PERSONAL

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXVII, Issue 9128, 25 October 1917, Page 4

PERSONAL

Mrs McGinn, Hampstead, has re- .*■ ccived advice ttiat her son, Private J. ■ A. McGinn, who was wounded in the fac<>, will return Home at au wtriy date.

Gunner G. R. Allard, reported killed in action, is a brother or Mr C. W. ' Allard, one or the masters at the Ashburton Borough School. Gunner . Allard, . who was farming in North Canterbury, enlisted with 5, ,the Kour- - teenth Reinforcements.

, Mr, T. Morgan, Ashburt'oh/ 1 received advice to-day that his brother, Private , David Morgan, Was wounded in the right leg on October 4. Private Morgan, left with the Twcntyfourch Reiniorcements.

Lieutenant Keith Smith, reported lulled in action, was a son of Mr W. H. Smith, the- well-known Manawatu journalist. Prior tv enlisting, Lieutenant Smith was sub-editor on theManawatu " Daily Times." , ' ' Mr M. J. Moriarty, Ashburton, has received advice that his brother, Privato J. J. Moriarty, who left with the I4bh Battalion of the Australian Jm- , perial -Forces, has been admitted to tho Devonport Military Hospital suffering, from a gunshot wound ■ in th«. thigh. _ Information has been received in Ashburton' that Private Alfred William" Nordstrom, the second son'of tta«> , late Mrs A. W. Nordstrom, of Tinwald, has been killed In action in Franco. ' Private Nordstrom was born and educated at Tinwald. His elder brother Herman was also killed in action. A younger brother has been called up , under class C 2. . Mr Rogers, Coldstroam, reeeive(.|j| word on -Monday la-ht that his only sori^B F. W. J. Rogers, is dangerously ili from 1 gunshot wounds in arm, neck, itiid oar, and in in" hospital at Boulogne. Private Rogers left with the Eighteenth Reinforcements, and went

through tho-battles of Ancre and Mcf" sies unscathed.

Jilr 11. Tremain, Tinwald, hat- b*'en advised that his son, Corporal R. J. Tremain, has l>eon wounded in the left hand. Corporal Tremain left with the Twenty-fifth Reinforcements. Advice has been received that Private John Church, son of Mrs Church, Tanered Street, has been killed in action. Private Church left with theFourteenth Reinforcements, and prior to enlisting was employed in the National Mortgage' and Agency Com- ' pany's local office. The flag on the firm's premises was flown at hall-mast to-day .out of respect to the memory of the deceased soldier. *

Mr and Mrs D. O'Connor, Hinds, hare been notified of the death horn wonnds of their son, Rifleman Timothy J. O'Connor, on October 13. Rifleman O'Connor was 29 years of ago, andVa* born and educated at Hinds. Prior to enlisting, ho was engaged in the Ktuvpuna district. One of his brothers rs serving in France. The Rev. J. R. Burgin (formerly Vicar of St. Stephen's, Ashburton) left Auckland last evening en route to Ashburton. Mr Biirgin left New Zealand as- chaplain with the 3rd and 4th. ,- Battalions of the -Rifle, Brigade: H»'V was gassed' on" t;ho Somm'e, and aftor -his'return'to New Zealand in" May last \ was appointed chaplain to returneiT • spldiors and to certain institutions under the Defence Department. Mrs .W. McGecv Burnett Street, receive^ .official advice yesterday that her husband, Private W. McGoo, wa«f '. Killed in uetioti on October 4. Priv.<yfc4 McGe© was born and educated a^y> Window, ami left with the EigliteenfwW Rftinforcenionts. ' "jyirs .T[. Lindsay, of Trevorton. Ashhurton, received word lat,fc evening that her ■ sixth son, Rifleman Herberi( .Creif^h GlendiimiiiK, \\ as killed Jn action in Prance on October <J. B.ifleman Glendinniiifi- Jeft New Zealand with the Twentieth Reinforcements, Wmiip. ni;u' inotilhs under 20 ycju't of ajjo when Ju i t'lili.stod. Ile-^vas «!»-•' cated at the [lamp«>tead School, and ' prior to- eulibting was employed with Messrs Rmith and Sons.

Actintr-SVrtionnt-Major C. !MeKoo-» »,in, M.C , who loturnod to sAshbn>to» IvestordaA, was this mormnp; \vol((rm» jrf by tho staff ot fcho Now Zoaland V.umers' Co-opoiaii\o Association Mr "T, J. KuuttU", uianagoi, on behalf of the stitiV, oo'i'fiatitlitofl Iheu* fomier fnmrado, i'lcl on^moss^c! the hopo that his wound * onld snon be bettoi, anil Ih.it ht> wij'ild bp iblp to tako im his old dutios in tho land depaiburnt o€ tho firm