NEWS OF N.Z. SOLDIERS AND NURSES.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 39, 15 February 1916, Page 8

NEWS OF N.Z. SOLDIERS AND NURSES.

(From Our Special Correspondent.) LONDON. December 30. Mr. Hector McQuarrie. of Auckland, who, on the outbreak of war, was in Portugal, came over to England and enlisted in the 19th Hussars, and after six weeks as a trooper, obtained a commission in the Royal Field Artillery. He has now been in France for about six months.

Mr. Melville Andrews, of Palmerston North, who arrived in London at the beginning of the month by the Arawa, intends to join the Royal Naval Air Service, and for the present is staying at tbe Waverley Hotel.

Mr. Gilbert Clark, of Ponsonby, who came to England to offer his services, has joined the Artists' Rifles Officers' Training Corps, and is now undergoing a six weeks' course of training at the headquarters in Duke's Eoad, Eustoo, prior to going into camp at Gidea Park. Captain H. C. Critchlev-Salmonson, of the Royal Munster Fusiliers, who was Adjutant of the Canterbury Infantry Battalion, until he was wounded some months ago, is returning to New Zealand about the end of January as Assistant Infantry Instructor, as he will not be fit for service for a considerable time.

sergeant B. N. Sandlands. of Feilding, who was shot in the head nad has since been suffering from double pneumonia and enteric, has now recovered, and is on furlough.

Trooper M. Desmond, of Feilding, who was shot in the hip, is now on furlough, and has visited Ireland and the Midlands and is now in London.

The following Sew Zealanders are at present in hospital at Walton-on-Thames:— Robert Adamson. James Attwood, Victor lan Aspinall. Gerald Holmwood Anderson: George William Blu.v den. Leslie Ashton Bluett. Arthur Wm. Bright, George Arthur Ball. Harry Edmund Ball. Edwin Bestic. Clifford Fynn Buxton. Stanley Bevan. John Laurence Brownlie, George Jefferv Black. Leo Brookes, Ernest Charles Booker, Sydney Bryant. William Buchan. Felix Carroll. Eric Evelyn Carew, Norman Champney. Alex. Edward Cocper, Wm. Robert Chirm. Thos. Edwin Collins, Frank Mark Collins, Albert Stephen Crowther, Sidney Blake Crawford, Fredk. Charles Colston. Norman Clark. Charles Chcgwidden. Wm. Francis Dennan. John Douglas. John William Domney, Peter Augustus De Lorce, Robr, Thomas Earnshaw, Harold Edward Elliott, Harold Norman Freeman, Francis Minter Furness. John Goode, James Francis Gibson, Arthur Harvey, William Hamilton, Reg. Hunter. Charles Albert Jenkins, Percival Noel Jamieson, Robert Noel Johnson, Edward Joseph, George Wm. Kerr. Roland Geo. Kingsland, Clifford Keilar, John Alex. Larkin, Archibald Hall Lange. Dennis Lawlor, Henry Reed Lister, Arthur Wilfred Lewis, John Theodore Lloyd, James Arthur Linton, Milton Morison, Douglas Wallace Masterton. Wm. John McEnemy. David McBurney, Henry Edward McGahey, Norman Leonard MrGanagale. Samuel McMahon, Gilbert John McMeeking, Alex. George Macdonald. Kenneth Gordon Maclennan. Thomas Matthews, Almo Douglas Mitchelson. Charles Bainton Murray. John Smith Nelson. Wm. Roy Oakley. Hugh O'Neill. James Paton. John Pope, Frank John Pearse. Gerald Mervyn Purchas, Daniel Prvde. Robert rvobertson, James Murray Robertson, Alex. Rogers, Fredk. Walter Read, Robin Reston. Alfred Riches. Edwin James Suff, Phillip David Sinclair. Frank Albert Shirley. Charles Duncan Simpson, Robert Simpson, Wm. Savage, George Victor Snell, Samuel Waldcn Staples, John Digby Smith. George Joseph Tavlor, Theodore Trezise. Mark Tnite, George Walker. Rosewell James Watson. Arthur Peter Williams. Harry Guthrie Whishaw George Wm. Wright. <