N.Z. CASUALTIES.

Press, Volume LII, Issue 15501, 31 January 1916, Page 7

N.Z. CASUALTIES.

AJT OFFICIAL RETURN. (PBES.X ASSOCIATION" TELEGRAM.) WELLINGTON, January 20. • 'An official return gives the. following Jttiils up to and including January ; OFFICERS. Killed ... ... ... 87 . Died of wounds ... ... 24 Died of disease ... ... 9 : Drowned ... ... 10 Missing ... ... 21 ■■■*': .Wounded ... ... 215 ■ _ Total ... ... 346 - OTHER RANKS. Killed ... 1075 . Wed of wounds ... 530 •-■' Died of disease ... 277 ' Dead from a cause unknown 10 Drowned ... ... 22 Missinc 614 , > rrisaner* ... ... oo , Mounded ... 5274 T<jta l ... ... 7824 , * Grand total ...8170 AN AUSTRALIAN LIST. j! ©T Ctble. Press Aaioei*tion.—Copjright.) [; (Received January 30th, 5.5 p.m.), * fn u i- SYDNEY, Januarv 29. . f ? 0 u Contafns the f following New Zeas (' n hospital at fe w:-r, rsea S fc : Ma J or W - H. O'Hara Til il at .? a , lro) '» S er gcant A. Har- \} w > Sergeant U Corners! i, 1 ", 110s I >,tal at Cairo); k (in hospital at h, DttTer -r va *£ Lancaster, 4 iIK- P,- . gaz ?P ll J- ln hosnital at : Sal ° G : Wordsworth (in 1 Alexandria); Private T 88ctei,' 01 ?' sJ:: dinger). * cst her (pronounced out of t0 duty-Private T. W.

: W V. LEWIS, v recoiv 'ed by Mr ' that hie credent, Wellingtin Lcwis !ff ti? eS -+u°v er Seant Wat- : 'ifortoments hnVfc W Zcaland R «- h thSrt' of Vn 600 rc P° rt «d dead The V 1 Alexa "dria. toh av<s st ?ted for some timo : a mistakes' in taen&v a PParentJy A^u M, £? m Ts 10t i.^n nt in camo »t Trentham. The &- '

lato Sergeant Lewis was a married man, ajrerl fortv-ninc years, and resided in A\ angnnui. SERGEANT i>. M. OK FA. Sergeant, Sydney Melville Okey, believed to lie dead, was a son of Mr H. J H. Okey, M.P. for Taranaki. Deceased, who was twenty-five years of age, went, with the Main Body, and on the fateful Bth of August, at Suvla, was in charge of No. 9 platoon of the Wellington Regiment. Ho and his rcen, >o far as the evidence goes to show, gob to the first trcnch—the one wher" Colonel Malone fell. About midday ho remarked to a comrade, "Hullo, Somerville, still alive? There arc only seventeen of us left." That was the last, time lie was soon alive, and Sergeant Okev was probably killed shortly afterwards. SERGEANT P. A. HILLARY. Sorgcant Percival A. Hillary, of the .Second Reinforcements, loth North Auckland Infantry Battalion, is returning to Auckland by the steamer Rotorua. which is due this week. Sergeant Hillary was bnrn at Dargaville, Northern Wairoa. For twelve years ho was employed on the staff of the ''Bell'' newspaper in that district, and afterwards joined the "New Zealand Herald" at Auckland. After gaining some further experience he bought the "North Auckland Times. 1 ' He sold out as soon as possible upon outbreak of war. and reached Egypt in time to leave with the Main Body for Gallipoli. Ho was present at the landing on April 25th. and through the severe engagements in the earlier part of the campaign there. After three months on the Peninsula only ICj out of the 227 men of his company were left. Sergeant Hillary was then injured by a bomb, and was sent to Malta, where it was found that injuries to his ears and eyes were so serious as to necessitate his removal to England. While in England he qualified for a commission, but the medical authorities would not allow him to return t-o the front, and ordered him to Now Zealand.