CAPTURED NEW ZEALANDER

Camp News, Volume 2, Issue 90, 19 September 1941, Page 7

CAPTURED NEW ZEALANDER

Experiences On Crete

To be wounded twice, to live in 'iding for four days in a cave before being cap fared by Germans, and then to be flow: from Crete to Greece, where in lospita he received treatment from a New Zea land doctor and New Zealand iderlie.who, like himself, were prisoners of war. was the experience of Second-Lieutenant J. C. McPhail, Opapa, told in a letter to a friend.

Second-Lieutenant McPhail stales tha: tie first received a flesh wound, and aihour or so later was hit a second time, oil this occasion receiving a fractured leg He was carried to a cave and with othei wounded men remained there for four' days before being overtaken by GermanThe wounded were then dispatched b\ plane from Crete to Greece, and while in hospital he was agreeably surprised find that he was being treated by a N<?» Zealand doctor and that the orderliewere New Zealanders.

“I am being treated exceptionally well, he : writes, “and others to whom I have spoken also say that they are being well treated.”