ROLL OF HONOUR.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIX, Issue 127, 29 May 1918, Page 4

ROLL OF HONOUR.

LIEUTENANT A. S. FRASER. Private advice has been received that Lieutenant Allan S. Fraser hae been wounded. Lieutenant Fraeer left New Zealand with the advance body for Samoa as a private, and later went to Egypt and Gallipoli -with the sth Reinforcements. After the evacuation of GalltpoH he went to France, where he received his stripes, and liae lately gained his commission. Before leaving New Zealand Lieutenant Fraeer was serving his apprenticeship to engineering with George Fraser and Sons, Ltd.

SERGEANT E. O'MEARA. Mr. W. O'Meara; of 320, lit. Eden Road, has received advice that his eon, Sergeant E. O'Meara, has again been, wounded. Sergeant O'Meara left with the Fourteenth Reinforcements, and wae wounded for the first time last June, and again on August 1. On the third occasion he was wounded in the foot. Be left as a private, and was promoted sergeant last February. Latest advice states that he has been removed to a hospital in England. TTi« elder brother, Private W. J. O'Meara, ie also on active service in France.

PRIVATE C. FEATHEROTON. Private C. Featherston, who is reported missing, and ie believed to ibe a prisoner of war, is the husband of Mrs E. M. Featbereton, of 11, North Street, Newton, who is his next of kin. Private Feather&ton left with tie 32nd Reinforcemente, and is attached to D Company.

PRIVATE NORMAN NORGROVE. Advice has been received by bis father, Mr. C. Norgrovc, Richmond Avenue, Grey Lynn, that Private Norman Nor- [ grove, who was reported wounded about five weeks ago, was injured in the chest and has had to have a leg amputated. Private Xorgrove went away with the Twenty-first Reinforcemente.

PRIVATE H. S. BEALE. Private advice has been received by Mrs. H. Beale, of 19, Edinburgh Street, Newton, that her son, Private Henry K. Beale, who was reported wounded and suffering from ehell-shock last September, ie 6till in Codford Hospital. Private Beale left with the 14th Reinforcements. He was educated at the Lower Hutt School, Wellington-

PRIVATE JOHN H. GRIFFITHS. Private advice has been received by Mrs. S. Griffiths, of 19, Edinburgh Street, Newton, that her son, Private John H. Griffiths, 22nd Reinforcements, ie now in Dover Hospital, suffering from illness contracted while in the trenches in France. Private Griffiths was educated at the Newton East School, and was employed by -Messrs. Cunningham and Co., Auckland, before enlisting. Another son, Private Wm. G. X Griffiths, 2nd Reinforcemeiite, was first wounded at Gallipoli, in addition to losing his sight, which he later recovered. He wae again wounded in France on the 13th October, when he lost a leg, and is at present in i at Wolverbampton. Private i Wm. 6fiffitfcs'was s einplbyed as a carter by Messrs. J. J. Craig, Ltd., and wae a member of the No. 3 Native Rifles.

DRIVER JAMES SMITH. Driver James Smith, killed in action in France on the 18th inst., was attached to the Divisional Train N-Z-A.S.C. He volunteered on his twentieth birthday, and left the Dominion with the 22nd Reinforcements. His brother Phillip, serving with an Irish Regiment, wae wounded at the same time. Prior to ent listing, Driver Smith lived with his sisters, Mrs. T. Cannon and Miss K. Smith, now of 3, Shoal Bay Road, Devonport, and was employed fey the National Cash Register Co., Auckland.

MILITARY MEDAL WUffJOSR. The Military lledal has been awarded to Trooper P. J. McClatchie for gallantry in the field of action. Trooper McClatchie, who left with the Main Body in the Canterbury Mountede, has been twice wounded. Speaking of the manner in which the Military Medal was gained, a New Zealand sergeant says: "The Turks came up at the run, firing from the hip—about five or six thousand of them. Our fellows numbered only a hundred or two. However, Mac stayed behind to help a couple of chaps who had lost their heads completely. One he put on his horse and sent safely away (to be shot five minutes later "through the head), and the other clung to hie stirrup. They had not gone far when Mac missed the fellow. Looking back he saw him on the ground, fairly done. He went back and picked him up and put him on his own horse, and ran alongside him. Of course in the meantime the Turks were at their heels in hundreds. ... I reckon he earned the V.C. if anyone earned one In the war." Trooper McClatchie was a eon of Mr. Thomas McClatchie, of Kingsland, Auckland.