THE FALLEN AND WOUNDED.

Press, Volume LII, Issue 15746, 13 November 1916, Page 8

THE FALLEN AND WOUNDED.

PERSONAL NOTES. # Lieuteuant A. P. Hopkins, of New Brighton, has received the following message from the Defence Department: —"London advises yesterday, 8-2791 Private G. P. Hopkins at King George's Hospital, London, wounded in head, progressing favourably."

An appeal has been issued by the Wellington Trades and Labour Council to unions throughout New Zealand for funds for a national memorial to the late Sergeant E. J. Carey. The letter, signed by the secretary to the council (Mr L. M. A. Rearden) states: "For the last ten years the late Mr Carey ■was a valued representative of the working people. ,He has given the best that was in him for the cause of Labour, and much of his good work is destined to bo of lasting benefit to labour. Those of us who have been closely identified with the late Mr Carey in his

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A special service of sorrow in memory of Lieut. Carev and Privates Chivers and Dovening, and of intercession for those of the Church wounded in tho Somme fighting, was conducted at the Oxford terrace Baptist Church by the Rev. J. J. North last evening. Mr North read a li«st of 75 names of boys from tho Churcn who had gone to tJie front, and special prayers were offered for the relatives of the dead, and for the wounded and sick. At thd conclusion of the service Chopin's "Funeral March" was played in memory of those who had falien.

The latest number of the "Waitakian," the Waitaki Boys' High School magazine, contains a list "of 420 names of old boys on active scrvice, and states that this list is by no means a complete one. Of these, 120 are commissioned, and 90 non-commissioned officens. When the magazine went to press, fifty-fivo old boys had made the supremo sacrifice, and sixty-seven had been wounded. Ten had been mentioned in despatches, five had been awarded the Military Cross, and one had received the French Admiralty's medal for bravery and devotion to duty.