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Helmet and Fuse Cap belonging to 2 Regimental Quartermaster Sergeant Thomas Henry DARLEY, 9th Light Horse Regiment.
The work of Tucker Time Liz was to wreak havoc and occasionally it did with devastating results. Saturday, 12 June 1915 the observers for Tucker Time Liz saw a group of mules and their Indian drivers from a Mountain Battery. They opened fire on them and killed three Indians, 10 ponies and 12 mules from the Indian Mule Corps. The terrified Indians drove their mounts from their own gully into the gully occupied by the 9th LHR while all the time being followed by Tucker Time Liz. Then one shell landed directly on Darley’s dugout killing his batman, 273 Private Alexander Lincoln Hawson and severely wounding the storemen 343 Private Richard Thomas Stewart and 6 Sergeant Frank Maddeford.
Sadly for the Regiment, another person wounded by the shrapnel on that occasion was the commander of A Squadron, Major Alfred Edward Cook. He was struck in the chest. He was evacuated to Malta where began to recuperate at the Blue sisters Hospital in Malta. At one stage he looked like he was recovering but then he suddenly died on 4 July 1915.