ROLL OF HONOUR.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 51, 29 February 1916, Page 6

ROLL OF HONOUR.

CAREERS OF THE FALLEN.

I TROOPER R. H. HILDRETH. Trooper Richard Henderson Hildreth who was recently reported as having been admitted to Pont de Koubbeh Hospital on 1-ebruary 8 suffering from an injury a° ?"?° f* hiß legs, dieted with the Auckland Mounted Rifles, and left with the Seventh Reinforcements. His mother is Mrs. M. Hildreth, of Putaruru, Waikato He was born in Nelson, South Island and is now thirty years of ago. For three years he served in the Territorials, and prior to his enlistment had been farming for several years in the V\ aikato. He has a brother serving with the Expeditionary Force. PRIVATE ERIC H. CLARK. News has lately been received by Mr J. Clark, 3, Lee Street, Parnell, that hie eldest son, Private Eric Hamilton Clark of the 14th Otago Infantry, previously reported missing, was believed to have been killed on the Ist or 2nd May. Private Clark, who was 23 years of age, left New Zealand with the Second Reinforcements, was in training in Egypt for about* three months, during which time Ins mother heard regularly from him His last letter, saying he was leaving for the Dardanelles that night, was written on IQth April,. 1915. Alter" tliat no word was heard of or from him until on June 13 a telegram arrived saying that he had been missing since Ist May. In spite of all inquiries nothing further was heard of him until official notice wae received on February 2 reporting him beiieved to have been killed. Previous to enlisting, Private Clark was an engine driver in the empioy of Messrs. Lamb and Dyson, contractors, Auckland. Hβ passed his first engineer's examination on November 2, enlisted the same morning and left for Trentham that night. Private Clark has also two brothers serving their country — Private Jack Clark, who left New Zealand with the Ninth Reinforcements, and Percy Clark monition worker in the Woolwich Arsenal, London.

RIFLEMAN F. W. KEMP. Rifleman Frederick William Kemp, whose name is mentioned in a recent hoepital and progress report, is the eldest son of Mr. Richard Kemp, of Papirata. He is now 31 years of age, and was born in Brookby. He is one of four brothers, all of whom are with the colours, two of them being at the front, while another, Allen Mortimer Kemp! was wounded at Gallipoli in the fierce fighting of August 10. The fourth brother is on the way to the front at the present time. Rifleman F. W. Kemp was for some time an officer in the Salvation Army, but prior to his enlistment he had been engaged for a considerable period on his farm at Paparata. He ie a member of the First Battalion of tbe New Zealand Rifle Brigade, and is at present a patient at hospital with a severe attack of dysentery. i

COLONEL DAVIDSON, D.S.O. Mrs. Davidson Las received the following information concerning Colonel E. G. Davidson, D.5.0., from a captainadjutant of the French Foreign Legion under date Paris, January 4th: "I have the honour to report that your husband has been taken prisoner after elightly wounded and gassed. He, with a company of the Foreign Legion, made a heroic defence of the position, and hia name has been forwarded for the Cjoss. of the Legion of Honour. He is quite safe, although a prisoner probably for the duration of the war. Any news will bo forwarded if it is available." Colonel Davidson visited his parents in Neleon some time ago 'on leave from the Peruvian Army. He is an old boy of Nelson College, and 6aw eervke in South Africa.

WITH THE AUSTRALIANS.

NEW ZEALANDERS ILL. (Received 8.45 a.m.) SYDNEY, this day. Liet No. 147 contains the names of the following New Zealandeis:—Hl: Lieut. C. Henry, in hospital at Heliopolie; Privates L. T. Levy, R. H. Alford, Sapper H. Stunell, in hospital at Cairo; Private A. Le Bruning, in hospital at Ghezirch. Returned to duty: Sergt. C. A. Feschner, Privates A. A. Grant, W. T. Wright, J. Keely, J. H. Lester, and L. McGlashan.