ROLL OF HONOUR

Auckland Star, Volume XLVIII, Issue 142, 15 June 1917, Page 7

ROLL OF HONOUR

1.1 KIT. K. C. SMITH. Lieut. Edwin Crngo Smith, of North cote, who was killed in action in Franco was the youngest son of Mr. J. C. Smith of Northcote '(formerly of Mount Kdenl

and only brother of Captain W. C. Smith (in command of the Xorthcoto Nutional Reserve Unit). Lieut. Smith, who was :io years of age. and a builder by trade, went into camp at Trentham with the Tenth Reinforcements as a lionconnnissioned officer for the Elevenths, but was kept engaged as an instructor at Trentham and Featherston Camps, passing his examination for a commission in the interim, and ultimately departed witb the .Seventeenth Reinforcements on 21st December last, being in the oth Haurnki Company, No. 1 Auckland Battalion. Prior to enlisting he had twelve years' military training, having been a member of the New Zealand Natives, No. 1 Company. SERGEANT W. E. PIN'NOTT. Sergeant W. Edward Sinnott, of Auckland, reported in to-day's cable ns having been killed ill act ion in France on the Ist inst., left in the Otago Infantry Company with the Ninth Reinforcements. He was well and populniiy known in shipping circles, having been on the stalls of the Devonport Kerry Company and Northern Steamship Company. He leaves a widow and family in Auckland.

THE FOUR BROTHERS KEMP. Private Fred Kemp (eldest son of Mr. Richnrd Kemp, of Paparata), who has just been posted as a prisoner of war in Germany, left in the New /"oaInnel Rifle Brigade, and was wounded on February 20th last. Ho was then reported missing. The third eon. Corporal Allan Mortimer Kemp, went to Samoa with the advance party upon the outbreak of the war, subsequently leaving with the Fifth Reinforcements; ho was wounded in Gallipoii, and again (fatally) in France on February 11, being captureil subsequently by the Germans, nnd succumbing to his wounds. The other two brothers—Ralph (who wns through the Sotnme compaignl and Charles (in Egypt)—both left in the Ninth Reinforcements. Mrs. Kemp died about seven months ago, while all her sons were on active service. Mrs. K. L. Flay, a sister of the four brothers Kemp, resides nt Northcote. Mr. Flay being a member of the Xorthcoto Borough Council.

PRIVATE CHARLES PAINE. Advice has been received 'by relatives that Private Charles Paine. of Rotoranga, has Jieen wounded, and is in hospital in England, doing well.

GUNNER (.'. ('. HAY. Private advice has been received by cn.ble that Gunner Gordon C. Hay, son of Mr F. M. Hay, Grafton Road, has been slightly gassed, and is now in hospital at Etaples, France. Gunner Hay was a mciirbcr of the Sa-nroan Expedition, and afterwards joined the 18th Reinforcements. Hi: is an electrical engineer by occupation, and was for some time in the employ of the Auckland Electric Tramway Co.

PRIVATE DAWSON CRAWFORD. The High Commissioner for New Zealand has caibli'd to Mr. .1. J. Crawford, of Grey Lynn, that bis son, Dawson, who left New Zealand with tho Kith Reinforcements, and was reported wounded and missing some time since, has written from Lemburg, where 'he is a prisoner, to say that ho is only slightly wounded, and is otherwise well. The young soldier was last seen being borne away on a stretcher, and. as he was not found to be in any British hospital, little 'hope was entertained even by his comrades that he was still alive.