DOMINION GUNNERS AND THE "BIG PUSH"

Auckland Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 243, 11 October 1916, Page 8

DOMINION GUNNERS AND THE "BIG PUSH"

"CONVERTED" NEW ZEALAND RIFLEMEN

; . -; MEMBERS OF N.Z. MOUNTED RIFLES, CONVERTED INTO A BATTERY OF ARTILLERY. The above photograph, which has been received by a young lady resident at Grey Lynn, is of interest, as showing a group of the first soldiers from our Dominion to go under training in England. They are probably now engaged on the western front. The names of the men are ac under, reading in each case from left to right:— BACK ROW—Gunners T. Preston (Auckland), F. W. Sylvia (Auckland). A. F. Macdonald (Auckland), C. D. Campion (Wanganui), C. J. Robinson (Waverley), B. McLaren (Fukahui), R. S. D. Dalrymple, T. V.Roberts (Tonga), E. J. McLeavy (Levin), A. *R. Fraser . SECOND ROW—Gunners J. P. Preston (Blenheim). R. J. Mackay (Wellington), M. Fraser (Dunedin), Tom Park (Dunedin), E. Phillips (Wellington), A. Cameron (Hawera), C. Griffiths (Tauranga), J. Thomson (Murchison), J. S. Wilson (Otago), C. B. Warburton (Auckland), H. L. Watson (London). , THIRD ROW —Gunners J. Fabian (Auckland), B. Quin (Studholme), Oscar Richardson (Tiraaru), A. E. Palmer (Otaki), Sergt. A. C. Hall (Westport), Gunnery Instructor Sergt. Reeves (Kb. 4 Artillery Training School, now instructing New Zealand drafts), Corp. Moseley (Christchurch), A. C. Barrington (Gisbornc), S. A. Dryden (Wellington); F. Oliver (Stratford), Guy Dwyer. (Auckland). FRONTHOW—Gunners J. V. Wrenn (Hamilton), E. C. Wiggins (Hastings), F. Ward (Blenheim), G. Murray (Owaka), P. Oakeden (Devonport), F. Baddeley (Wanganui), F. J. Harvey (Wellington), J. Mills (Gisborne).