THE ROLL OF HONOUR.

Press, Volume LII, Issue 15751, 18 November 1916, Page 10

THE ROLL OF HONOUR.

THE FALLEN AND WOUNDED.

YESTERDAY'S LIST. _ _ ASSOCIATION" TELEGRAM.) WKLLTXGTOX. November 17. The following casualty list (No. 453' Was issued to-day:— KILLED IN ACTION. A UCKLAND 15ATTATJOX. (October 31st.) C'antley, Cecil Francis (C. Cantlcy, Pio pio. t.) Previously reported missing, now re ported killed ill aciion CSeptembei loth):— X.Z. IUFLK BRIGADE. -MeEvoy. Ov.cn (?.liss E. -MoEvov, Xe\i York, s.) Previously reported now be lieved killed (September 21st) :— CANTERBURY MOUNTED RIFLES. Cross, Edwin Olrs R. Ray. Bronte street. Nelson, s.) CANTERBURY BATTALION. JJenson, Joseph Henry (Mrs H. Haw kins, Collingwcod. m.) DIED OP WOUNDS. WELLINGTON HATTA LLON. (October Unci.) Jcrmy, George Maurice. Aotinp-Cor-poral (\\ . .J. Jenny, Turakina. f.) CAXTKRBTRY li.A TTALIOX. (September 2Sth.) Frieklcton, Win. Twaddle (Mrs E. Frickletou. Blackball West Coast, m.) OTA GO BATTALION. (October Ist.) Parker, Gordon (Mr.s T. Parker. Lakeside, Stirling. Ota go, ju.) (October 2nd.) Clarke, Hugh Macintosh (Miss M. Clarke, Alma street, "Wyndham, s.) CYCLIST CORPS. (November Bth.) Milne. Thomas P. (Mr.s B. M. Milne 6 Battersea St., Christchnrch, w.) ' Previously reported wounded, now reported died of wounds (Sept. loth): "WELLINGTON MOUNTED RIFLES. "Webb, Richard Stephen (J J. Webb Laverique Bay, Manaroa, f.) ' DIED OF DISEASE. Died'., of. pneumonia in No. 3 General Hospital, Codford (November 14th): N.Z. RIFLE BRIGADE «*£:wrglft CORRECTIONS. Previously reported missing, now reported not-missing:— CANTERBURY BATTALION. Bond, William James (Mrs Eg Heaney, Okoroire Springs, 6.) Previously reported missing, now roarted rejoined imit:— • N.Z. RIFLE BRIGADE. (October 7th.) Irney George Edward (H. C. Araev fiailwar, Inglewood, b.) y ' / MISSING. ' CANTERBURY BATTALION; (September 28th.) Fitz°^n ertie (Mr 60 omst. WOUNDED. AVoundcd. admitted to hospital WELLINGTON BATTALION. (October 30th.) &to wart, John Lance-Corpl. (Mrs A g. Stuart, High st.. Masterton w ) mounded, remaining 'with N.Z. ENGINEERS wi. ** T (° ctob er 27th.)' Willott. James (Mrs j. Etchells Rainow, Macclesfield, Eng., s.) AUCKLAND BATTALION. t> x, -2nd.) ' • Crtn'n an J (^ s E - Tester, 19 Orafton road, Auckland, s.) " OTAGO BATTALION. rr ii V (November 2nd.) TaJke, Leslie (A. S. Cooper, Upofeongara, Makinlnri, Wanganui.) * < NEW ZEALANDER KILLED. (By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright.) (Australian and N.Z. Ca.l)!o Association.) •it LONDON, November 16. Melville Kay, a New Zealand farmer, who was second-lieutenant in the Durhame, has been killed* in. action.

PERSONAL NOTES.

> Private Fred J. Humphreys,, reported missing and now reported killed in ' action on September 16th, was the fourth son of Mr J. W\ Humphreys, of • Blenheim, and was 21 years of age.-He 1 went away with the 3rd Reinforcements and, on his arrival in Egypt, was sent ; .to Gallipoli, where he took, part in. the April landing. After three months' lighting on the Peninsula he contracted enteric fever, and was invalided to Eng. land. On receiving a certificate some months later that he was free of enteric, he volunteered for service in France, and reached that country in July. After two months of what he jtermed "hellish days and nights," ho ""paid the great sacrifice in the terrible ■ battle on the Somme that began on . September loth and lasted a week. . Previously to enlisting, Private Hum- ■ phreys was in the service of the Union . Steam Ship Company as assistant ' purser. He leaves two brothers in the . fighting line—Sergeant "VY. H. Humplireys, of the 14th Reinforcements, and ; Q.M.-Sergeant Reg. Humphreys, of the , JOth N.Z.M.R.. (Main Body). Private ,'Humphreys was a grandson of the late Captain Humphreys, who saw service in the Indian Mutinv.

" .The late " Private Bernard Granger, of the 20th Reinforcements, was a£cordocj ' a" military funeral at the Lmwood Cemetery on ThursI? . P a U-bearcrs and firing oai? consisting .of comrades of, the by whom he was held in high esteem. Private Granger was the son ®f . • veteran of the Indian mutiny and

the Maori war. He was a native of Christchurch, 31 years of age, and leaves a widow and child. He was a striker at Messrs P. and D. Duncan's engineering works, but was to farmers on the Peninsula, where ho had done harvesting in successive seasons, and also known jn sporting circles. He was down on final leave from Featherston camp when he was taken ill, and though all that devoted nursing and medical skill could do was don© for him, ho passed away. The funoral proceeded from the Barbadoes street Cathedral to the cemetery, tjhe Rev. Father Hanrahan officiating at the church and grave.

Private Arthur Kirkby, who was wounded in France on September 19th, has rejoined his regiment. According to a lettep- received by a Palmer ston Nofth resident, Basil Hodder, tho son of Mr T. R. Hodder, who was killed at the front, died a heroic death. He participated in a charge in which the platoon of which he was a member was practically wiped out. When the charge commenced the fire met with was murderous in its intensity, but, this notwithstanding, young Hftdder, with the other brave (fellows, went on, and was ono of tho very few who nearly reached their objective, when he went out, killed instantaneously by a shot through the heart. . "It was good to see the way that Hodder died," tho writer added; "and it made one glad to belong to a race that could produce *sitoh heroic men who could face hellish death unflinchingly, and who, craven fear unknown, died-with -their faces to the foe."

Cabled advice has been received in Wellington that Lieutenant Eric F. J. Reeves, formerly of the Public Trust Office staff, is at the Command Depot, Codford, England, "recovering from debility." Lieutenant Reeves has had several months' service in the trenches at the French front, and has for the past few •weeks been on sick leave in England.

Early in September Mr George Watts of Hawera, was advised that hie brother. Private Isaac Watts, of the 51st Battalion of the Australian Infantry Force, had been killed in action on the 3rd of that month. Last Tuesday, however, he received a German military postcard dated from Dulmen, in Westphalia, on September 18th, in his brother's own handwriting, stating that the writer was a prisoner of war, and stationed at Dulmen. Mr "Walter Street, of Rakala, has received word that his son, Private Geoffrey Street, who was recently wounded in the thigh, and in hospital in France, lias now quite recovered, and expects soon to be in the firinglino once more. There was a Jargo congregation at St. Mary's, Manchester street, on Thursday, when a solemn requiem mass for the repose of the souls of tho soldiers killed at the front, who were late parishioners of St. Mary's, was celebrated The names of 55 fallen soldiers were read out, and Dean Regnault delivered an appropriate address. Mass was celebrated by the Dean, the Rev. Father Aubrey, of Waimate, being Deacon, and Father Hoare Sub-deacon. Rev. Father Seymour assisted in the choir, which was composed of male T.oices. Gunner F. C. Hunt, wounded, is tho second son of Mr James I. Hunt, farmer, late of the Timaru district, and now of Waipara. Gunner Hunt was well known at Geraldine, where he was a member of the Presbyterian Bible Class.

"I have got into the honours list at last," writes Sergeant Cecil Malthus, M.A., of Timarn, in a letter to liis mother, received on Thursday. Though he {rot badly smashed in the battle on the Somme, his injuries being such that he will not be permitted to return to the firing-line, he writes as cheerfully as rsual. His letters were written from a hospital at Rouen, the first ono being written .with the left hand, as his right hand was ont of commission. The following extracts are from two brief letters received by Thursday's mail:—"l have had my usual marvellous good luck, or I would not be alive at all. I am on the roll of honour at last. I was bit by a bomb exploding right under me, but the only serious wound is in the right foot, which is rather badly shattered. The doctor thinks amputation will be necessary, but lie is trying to do without it. The boys made another successful attack, and that is the main thing. It is rather annoying to miss my commission, which I would have got this week." .... '" : I am getting on very weft indeed. I had an operation last week, when part of my right foot was cut away, and it is to be amputated at the instep as soon as it is healthy and healing. I have got my ticket for England, and will have the" operation there. The other wounds are practically healed already. You see I am using my right- hand again." Sergeant Malthus left with the Main Body, and after going through the Gallipoli camEaign went to France, where he has een fighting ever since. In order to join the forces he left his position as assistant master at Nelson College.