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Letter from the Front.Private Allen Reed (of Pinnaroo) writes from Gallipoli Peninsula :—Corporal W. Westbury’s many Pin-naroo friends will be glad to know he Is buck again in the flriug line looking splendid. Bill was one of • the wounded sent to England. He tells me he had a splendid time while there and was taken about everywhere and treated like a lord. He is now looking for another chance to knock a few more Turk's heads out of time. Billy is highly amused with the respiration and smoke helmet. Up to date we have not found It necessary to use either. The Turks play the game fairly well, though In a few instances they might have been more carefu}. Billy and the rest have taken a note of tliei** indiscretions and when the time comes tin* Turkey Lollle crowd will suffer. Jim Smythe went away last week suffering from slight wounds. His was a most remarkable escape. A big 8-Inch shell hurst about 35 feet from lilm and blew several oil drums filled with rifle oil to bits. Yet all Jim got was a gash In the upper part of one of his legs and another wound in the aym. No one here seems to know where W. Christoferson te. Sergeant Jim McLaohbtn wnB quite well about a fortnight ago. Of the Parllla men here. Q. M. Sergeant Burford, Privates Klrwnn and Maxwell are still going strong. The last three are just as ready as ever for a game of football. Those of our number who were sent away wounded have been able to send home full accounts of our doings here, bur those of us remaining are restricted to limitations.I have heard of the memorial to be erected at the Pinnaroo School to perpetuate the gallant death of our much beloved comrade. Private Percy Venn lug. Let me say here that Percy was all a man should be. and he met his death in a glorious way. The men in the trendies could not keep awake because of their thirst. Volunteers wore called and Percy and another man at once offered to go for water. A terrific .fire was being poured into the trenches from machine guns. Roth lads leaped out the back of the trench and started their terrible journey. I do not know whether Percy was struck when leaving the trenches, but he received n bullet In the stomach in that gallant n I tempt. Our chum was taken away in the hospital ships, hut we did not learn until a month later that he had died of wounds. All that night the Tufts ponnded hell into the trenches. It was not till next day that Percy’s mate was able to tell what had happened to him. Everyone loved this lad fdr what he was—a soldier and a man. When ic came to a hazardous task he was one of the first to go. We who knew him so intimately look hack with pride at the thought of having him for a comrade and friend. A memorial at the old school Is in Itself most fitting, and will go to show the material first turned out from there. It should help and be an Incentive to those attending and those to follow, to follow in his footsteps—-the first to give his life for those be loved. How fitting those words in hi* memory. Greater love bath no man that he glveth his life for bis friend.
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Pinnaroo and Border Times
Pinnaroo, South Australia, AU
Fri, Oct 15, 1915
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