HEROES OF THE DARDANELLES

Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 118, 19 May 1915, Page 5

HEROES OF THE DARDANELLES

4 TWO OFFICERS AND FIVE MEN DEAD. FOUR AUCKLANDERS IN THE LIST. , Two lists of casualties in the New Zealand Expeditionary Force were issued by the Defence Department yesterday. They reported that one officer had been killed in action, and that one officer and five men had died of wounds, the officer and two of the men having previously been reported as. wounded. An additional list of one officer and 103 men who have been wounded was also published. The twenty-second list, published in our last issue, contained the names of 86 non-commissioned officers and men of the Auckland Infantry Battalion who had been wounded. The twenty-third list, issued last evening, reported the following casualties:—Auckland Battalion, one oflicer killed in action, and one officer wounded; Wellington Battalion, one officer ami four men died of wounds, six men wounded; Canterbury Battalion, nine men wounded: Otago Battalion, three men wounded; Xew Zealand Engineers, one noncommissioned officer died of wounds. During the operations against Turkey the force lias suffered a total of 1289 casualties. Twenty-six officers have been killed in action or succumbed to wounds. 6-2 non-commissioned officers and men have died of wounds, four men have died from disease, two officers are missing, and r>B officers and 11-0 men have been wounded. These losses have been shared by the various units as follows: —

TWO MORE OFFICERS DEAD.

(By Trlesranh—Tress Association.) WELLINGTON". May 18. Further lists of casualties in the Xcw Zealand Expeditionary Force were issued by the Defence Department to-day. In each case the name and the address of the.next of kin named by the eoldier are given. KILLED IN ACTION. Jri IIBUI. (late Corporal) STVABT GRAHAM TEMPLETON REID (3rd, Auckland, Company, Auckland Infantry Battalion)— Mary 0. Reid, Dilworth Avenue, Remuera, Auckland. DIED Or WOUNDS. 2ICD LIEUT. BZRXT BAWLIRGS COWAN 117 th. Ruahine. Company, Wellington Battalion).—Henry Cowan, brewer, Mangatamoka. SERGT. A, WALLACE (Xew Zealand Engineers; British section.) CORPORAL JOSEPH CLAFFEY (Wellington Batta.lion). Reported on May 17 to. have been wounded;— J; tiaffpy, Vogcitown. Nev Plymouth. ROBERT JAMES DAY (Wellington Battalion).—Robert Day, Krugrredorp, South Africa (father). WILLIAM ELLIOTT (Wellington Battalion). Reported on May 17 to have been wounded.—W. E. Elliott, Blenheim (father). .ARTHUR MORRIS TURNER (Wellington Battalion).-Edwin Turner, 27, South Street, Chichceter, Sussex. OFFICER, WOUNDED. LIEUT, date. Sergt.-Major) JOHN WILLIAM FLETCHER (Auckland Battalion).—S. A. Fletcher, Hclensrille (wife). LIEUT. GRAHAM REltt left with the rank of corporal, in the 3rd Auckland Infantry, but his keen interest in the work and his natural ability were such that his subsequent promotion is not at all surprising. He was the only oon of Mrs. J. Stuart Reid, of Dilworth Avenue, Kcmuera. and was thirty-one yeare of age. After leaving King's College he entered the service of the Northern Steamship Company, and subsequently was chief clerk for Messrs. Anderson and Colbeek, sharebrokers. Some two years ago he started business a* a company secretary, and also acted as secretary to the Auckland .Merchants' Association. As soon as the call for men was made he and several of his intimate friends were among the first to join the ranks of the Auckland quota. Lieut. Reid was a prominent member of the Kings College Old Boys , Association, in which he held all the offices at various times including that'of president, also of the Auckland Golf club, the Yacht Club, and several other athletic and social organisations. Deceased had a very wide circle of friends and his relatives will have their sincere sympathy. The late Lieutenant Reid was also" secretary of the Citizens' Defence League. He evidently won his commission in the field, during recent operations at the Dardanelles, for a letter received by his cousin (Mr W Hanilin) this morning written on April «. just before leaving Cairo, stated that he still had only a corporal's stripes. " It 1,, feared that the SERGEAXT A. WALLACE, of the British section of the New Zealand hn-iineers on active service, who is repotted to have died of wounds, is Alan Wallace, the brilliant youn X Aucklander who was tho Rhodes Scholar for 1912. Mr Alan Wallace was the son of Mr (icor"e WaiWe, .manager of the gasworks at DevonpoTt. Ho was h o in in Vuekland md was educated at the Ponsonby School, the Auckland Grammar School" and the Auckland I niversity College. He graduated in l!»10. after an excen t.onally brilliant scholastic career, gaining in that year the senior scholarships in mathematics, applied mathematics nnd chemistry. His athletic recoTd was also an excellent one. and he was not only a member of the L'niver*itv t ncket Club, but represented Auckland in 1910-11 in interprovineial matched H« was ,Ue» member of the senior cloven o f the North Shore Association football club When he went to Oxford. Alan Wallace entered at Balliol College, and last year he graduated with first-claw honours in* mathematics He was also a member of the first eleven. He was staving on or a third year at Oxford, and had intended to read up honours in education, but a he at X WBr ° '" tl>C XCW Zea,aDd contin S onl that was mobilised There seems to have beon some mistnVe regarding the renort i« t n *v sick-new of UEUTEXAXT J. H. HERROLD. with th^Aucklad He" mint of Mountcl Rifles Definite advice has now been received from Lieu tenant Herrold that he is quite well. Private advice hae been received from CAPTAIN J ]1 BARTLETT second in command of the North Auckland Company of the Auckland Infantry Battalion, who was reported among the wounded in one of the recent li<ts. that he is progressing satisfactorily. PRIVATE G. MULDROCK. reported among the wounded ill the Wellington Infantry Battalion, is a son of Mr W. H. Muldrock. ji settler of Maunu writes our Whangitrei correspondent. PRIVATE If. PK'KARD, who died of wounds, was a brother of .Mrs J. Palmer, of Whangarei. A private cable has been received in Auckland from MAJOR E. HARKOWELL (who was reported among the wounded on the 13th inst.). statin" that, he is progressing favourably. Major Harrowell was second in command of the Auckland Infantry Battalion. A private cable, received this morning, announces that PRIVATE \ TROXSOX, of Wanganui. who was wounded during the early oiK'rtitions at the Dardanelles, is sit present in hospital nwongnt the New Zealand wounded taken to England Private Tronson ie a jotarnalish, and several interesting letters froinVis pen have anpeared in theso columns since the troops left New Zealand SERGT. JOSEPH G. GASPARICH, whose name appeared In n recent list' ..! men wounded in the Dardanelles, is the eldest son of Mr \ Gasparich of KingslaivJ. He is 24 years of : .<>e. and has been a school teacher for -o'nie years.. When-lie lie was on the staff of the Huhora school, near Whangarei., At Kaiirii he commenced his education, nnd when hw people moved, to- Auckland he entered the Training College here and made excellent progress-in his'studies. He obtained a first-class certificate for art in the »oulh .Kensington examination for moUel drawing. ] n 1010 lip was cant-iin of ;: .the Lniyereity r Junior fifteens, and all the time he was at colle-e he estab Lened: records in .every branch of sport. He played in representative teams for football, cricket, hockey and tennis. •" PRIVATE FRED.. ROGERS, who was killed in action while "servm--with" he ■Australian forces at the Dardanelles, was at one time a resident of Oha kune, and was well'known in the district. ' DRIVER J. S. WALSH, one.of the. Aucklander serving with the fctt^wSJßS I ®^*"* and rcponcd arao,,g the ~ deJ ' PRn-ATE A. T. ELWOOD, whose name appears in a recent list of w_ounded. was (write* our Ohakune correspondent) a well known v OU n- man ot Onakune, where he was prominent in football circles. * c PRIVATE. RALDRIDGE, who has also been reported anion- the wounded, is a brother of Mr S. Aldridge, of Ohakune. ° PRIVATE X. P. PATTULO, whoee name appeared in the Canterbury '. ie A t l^r^ O A2t^ii S T a T O rT 0f » R Sir P - L> Pa - ttal6 ' °f Kan >o. Another brother. LANCE-COBPORAL- J. PATTULO, is also reported among, the-^ounde4.

Officers. X.C.O.'s anil lien. Killed. Missing. Wounded. Killed. Wounded. Headquarters •.-.••.-.»-...■»......», — 1 1 — Auckland Infantry ...„..,.....( U — 19 It 343 Wellington Infantry 6 — 11 u 23-t Canterbury Infantry «,-......« 7 — 11 4 243 Otago Infantry 2 1 16 30 301 Field Artillery ............ . — — _ 0 Field Engineers * ■— — 2 4 2:3 Signalling Service ••».« 1 Army Service Corps .»...«...-.•« — 3 Field Ambulance — o 'J" 011, * 26 -2 60 66 1133