ROLL OF HONOUR

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 112, 13 May 1915, Page 8

ROLL OF HONOUR

NEW ZEALANDERS IN ACTION FOURTEEN MORE CASUALTIES TWO MEN DIE OF WOUNDS. THREE OFFICERS WOUNDED. The fifteenth casualty list of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force operating in the Dardanelles was issued by the Defence Department at 9 o'clock last evening, containing the names of two men died of wounds (previously reported wounded) and eleven men wounded. List No. 15a was furnished this morning, giving the names of three officers wounded. These bring the total casualties reported to the New Zealand Force to date to 730, being made up of 40 officers and men killed in action and died of wounds, one officer wounded and missing, one officer missing, and 688 officers and men' wounded. So far, the lists of men killed in action have not come to hand. TOTAL REPORTED TO DATE The details of the 16 casualty lusts issued up to 10.30 a.m. to-day are as under : — KILLED AND DIED OF WOUNDS. Officers. Men. Anckland Inf. Batt. ... 4 7 Canterbury Inf. Batt. ... 4 0 Otago Inf. Batt 2 16 Wellington Inf. Batt. ... 2 3 N.Z. Field Engineers' ... — 2 Totals 12 28 WOUNDED AND MISSINO. Officer. Otago Inf. Batt 1 MISSING. Officer. N.Z. Staff Corps 1 WOUNDED. Officers. Men. Headquarters N.Z. Division 1 0 Auckland Inf. Batt 10 177 Canterbury Inf. Batt. ... 5 93 Otago Inf. Batt 11 213 Wellington Inf. Batt. ... 8 136 N.Z. Field Artillery ... — 7 N.Z. Engineers 2 19 Divisional Signallers ... — 1 Army Medical Corpa ... — 5 Total* 37 651 Total casualties to date 730 REPORTED LAST NIGHT. Died of Wounds, Men. Otago Infantry Battalion 2 Wounded. Men. Otago Infantry Battalion 2 Auckland Infantry Battalion ... 2 Wellington Infantry Battalion... 6 Howitzer Battery . . ' 1 Total " ... 11 REPORTED TO-DAY AT 10.30 A.M. Officers Wounded. Auckland Infantry Battalion' ... 1 Wellington Infantry Battalion ... 2 Total « 3 LAST NIGHT'S LIST ELEVEN FRESH CASUALTIES. The 15th Casualty List issued by the Defence Department at 9 o'clock last night is as follows, the next-of-kin being given within parentheses: — DIED OF WOUNDS (11th May, 1915): OTAGO BATTALION. 8/100 Sergt. Percy Savage (Mrs. L. Stewart, 480, Drummond-street, Carlton, Melbourne, aunt). 8/925 Pte. Leonard Charles Harding (J. Harding, 38, Wilmer-street, Christchurch, father). Both of the above were previously reported as wounded. WOUNDED 8/1046 Pte. John Stanley Crawford (John Crawford, 8, Fea-street, Dalmore, Dunedin, father). 8/52 Pte. John Hossock (Mrs. W. Hossack, Ure-street, Oamaru, mother). 8/672 Pte. William George M'Gregor (Latheion M'Gregor, Caithness, Scotland). Previously reported. 8/1571 Pte. Richard Vallance Mason (A. Mason, Wait-street, Featherston). Previously reported. AUCKLAND BATTALION. 12/627 Pte. Frank Gunn (Mrs. P. A. Gunn, Mataroa, Westland, mother). 12/1122 Pte. Arthur John Phillips (Mrs. John Phillips, Burton-road, Point Chevalier, Auckland). WELLINGTON BATTALION. 10/755 -Pte. William Henry Biggs (William George Biggs, farmer, Matapu). 10/333 Pte. Fred Hordern Davey (W. H. Davey, James-street, Kensington, Timaru). 10/393 Pte. Albert Henry Hartley (Mrs. W. H. Hartley, Makowhai-road, Sanson, via Feilding). 10/823 Pte. Percival Neel Norman Jamieson (Robina Jamieson, c/o John 1 Jamieson, Petone, sister). 10/1328 Pte. Richard Rickard (Mr. D. Cooper, c/o Mrs. Famblyn, Bell Block, New Plymouth). 10/562 Pte. David Lionel Smith (Mr. C. Smith, Bank of New Zealand, Paimerston North). HOWITZER BATTERY. 2/981 Gun. Alexander Cook (Mrs. M. Wylie, Dalmany, Coronation-road, Epsom, Auckland, sister). TO-DAY J S LIST THREE OFFICERS WOUNDED. Casualty List No. 15a, issued at 10.30 a.m. to-day, is as under, the next of kin being given within parentheses : — (Reported 12th May, 1915.) WOUNDED AUCKLAND BATTALION. Major Edwin Harrowell (William L. Harrowell, the Court House, St. Prescot-street, London). WELLINGTON BATTALION. Lieut. Edward Talbot Rowlings (Edward Warne Rowlings, Victoria-avenue, Mount Eden, Auckland). Lieut. Raymond Lee (C. W. Lee, "Lyondown," St. John's Hill, Wanganui, father). , AUSTRALIAN FORCES NEW ZEALANDERS WOUNDED. Advice has been received from the Secretary, Defence, Melbourne, tbat^he

following have been wounded in action near the Dardanelles. Sergt. C. Lines, 9th Australian Infantry (next-of : kin, Edward John Lines, Kahahataki, Taranaki). ' Pte. D. Dennis, 12th Australian Infantry (next-of-kin; William Dennis, Huntly/ father). WOUNDED OFFICERS SOME PERSONAL SKETCHES. Major E. Harrowell, of the Auckland Infantry Battalion, who is reported to have been wounded, is a well-known New Zealand officer. He is a single man, 48 years of age, and served with both the Ist and 7th New Zealand contingents in South Africa. His war services are recorded in the Army List as follow :— " South African War, 18991902.—Relief of Kimberley. Operations in the Orange Free State, February to May, 1900, including operations at Paardeberg (17th to 26th February) ; actions at Poplar Grove, Dreifontein, Houtnek (Thoba Mountain), Vet River (sth and 6th May), and Zand River. Operations in the Transvaal in May and June, 1900, including actions near Johannesburg, Pretoria, and Diamond Hill (11th and 12th June). Operations in the Transvaal east of Pretoria, July to October, 1900. Operations in the Trahsvaal west of Pretoria. July to October, 1900. Operations in Cape Colony south of Orange River, November 1899 to Febmary 1900, including actions at Colesberg (Ist January to 7th February). Operations in the Transvaal, May to July, 1901, August to December, 1901. and April to May, 1902. Operations in the Orange River Colony, July to August, 1901, and December, 1901, to April, 1902. Queen's medal with five clasps. King's medal with two clasps." He served with the Ist Contingent as a sergeant and in the 7th Contingent as a captain. Upon < his return to New Zealand he identified himself with the Volunteer force in Auckland, and then took command of the Fijian Police. Later he was appointed officer commanding the military forces at New Caledonia, and was on furlough in New Zealand when the preseat " war broke out. He then enlisted in the New Zealand Expeditionary Force, being appointed major in the Auckland Infantry Battalion. Lieut. R. Lee of the Wellington Infantry Battalion, who is reported as wounded, was born at PahiatUa in 1891, and last resided in Masterton, where he was an architectural draughtsman by occupation. He is a single man, and belonged to the 17th (Ruahine) Regiment, in which he was a 2nd Lieutenant. Lieut. E. T. Rowlings, NIZ.S.C, Wellington Infantry Battalion, left New Zealand as a lieutenant in B Company, 3rd Reinforcements. He is a graduate of the Royal Military College, Duntroon, Australia, and is twenty-one years of age-