ROLL OF HONOUR.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVIII, Issue 251, 20 October 1917, Page 5

ROLL OF HONOUR.

CAREERS OF THE FALLEN. LIKIT. MACKENZIE GIBSON. Mr. Mackenzie Gibson, headmaster of the Dihvorth Institute, lias received news (if tin* death of his only brother. Licuf. Mackenzie Gibson, killed in action on lith inst. LIF.tT. W. V. BROTHERS. MX". Advice ha- been received from tho Defence Department to the effect that Lieut. \V. V. Brothers has been accidentally wounilod in France and admitted to hospital. His parent* reside in Xapier. Hi* father is on the staff of the Napier ''Daily Telegraph."' Lieut. Tsr<>tilers loft Xew Zealand with the Main IJiklv v- a private in the I unterbury Regiment, having won hi* way up to his present rank on the field, lie has been awarded both the Military Cross and the Military Medal for gallantry in France. This is the third time hi: has lii-i.ii wounded, once on Gallipnli. and twice in Kram-e. l*rior to enlisting- he was nil the staff of tho Christchurch Fire Brigade. He is v nephew of Mr. and Mrs. I". Lee. and Mr and Mrs H. Wright, both of Devonport. LIEUTENANT I. S. HVDSON , . Lieutenant. J. S. Hudson, recently reported wounded during the latest *Xew Zealand advance at Ypres is an old I Kind's College and Dunedin University W. He left New Zealand with tb'e second half of the N.ZJR.B. as senior I nergcant. and after going through the ! Somine offensive as gas expert and ser- | geant-major, was chosen with others by General Russell to sit for his commihsion. wliich In- obtained after a course of study at Worcester College. Oxford. He was posted t.> the 15th North Auckland Company anil returned to France just in time to take part in the New Zealatiders - gallant advance at Messiues. When wounded lie had JUBt returned from n course of instruction in machine j»im work held at a training camp at Xuuquet, on the const of France. LIKITKNANT ROY MACICY. Amongst the Aucklanders who were killed in action on October 11 was ■vM-ond-l.ieutenant Roy AJaeky. eldest ■<)n of Mr. Thomas Maeky, or Cheltenlmm Hpacb. Devonport. Lieutenant Maeky wa.s unmarried, and 31 years of age. IViorto the war he was in busi-lii-ss a~ a land agent. Jlis brother, Lloyd Maeky. is serving at the front. Lieutenant Maeky went "into camp as a corporal, and was a sergeant in tho Third Battalion of the Hide Brigade when he left for Knince nearly two years ago. lie passed his examination as eecond-lieutcnant when in England. CORPORAL LEONARD J. CRIBBLE. Oorporal Leonard .T. Gribble, of the Fifteenth Reinforcements, killed in net ion on October 4th, was one of four brothers on active service, and was the rhir.l i-on of Mr. W. tiribblc, of Pukekohe llate of R..torua). Prior to his r-nlist-ment lle'vaa for many years in th<: employ of R. Walton. Ltd.. of Auckland. He was a keen footballer, for many years representing the W.Y.M.I. Club in the Association pmn-. Jfe was also a lleresford Street school old boy. He leaves :i wife and two children. Private Norman W. Gribblo left with the Fifteenth Reinforcements also, but was made a prisoner by the Germans on 21st February lust. Private Stanley H. Oribble left, with the Twenty-seventh Reinforcements, attached to the Medical Corps, while Rifleman Horace V. Gribble is at present in camp with the Thirtyfiret Reinforcements. GUXNT3R G. E. WOOLLEY. Mrs. Albert Johnson, who has both a husband and son on active eervice, thie morning received a cable from the Base Records Office intimating that her boy had been wounded in the right knee. The message was from Walton-ou-Thames Hospital, and added that he was wounded on the 4th of October, and transferred to -duty on the Dth. Gunner George Edward Woolley. who is a son of Mrs. Johnson by a previous marriage, left with the Fourth Reinforcements when IT years of age, and at 20 years bae now been wounded three times. Hβ has seen service in Egypt, Gallipoli, and France. PRIVATE ATHOL OILMAN. Mrs. T. R. Gillntan, of Onehunga. rereived a telegram from the Base Records Office, conveying the information that her s-on. Private Athol Gilman. who left about two years a<;o with the Ninth Reinforcements, had been killed in France. This bad news was, however. contradicted by a second telegram yesterday ia,fternoon to tl>,e effect that Private Athol Gilman had been wounded. Any uncertainty was settled by a cable received last night from Private Gilman, which informed his mother that he was wounded, in England, and doing well. PRIVATE A. VV. TAYLOR. Private A. \Y. Taylor, reported killed in action, was the eldest son of Mrs. and the late Alexander Taylor, of Princes Mreet, Onehunga. He was born and educated at Onehunga. and at the time, of his enlistment with the Twenty-fifth Reinforcements, was working on the wharf at Onehunga.