ASHMEAD BARTLETT.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Issue 1354, 6 April 1916, Page 34

ASHMEAD BARTLETT.

“I met Ashmead Bartlett in the trenches at Anzac,” says a brother war correspondent, “under heavy shell fire; in the messroom of a monitor, where naval men 1 ad gathered round him as round a man admired by brave men; under canvas on an Aegean Island, where he had been none the worse a host because of his wide experience of foraging. He is a man of supreme daring, of cool wit and brave conscience—a man after New Zealand’s own heart.” Few war correspondents can equal Mr. Ashmead Bartlett’s record; he has taken part in all the great campaigns of recent years, has had full training as a military officer and served in that capacity during the South African war. He was on the Majestic when she was torpedoed, and after being in the water for some time was rescued in an exhausted condition. Prior to the Dardanelles campaign he was with the Allies in France, and narrowly escaped being killed whilst on a visit to Rheims Cathedral.