ON SERVICE.

Press, Volume LI, Issue 15313, 29 July 1915, Page 5

ON SERVICE.

♦ PERSONAL NOTES ABOUT NEW ZEALANDERS. 1 (ntOK OCX Otm CORRESPONDENT.) LONDON, June 23. Mr J. G. Goodfellow (Auckland and Christchurcli) is now 2nd Lieutenant in No. 1 Company Edinburgh Royal Engineers. He is at present stationed at Queensferry, Firth of Forth, training for foreign service. In 1914 Mr Goodfellow resigned his position as assistant engineer to the Lyttelton Harbour Board in order to gain furthe r experience here. Last -March he passed the A.M.lnst.C.E. examination, obtaining the highest marks, as well as tho Bayliss Prizo. Then he was recommended for a commission in the Royal Engineers. -Mr A. J. Lever-Naylor, chief officer of the Komata (U.S.S. Co.), who recently came from Xew Zealand to offer his services to the Admiralty, has been made Sub-Lieutenant, R.N.R. Mr Roger B. Johnson (Mount Torlessc) has passed through the military college at Camberlcy. and is now 2nd Lieutenant. 4th Hussars. Dr. W. A. Chappie, M.P.. Major in the R.A.M.C. who had charge of the Mount Vernon hospital for wounded, ha« been sent to the Dardanelles with a hospital ship. Mr G. Geoffrey Sale (Dunedin). son of Professor Sale a Rhodesian mining engineer, has abandoned his profession fo r the time being and has come to London in order to offer his services for the war. ' The Earl of Seaficld (Otago and Canterbury) .is serving at tho front as Captain in the sth Battalion Cameron Highlanders, a regiment which he himself helped to raise. After training at Aldershot the battalion recently left for France, and already has taken its turn in tho trenches and been under fire. Miss Marparet Bilton (Christchurch) has left London to take up an appointment at Lord Derby's War Hospital at Warrington. ■ . Lieutenants Lloyd and lan Findlay are both now. in the trenches around .Ypres. and Lieutenant Wilfrid Findlay is expecting to leave for France very soon.