ON SERVICE.

Press, Volume LII, Issue 15605, 1 June 1916, Page 10

ON SERVICE.

NOTES ABOUT NEW

ZEALANDEBS.

(r&on OCR own correspondent.) LONDON, April 25. Mr "William Guthrie Salmond (son-of the New Zealand Solicitor-General), who enlisted with tho 21st. Lancers, and got his first stripe in February, 1915, is gazetted to a commission in the North Somerset Yoomanry. Flight-Sergeant Frank Nuttall (Christchurch), who has been attached to No. 6 Squadron Royal Flying Corps, is uow temporary 2nd lieutenant, and is posted for duty with the military wing of the R.F.C. Mr H. G. Kemp (Christchurch and Nelson) camc to England hoping to become a despatch rider. He has been posted to this duty in tho Royal Engineers, and is at present in training, with Birmingham as his headquarters. Ten New Zealand nurses camc from Egypt to England by the hospital ship Devanha, ana aro now stationed at Queen Mary's Hospital, at Whalley, Lancashire. They arc: —Sisters H. Carruthers, E. J. Child, J. Lodge, DM. Anderson, E. M. Curtis, E. H. Person, A. A. Evans, V. K. Petersen, M. Galloway, and T. M. d'Emden. •Second Lieutenant Noel Ross (general list) relinquishes his commission on accotint of ill health (dated April 21st). Lieutenant H. B. D. "Wilcox, who was adjutant of his battalion of tho Sherwood Foresters, and holds the temporary rank of captain, is seconded from his regiment for staff duty. He has greatly distinguished himself in the war, and has been decorated. Mr C. A. Jordan, son of the UnderSecretary for Justice in New Zealand, has gone to the front with a draft of tho King's Royal Rifles, in which he enlisted in August last. Mr Brett Wood (Christchurch) and Mr Charles Allan (Dunedin) are two young New Zealnnders who arc eager to eet into tho R.F.C. Mr Albert F. Sollars (Christchurch), who arrived by the Rotorua quite recently, has joined the Royal Naval Air Service.

Captain Leopold McLaghlen. who was training: recruits in New Zealand and Australia during part of 1915, and who arrived in London at the end of that venr, has obtained a commission in the 25th Royal Fusiliers. He expects to leave shortlv for East Africa. Captain MoLnjrhlen, w ' lo served in the Smith African war, is the son of tlio "Rinrht Rev. Bishop MeLaehlen. titular Bishop of Claremont, South Africa. I havo had a letter this week from Colonel A. E. Stewart, of the Rifle Bripa.de. showinp that our men are now comfortably settled down in their new; of operations, Northern France. war has not this part of France," he says, "and -work goes on as usual, but is in tbe hands of women, girls, boys, and old men, moro honour to them. There are no soundbodied men left: all are in the trenches. T can quite understand the French soldier's love of his country. It certainly is one of the fairest countries under the sun. The southern part is a garden of herbs, fruits and flowers. The blossom everywhere was a picture."

Mr Lynton E. Walcot Wood (Christchurch) arrived by the Tainui, and is trying for a commission in the Roval Flying Corps. Major H. T. Fulton, D.5.0., 2nd Gurkha Rifles, has been appointed brigade commander with the temporary rank of brigadier-general. Major Fulton, who is the son of Major-Gen-eral Fulton, of Ota-go, was in New Zealand when the. war broke out/ but soon afterwards rejoined his regiment. Messrs E. P. V. Sealy (Timaru). H. W. H. Sams (Balmoral Station. Canterbury), and H, B. Cogan (Christchurch) arc expecting to leave for France to work in connexion with the Service do Santo Militaire. Two weeks' admissions to Mount Felix have included the following New ZealandersThomas Alban Bradley, 4-484; Donald Campbell. 8-1715; Richard Craig. :j-661; Charles James Edward Clemens, 6-208; John Faulkner, 8-824; James Henry Fuller, 15-206; Charles Robert Havdcn. 10-2638; Bert Samuel Herbert Hares. 10-885: Thomas Hall, 0-2648; James Williams Hamilton, 4-103 a; Charles William Homer, 1166; Samuel Joseph Johnson, 13-921; Arthur Clifton James, 2-645; Graham Gily Jving, 2-1134; John Noel Leahy, 4-1569; Richard Henry May. 4-965; John Brown Miller, 8-2518; Ralph David Matthews, 10-1912; Herbert McIveown, 13-929;" Arthur Pike. 10-495; William James Poppleton, 2-384; John Porter. 4-1461; Harry Forbes Prain, 8-702; Gerald Mervyn Purchas, 12-427; John Addison Saipe, 8-2120; Edwin William Shepherd. 13-453; Albert Edward Smith. 10-1660; George Stokes, 4-55 a; Jury Sullivan, 16-569; James Moir Taylor,_ 6-1415; Frederick Charles Trenuc, 14-747; Ivawhena Tuoro. 16-365; Ernest Hcnrv Austin Watts. ] 1-1511 ; Percy Todd Wade, 3-291 ; Benjamin WaL ler. 5-227; Warwick Cecil Wroth, 7417; Charles Horsley, 14-111; James Daniel Kins;, 17-105; Alan Crawford Lindsay, 4-218 a ;-Arthur Aislabie, 1211; John Wilcoek Bell, 11-856; Reginald Burnett, 10-2086; Charles Com,iort. 6-889; Ernest, Flans. 6-1028; Richard Garlick, 13-342; William Lovell •Gregg, 9-928; Rov Gibbs, 7-200; William Mackenzie Griffen, 13-689; Wiliam Frederick Liddieoat, 10-1883; Teorgc Stanley Dastin Moran, 10-2245; Archibald William Montgomeric. 7532; Hector McAlinden. 8-1546; Alexander John McLean. 8-1875; Arthur Prentice. 10-161; William Henry Smith, 11-530; Cecil Sylvester, 10-2327 ; George Douglas Taylor, 12-1515; David Martin Wilson, 8-718.