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From: The AUCKLAND WEEKLY NEWS 04.11.1915

This magazine is recorded on microfilm and can be accessed at the Auckland City Library.

 

TOFUA

WIMMS, L/Cpl Joseph,DCM, 23 yrs, ASC, returned in the hospital ship Tofua '…a tall, good-looking, well educated youth…..' He won his decoration immediately after landing on April 25. Worked with an Indian mule train, taking ammunition to the 4th Australian Brigade, the only white man with this troop. In his 17 weeks on Gallipoli, he was in Shrapnel Valley and had been through the famous four days battle in August. On 18th August he was attacked by fever, sent to Egypt and invalided home. He hopes to return to the front as soon as his two months leave expires. [AWN 11.11.1915]

SURVIVOR OF THE MARQUETTE [AWN 11.11.1915]

Among the survivors from the Marquette was Sergeant F C BENFIELD. He was on the staff of the No.1 Stationary Hospital and as his name did not appear in any of the lists published recently, his wife, who is now in Auckland, telegraphed to the authorities in Wellington. She received a reply that Sgt Benfield was on the transport and survived the disaster. [AWN 11.11.1915]

 

Transcribed: 2002 by Jackie Walles, New Zealand

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