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Express and Advertiser, June 26, 1915 pg. 11 (Photo with the news article)
MET ON THE BATTLEFIELD.
BURNLEY WOUNDED SERGEANTS'S LETTER.
In the No. 15 General Hospital at Alexandria is Sergt. Fred
Sutcliffe, of the 1/5th East Lancashire Territorials, suffering from
shrapnel wounds in the thigh which have broken the bone. The
soldier's home is at 53, Cog-street, Burnley, and writing to his
mother he describes his experiences. The letter is as follows:-"The
way I came to be wounded was in returning to the base for a rest after
a few days in the trenches. The enemy started shelling the roads and
gullies leading to the place where we were going to make our dug-outs,
and in one of these a shell burst, and although I dropped under cover
I was hit, the shrapnel catching me in the thigh. A second shell
burst in the same place but missed me, and then I was attended to by a
stretcher-bearer. More came up, who happened to belong to Burnley and
who knew me, so I was all right. Here (in hospital) I have on each
side of me an Australian and a New Zealander. They are a cheerful lot
of fellows and keep you quite merry, besides being of a kind and
genial disposition and generous nature."
Sergt. Sutcliffe has a brother in the R.A.M.C.
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