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4 Thursday <strong>April</strong> <strong>13</strong> <strong>2017</strong><br />
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Diary of Gallipoli surgeon brought<br />
SERVICE: Dr Percival Fenwick<br />
during the Boer War in 1900. <br />
“A more hellish Sunday<br />
one could not conceive.<br />
“Total to date 5000 (approximately)<br />
casualties,<br />
about three men per yard<br />
of ground gained.”<br />
• By Gabrielle Stuart<br />
“IT SEEMED impossible<br />
for men to live under the<br />
hail of bullets” – that was<br />
how Christchurch surgeon<br />
Lieutenant-Colonel Percival<br />
Fenwick described his<br />
experience at Gallipoli.<br />
He was one of the first New<br />
Zealanders ashore at Anzac<br />
Cove on <strong>April</strong> 25, 1915, and kept<br />
a diary of the horrifying things<br />
he saw there.<br />
Parts of his diary have now<br />
been used in a new project,<br />
Ngā Tapuwae First World War<br />
Trails, which tells stories from<br />
battlefields where New Zealanders<br />
fought.<br />
It was designed as a guide for<br />
people visiting the battlefields in<br />
person for Anzac commemorations,<br />
but can also be listened<br />
to while exploring the scenes<br />
online.<br />
Lt Col<br />
Fenwick’s<br />
granddaughter,<br />
Philippa Horn<br />
(right), said his<br />
diary was only<br />
discovered after<br />
his death.<br />
“He very seldom spoke about<br />
those things. <strong>The</strong> only thing<br />
PROJECT: Dr Fenwick’s diary is being used to tell stories of battlefields where New Zealanders<br />
fought. He is seen here in 1945 (left) and cutting the hair of a World War 1 soldier in Gallipoli.<br />
he ever said, that I remember,<br />
was that he was ashamed to<br />
come out of Gallipoli alive,” she<br />
said.<br />
He was sent home after two<br />
months at the front because he<br />
developed paratyphoid, but he<br />
wrote several letters to the army<br />
in protest, asking to be sent<br />
back, she said.<br />
When World War 2 broke out,<br />
then aged 69, he wrote letters<br />
again asking to be allowed to<br />
serve, but was told he was too<br />
old.<br />
Mrs Horn said he had served<br />
in the Boer War for three years<br />
as a younger man, and was<br />
strongly driven to try to help<br />
and heal as many as he could on<br />
the battlefield.<br />
In peacetime he worked as<br />
a surgeon for many years in<br />
Christchurch, where he met his<br />
wife, Nona Wright, a nurse at<br />
Bottle Lake Hospital.<br />
Mrs Horn said he was “everything<br />
a grandfather should have<br />
been”.<br />
“He had a lovely sense of humour<br />
and was always so pleased<br />
to see us,” she said.<br />
His story can be found at<br />
www.ngatapuwae.nz in the<br />
Holding the Line section of the<br />
Gallipoli Trail.<br />
Thanks<br />
for your<br />
patience<br />
as we work on the<br />
city’s roads and pipes<br />
Avonhead Road wastewater<br />
upgrade project<br />
Planning underway<br />
AVONHEAD<br />
Northwest water supply<br />
deep well upgrades<br />
Construction underway<br />
Completion <strong>April</strong> <strong>2017</strong><br />
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UPPER<br />
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Riccarton area wastewater<br />
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Construction underway<br />
Completion October <strong>2017</strong><br />
RICCARTON<br />
REDWOOD<br />
Cranford Street<br />
wastewater replacement<br />
Construction starts May <strong>2017</strong><br />
Completion October <strong>2017</strong><br />
PAPANUI<br />
BURWOOD<br />
ST ALBANS<br />
Riccarton area water<br />
supply replacement<br />
projects<br />
Construction underway<br />
Completion November <strong>2017</strong><br />
Here’s some key<br />
projects happening<br />
this year<br />
Bealey Avenue NEW BRIGHTON resurfacing<br />
Completion <strong>April</strong> <strong>2017</strong><br />
New Brighton road resurfacing<br />
Construction starts October <strong>2017</strong><br />
Completion March 2018<br />
As SCIRT finishes, Christchurch<br />
City Council will continue<br />
repairing and improving the<br />
city’s damaged pipes and roads.<br />
We’ve budgeted over $600<br />
million over the next five years<br />
to repair our services, and have<br />
several major projects underway<br />
across Christchurch on top of<br />
this budget.<br />
South East Halswell new<br />
wastewater project<br />
Construction starts December WIGRAM 2016<br />
Completion November <strong>2017</strong><br />
LYTTELTON<br />
HORNBY<br />
HALSWELL<br />
South East Halswell new<br />
water supply project<br />
Construction underway<br />
Completion November <strong>2017</strong><br />
Beckenham/Colombo Street<br />
wastewater upgrade<br />
Construction starts May <strong>2017</strong><br />
Completion June 2018<br />
SPREYDON<br />
Centaurus road resurfacing<br />
Construction starts October <strong>2017</strong><br />
Completion CASHMERE March 2018<br />
LINWOOD<br />
Lyttelton Harbour<br />
wastewater project<br />
Construction starts June <strong>2017</strong><br />
Completion end of 2021<br />
BROMLEY<br />
Waltham Road<br />
WOOLSTON Resurfacing<br />
Construction starts<br />
October <strong>2017</strong><br />
Completion March 2018<br />
Lyttelton retaining walls<br />
Construction underway<br />
Completion May-June <strong>2017</strong><br />
FERRYMEAD<br />
LYTTELTON<br />
Peacocks Gallop wastewater<br />
replacement<br />
Construction starts <strong>April</strong>/May <strong>2017</strong><br />
Completion July <strong>2017</strong><br />
Redcliffs Main Road<br />
resurfacing<br />
Construction starts<br />
October <strong>2017</strong><br />
Completion March 2018<br />
SUMNER<br />
Sumner-Lyttelton<br />
Corridor road repair<br />
Construction underway<br />
Completion 2018<br />
LITTLE RIVER<br />
Akaroa Wastewater scheme<br />
WAINUI<br />
Scheme progressing through<br />
consent phase<br />
AKAROA<br />
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