PERSONAL NOTES.

Press, Volume LI, Issue 15338, 23 July 1915, Page 10

PERSONAL NOTES.

i MAJOR R. A. ROW. I Mrs Row. of Christehurch, has received a cable message from Major R. A. Row., comma tiding A Company, Ist Canterbury Regiment (Infantry), to say that he is in Cotton.era Hospital suffering from sunstroke,, but is convalescent. CAPTAIN H. PALMER. I News been received of the death, of Captain Harry Palmer (Wellington ! Battalion), at the Dardanelles on July 15th. The cause of death was pneumonia, contracted by serving his gun in the trenches iv the extremely bad weather. Mrs Palmer, of Feilding, received the news on Tuesday eveulng, just after she had read a letter from her husband in which he related that he had been -wounded in the hand and bead by splinters, of shrapnel. Hβ made light of his wounds,. however, and his letter was very cheerful in tone. But he mentioned that he had. been serving his gun in the trenches.for 48 to 52 hours in drizzling rain, and this, no doubt, led to his death. Captain Palmer was one of the most popular men in Palmereton North, andww e not only active in hie business' as'auctioneer, but was identified with public'and military life, and also took part in many social I affairs. A -widow and three eons are left to mourn their loss. LIEUTENANT cToARRINGTON. A cablegram has been received by Dean Carrington from his eon, Lieutenant Christopher Carrington, stating that ho has been ill in iho Blue Sisters' Hospital at Malta, ! but was now quite well. Lieut. Cari rington, who is the second son of i Dean Carrington, is 21 years of I ag». Borj in England, he was educated at Christ's College, and subsej quently went. to Duntroon Military ! College, being one. of the first to go there. He loft for the front with the. New Zealand Field Artillery. , LIEUTENANT J. M. ROBERTS. Lieutenant J. M. Roberts, with the Waikato squadron of the Auckland Regiment of Mounted Rifles, was wounded whila acting as captain of the squadron. He is the elder son of Colonel J. M. Roberts, N.Z.C., of Auckland, and was manager of the'To Puke branch of the Bank of New Zealand before he enlisted. TROOPER O. S. JONES. Trooper Owen Sinclair Jones, of Hamilton, served with the 4th (Waikato) Squadron in the Machine-gun Section. Ho is reported to have died of wounds on the 30th June. Ho wag 21 years of ago, and the son of the lato Mr A. Jones, of Hainjlton. his father having died since the son enlisted. Trooper Jones was a farmer, and hsd been trained iv tho 4th (Waikato) Regiment of Territorials. Another brother is also fighting at the Dardanelles. SAPPER J. B. HORNE. Mr C. L. Home, of the Otago Harbour Board office (an old resident of Christchurch).. has received a telegram to the effect that his eldest eon, Sapper Jack Bret Home, New Zealand Field Engineers, who left New Zealnnd with the main body of tho Expeditionary Force, and was recently -wounded at the Dardanelles, and afterwards reporttnl fit for service in the firing lino, died jn tho Netley Hospital on the 10th inst., from enteric fercr. Mr Home has another son serving at tbo Dardanelles. t ! Private nrlrioo h.n s be* , n received from I Private Mii-had Nottingham from Zeis' toun Hospital, dated June 9th, that he ! was -wounded about May 24th, and had ' thru-boon in hospital for about a fortjiijilit, but expected to bo back in tho firing line in about a fortnight's time. Private Nottingham also mentioned that his brother Maurice, in the Queensland Light Horse, had half his foot blown off. A letter rewired yesterday from Private J. F.'Moir, stated that he was in th 0 Victoria College Hospital. Alexandria, with a poisoned leg. but expected to bo leaving any day for the convalescent hospital in camp. Corporal M. P. Jones (Canterbury Infantry Battalion), who was wounded some weeks ago, has written to his relatives in Chrustchurcb stating that his left arm from the shoulder to the elbow ■was paralysed, the bullet not then having been extracted, and that he was being sent from Malta to England. The two brothers. Privates Hubert and Gordon Lodge, of the Ist Canterbury Regiment and the 4th Reinforcements respectively, wrote to their parents in Chriatchurch by last mail. The first says he is in the General Hospital at Alexandria, and that his wound in the leg is getting on very well, though it will be some months yet be* fore ho can get to the front. Private Gordon Lods> is in the firing lino at Gallipoli. He states that Private "Scotty" Storey, who was wounded, is

in a Cairo hospital, and is getting better. Mr Hugh. Itelaney, of Buekland, Auckland, han received a cablegram stating that his son, Private Norman Delaney (Auckland Battalion) ie severely wounded in the left leg and right thigh, but is progressing favourably. He is in the Egyptian Army Hospital, Cairo. Lance-Corporal N. L. Taylor, son of Mr C. Taylor, the -well-known builder, writing to his people from "Somewhere in Turkey," says he was wounded in the toe. Farther particulars ho does not eend. and his people hare not been ablo to ascertain what hospital he is in. Word has been received in Reefton by friends of Private W. Reid, of the 2nd Reinforcements, that he was wounded after fourteen days' fighting, being shot in the leg during a bayonet charge. Private Reid is in St. George's Hospital, at Malta, -where at the trme of writing he was doing well, and hopod soon to be again in action.