Norwich bulletin., 1915-11-04
Feuht at pardanelies.

Wilfrid Doyle, the I9-year-oid son
 of Mr. and Mrs, Edward Doyle, of
 Yonkers, N. Y-, is back at his home after seven months of adventure of the
 kind that most boys dream about but
 never experience. He has fought the
 Turk in trenches knee deep in water
 at the Dardanelles, he has been cap
 tured by the Germans in Belgium and
 he had stood watch many nights on the
 deck of the superdreadnought Queen
 Elizabeth while she patrolled the North Sea enforcing the blockade against Germany.
 The spring fever wearied young Doyle of the simple pleasures of life
 in Yonkers and he ran away from
 home He made his way to Boston, where he obtained a place as horse
 hostier on one of the transports en- gagged in carrying horses to the war
 zone. In Liverpool he left his ship and enlisted in the British navy. He l had little trouble in getting into the service, although an alien. He told
 the recruiting officer that he was an
 Irish boy, and so he Is, as his name
 proves His enlistment was for the
 duration of the war. but after six
 months of effort the State Department | of the United States plucked him from l the service of King George at the be-
 hest of his parents. A postal card
 he wrote to his mother directly after
 landing in Liverpool supplied the clue that lea 70 AlS discovery.
 Gallipoli, Doyle says, is now a sham
 bles and d ruin in the area over which
 the Turks have been slowly driven back by the Allies. Not so much as a
 drop of clean water may be obtained
 there. The streams and wells have
 been polluted by bodies and blood. All the water used by the Allies is filtered
 on the battieships. The trees in the woods that before the war dotted a fertile farming country have been re- duced to stumps.
 Doyle arrived at the Dardane1les in May, soon after the attack on the Turks had begun. During one period
 of heavy pressure he served for ;, AS hours on land in the third line Of 1 trenches. The men of the allied forces suffered fearfully, he says, at that time from the rains that flooded the trench almost unbearable. The enemy did not reach the third line, luckily. Had they done SC they: would have made short work of the sailors drawn in an | emergency from the fleet and little used to rifles and bayonets. While on this expedition Doyle saw
 Turkish girl sniper captured. A group of sailors relieved from trench duty were standing near a haystaels.
 One of them playfuIlg thrust his bay out 1t was covered with blood. The
 sailors immediately tore the stack
 apart and discovered a young giri l armed with a rife in c hoiiowed space. l She had been on her knees ct loop | hole when the bayonst point caught
 her in the arm. Beside her wac found
 a supply of food and 36 Identification
 discs of the kind worn by ali sailors
 and soldiers in Britain's service. It I was the belief of her captors that she had killed that may soldiers in the 1 trenches within range and had then stolen out and cut their identification | discs from their neSks. 0Syfe Se. turned to his ship soon after the girl
 was captured and he did not learn of I her fate. | On board the Queen Elizabeth Doyle l met Corporal Joseph Nicolson. the 1 only survivor of a regiment of Royal I Scots, which was annihiiated on April
 3. After leaving a transport the sol I diers were taken to the fighting front l on board the Queen Elizabeth. An hour after arriving. at 2 o'clock in the I afternoon. the regiment charged. Ii | was not properly supported and was I annfhilated. At o'clock that after noon a survivor crawled back into the ttrenchaa- Ha died later on the war'--