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Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16308, 4 September 1918, Page 9

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♦- YESTERDAY'S LIST. (fbess association telegram.) WELLINGTON, September fl. The following casualty list (No. J4-) jras issued this afternoon. AUCKLAND DISTRICT. WOUNDED. Wounded, admitted to hospital:— N.Z. Artillery. fiizniohn. A. (Mrs rainier, Cambridge), Aug. 22nd Cantcrburv Regiment. Pntter F., C'apt. (-Miss K. D. Potter, St. -Cuthbert's College, Auckland), T arbutt, J E h B. (Miss V- Donnelly Hector street, Auckland), _oth N.Z. Rile Brigade. Kfretton, H. (Mrs -I'.- Stivttwn. Gladstone road' Auckland).' Aug. -'Ist Meagher, J. G. (Mrs M. Mcag ier, Kamngahake, m), Aug. ~- n d j CANTERBURY DISTRICT. WOUNDED. Wounded, admitted to hospital:— Canterbury Regiment. JJardon. A. G. L., k.-Cpl. (Mrs A. Mardon, Rangiorn, m.), Aug. 2-jtli Needhara, F. H. (H. Needham, Greendale, f.), Aug. 25th OTAGO DISTRICT. WOUNDED. i Wounded, admitted to hospital:— Canterbury Regiment. McCloy, H. (H. McCloy, Gimmerburn, f.), Aug. 2oth Otago Regiment. ' McGregor, P., Sgt. (D.C.M.) (D McGregor, Main street, Diincdm), Aug. 18th WELLINGTON DISTRICT. 'DIED OF SICKNESS. * N.Z. Medical Corps. W. J: (Mrs L. M. Westerby, 'Constable street, Wellington, w.), .Aug. 30th WOUNDED. '"Wounded, admitted to hospital:— N.Z. Rifle Brigade. Gough. 8. (B. Gough, Marton), Aug. 22nd Dray. T. (Mrs A. Dray, Mangatamoka, n.fc Aug. 23rd MAORI CONTINGENT. WOUNDED. Wounded, admitted to hospital:— Kin'gi, 1., Sct. (T. King), Te Karaka, Gisborne, f.) THE LATE LIEUTENANT-COLONEL r,. i HUMPHRIES. I (BjrCabfc.—Prees Association.—Copyright.) ' (Australian and N.Z. Cable Assocj«t.on.) LONDON, Septembei" - 2. : Lieutenant-Colonel Cecil Humphrios, 8 New Zealand football player, died of wounds received -while commanding a battalion of the Norfolk Regiment dur- . ing a heavy counter-attack. He enlisted in 1914, and immediately went to France as a. private. He won • the 3>.C.M. and bar to the Military Cross. 1 His orijgadier saysHe was without) ; exception tho bravest'man I ever saw.

THE FALLEN AND ~r . WOUNDED. ■

' l PERSONAL NOTES. j Mr Geo. Armstrong, Mayor of Aka- ■ • m, received word on Monday that his ■ yohngesfc son, Gunner Lincoln Arm- • strong, * was reported dangerously '.wounded—gunshot wounds in the head. Conner Armstrong left as a trooper with the 6th Reinforcements. He saw service in Egypt and on Gallipoli and in France, where, later on, ,hIT was (tfaiisferred -to the /artillery. His • elder brother, Trooper Vernon Arm- , atrong, who left New Zealand with . ; >him, died of enteric at Malta, in De--1 comber, 1915. .-Chief Motor Mechanic R. L. Alex- : ander, who has died from wounds received in, the famous Zeebrugge raid, . -. was a resident of Auckland, and was v.; prominent in yachting circles there. < Lieutenant T. M. Alexander, who also went away with the Motor Boat Patrol, • was the.owner of the crack Wellington -,'yaeht lorangi, which he bought from the late Mr A. H. Turnbull. Lieutenant Alexander returned to New Zea- . land last week. r!-t -.A cablo message has been received , ' by Mr I>. T. of Wellington, | that Commander R. L>r Hancock, R.N.. D.5.0., has been killed **, while, on active service. Commander ;• -Hancock, will be romombered as an ofii- / r fcr of a vessel which was engaged on v , Admiralty survey' work on the New / Zealand, coasts some years ago.- He marriedfa daughter of Mr I>. T. Stuart, 3 »n"d his widow and two sons are at present residing in Cornwall. Com- > mander Hancock was awarded the i D.S.O. for special service rendered off j the onomy coast during the present i war. • Mr J. A. McGrath, Inspector of Policc at Napier, has received from the J Canadian militarv authorities in Lon"don a Military Medal, won by his son, [ Private Charles TJnsworth McGrath, 'Private McGrath was in Canada at' the touthroak of the war, and enlisted in the Royal Canadian Regiment. He was y' reported missing after the Sommo bat- ' tie, and it is presumed that he is I * dead. For his services in tho Sorame battle ho was awarded the Military *, Hedal. Tho Police Force of New Zealand ' have lost a good comrade in tho death of Trooper Patrick Butler, who was tilled in action in Franco on August ►" 23rd. Ho was' • born at Medburv ' -(North Canterbury). Ho joined the Police Force on September Ist, 1909, '4 ..being then only 20 years of ace, and was stationed in Dunfcdin up to tap time ho decided, in company with Constable P. Mullens, on August 31st, 1917, to en- > list with tho New Zealand Forces. He was a widower. Threo" other constables from tho Dunedin City Police - have given thoir lives in the light for , .freedom, namely, Constables D. Caven, »■ *; G. Eckford, and Johnston, all of whom • : were killed in action on the Western Front. ' ' ' Cable advice has been received in i-: / Dunedin of the death from pneumonia , of Sergeant-major Gordon Torrance. He loft Dunedin as o private, and at tho timo of his death held the position of sergeant-major. Word received by r 'the last mail stated that he was to go from France to England to sit for a commission. He was a playing memJ ' ber of the Zingari Richmond Football '--club. ' Three of his brothers are on "4 active service. John (awarded the Medal) is still in France, and '-fjDick and Andrew are in England, reiiSovering from wounds received in -■'vrrance. , i Mrs Northam, 27 Matheson's road, iiinwood. has been advised that her

youngest son. Private J. 11. Northam, is in hospital with gunshot wounds in tho right hand, anklo, and side, received on August 24th. Private Northam left with the 12th Reinforcements, and was wounded :tt Messines last year. He was in hospital ton months, and had only been back in France four months when ho was wounded the second time. Mrs A. H. Smith, 1022 Colombo street. Christehurch, has received advice that her youngost son, Rifleman Sid "Wallos, was wounded on August 22nd. He loft with the 21st ReinI'on'cmcnis. 110 was farming in the Aylesbury district before enlisting. Private James Cosil 'Woodham, whose death is reported from Tidv.orth Military Hospital, was the seventh son nf Mrs \S. Woodham. of Heathcote Valley, late of Bordesley street, Linwood. He was for many years a cartage contractor in Christchurch, and leit with the 30tli Reinforcements. ilr W. T. Doak. of Mount Somers, has beon advised that his son, LanceCorporal D. H. Doak, was admitted to hospital irf England on August 22nd, suffering from chronic pulmonary discus 1 . Lance-Corporal Doak left with the Twelfth Reinforcements. Mrs J. Bishop, Barr Hill, has been advised that her eldest son. Rifleman S. J. Bishop, is dangerously ill through gunshot wounds in tho chest and abdomen. Rifleman Bishop enlisted and left New Zealand with the Twentyfourth Reinforcements. He is 24 years of age, and prior to enlisting was engaged in farm work in the Barr Hill and Highbank districts. A younger brother left with the same Reinforcements, and both have seen considerable fighting in France. Mr J. Henderson. Hinds, has been advised that his fifth son, Private G. Henderson, was admitted to hospital in France on August 24th, suffering from a wound in tho left hip. Mr T. Mardon, Ashley street. Rangiora, has received word that his son, Private Gordon Mardon, has been gassed and admitted to a hospital in France. Private Mardon left with tho 21st Reinforcements. Second-Lieutenant Athol Hart (killed) was a son of Mr E. Hart, of Takapuna, Auckland, formerly headmaster for manv vears of the Berosford street School* Prior to enlisting in tho 31st Reinforcements, New Zealand Rifle Brigade, deceased was a member of the legal stafr of Messrs Parr and Bio®" field, barristers and solicitors, Auckland. Ho was admitted as a solicitor in tho Supreme Court of New Zealsnid, at Auckland, on March 14th, 1916. For a time prior to entering the legal profession he was engaged in the dentistry profession The annual report of the United Bowling. Tennis, and Croquet Club, v<hich was presented last night, states: "Since our last report the following members are either in training or rrone to the front, making a total ot £*>j Messrs S. W. Field, S. Paterson, and B. C. H. Whitcombe. It is with sincere regret- we havo to report tho loss sustained by the death of Messrs G. IX Seay and W. I/yons."