by a reporter. Asked for an account of his experiences Sergeant Chalkley said be had enlisted when only 17 and served in India and Afghanistan for 20 years.

He was under Lord Roberts in the Afghan Campaign of ’7B-9-80 and fought at Charasia and Kabul, for which he received a medal and two clasps. “The climate and exposure told upon my health,” he continued, “and in 1870 fever and ague attended me with shivering fits, intense cramping pains, and copious perspiration. Then bronchitis came on and left me so weak that I could not walk without a stick, and I was so dizzy that I often had to catch hold of something to save, a fall. I could not sleep properly and rose each morning quite worn out. Although treated for 19 years by army surgeons, on Christmas Day r ’BB I obtained my discharge, coming to Australia and settling here, working as a market gardener whenever my health permitted. Several doctors said I would never be rid of the effects of the fever and one told my son I had not long to live, but I was induced to commence Dr. Williams’ pink pills. Two or three boxes made me so much stronger that I continued them, and although when I commenced them I ■was very ill and unable to work, I am now quite strong and well and work in my garden with the hoe and spade without ill effect. I am a living testimonial of the merits of Dr. Williams* pink pills, for I believe they saved my life” 4 Sergeant Chalkley’s cure is not an exceptional one. Dr. Williams’ pink pills by bracing up the unstrung

nt*n<*N, r ti r idling tiir i tupov erishrd bloody and Mreng’Hirninf* the spiae, made aui active tuau him despite his long experience suffering. Hy acting on the causes of disease they have cured thousands of cases of rheumatism. sciatica. neuralgia. lumbago, bronchitis. consumption. dvseutrv. coughs and colds, ladies ail-

meuts, dyspepsia, paralysis, etc. Sold, by the Dr. Willlains Medicone Comjiany. Wallington, three ■hillings per box. six boxes sixteen and six, post free, and by chemists aud storekeepers—But mind you ask for Dr. Williams’. Remember it was ua substitute which eureii Sergeawt Chalkley.