PROGRESS OF THE WOUNDED

Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 309, 29 December 1915, Page 6

PROGRESS OF THE WOUNDED

SOLDIERS TUT HOSPITAL. REPORTS FROM ALEXANDRIA. A hospital progress report was issued by the Defence Department last night containing the names of soldiers suffering from various forms of illness. The lists last night contained the name of Harr3' Booth, Army Service Corps, reported to have died of peritonitis, and of Robert Carlisle Shennan, Field Engineers, previously reported to have died, but now reported in hospital. Admitted hospital, Alexandria, enteric:— Headquarters. —H. S. McAlister, slight. Wellington Mounted Rifles.—H. C. Belliss, severe; J. Sheehan, severe. Canterbury Mounted Rifles.—Sergt. J. W. Scaly, severe. Artillery.—J. P. Thomson, slight. Wellington Battalion.—E. C. Fortune, severe. Rifle Brigade.—W. Dixon. Admitted hospital, Alexandria: — Wellington Mounted Rifles.—Corp. J. Watts, severe gastric enteritis. CanterDury Mounted Rifles.—Sergt. J. Bosomworth, appendicitis; A. Irving, severe jaundice; J. Shepherd, severe frostbite, feet. Artillery.—E. M. Lake, gunshot, thigh; C. Scown, enteric and jaundice, slight. Engineers.—D. Kilpatrick, pyrexia; W. A. Trask, enteric and jaundice, severe. Auckland Battalion. —A. Blyde, scalded foot; A. Tomes, nephritis, severe. Canterbury Battalion. —R. J. Glen, gastritis; J. S. Hyett, sprained ankle, slight; T. L. Jones, jaundice, moderate. Otago Battalion. —Sergt. C. R. Bell, abcess, slight; J. Jordan, bronchitis, severe; L. I. Russell, septic finger. Rifle Brigade.—D. Carter, mumps, slight. Reported dangerously ill, Alexandria, gunshot, chest: — Canterbury Mounted Rifles.—Corp. L. D. Carte. Removed from dangerously ill list to seriously ill list, Cottonera: — Wellington Mounted Rifles.—Lieut. A. L. 0. Hewitt. Removed from seriously ill list, Malta: — Otago Mounted Rifles.—J. T. Brown. Disembarked Malta, slightly sick:— Canterbury Battalion. —Corp. A. E. Smith. Medical Corps.—Corp. A. E. Haider.