| Other Info | 13th Battalion Worcestershire Regiment attached to the 4th Battalion. Killed in action 27th November 1915 (age ?) by a snipers bullet whilst repairing a wire. AZMAK CEMETERY, SUVLA, Turkey - grave I. A. 9.
One of his letters home dated 31st October 1915, read as follows:
"We are at a place called Gun Hill which gives us a fine view of the surrounding country and we can see the battleships and get beautiful cool breezes up here during the evening. I was coming back from visiting one of the guns and I had to come across 100 yards of open ground -just as I started there started a rapid fire from the Turks - I dropped like a stone and crouched behind a boulder for quarter of an hour with bullets hurtling all around me."
Your revolver accompanies me at all night rounds on account of the large number of lurk snipers we get here and they are glorious shots too but I haven't had the chance of a shot yet. But we live in hopes – now Hamilton has gone perhaps Munro will give us a job to do but the trouble is we haven't got sufficient men
to support us – why cant they have conscription!"
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