PERSONAL NOTES FROM HOME.

Press, Volume LV, Issue 16520, 12 May 1919, Page 5

PERSONAL NOTES FROM HOME.

(tkoh on own correspondent.)

LONDON, March 27

Eng.-Lieutenant D. F. Bauchop, R.N.. expects to leave for New Zealand in May. In the early days of the war he was doing duty with the Ministry of Munitions, then was appointed to the Navigation School at Portsmouth, after a special courso of training in mines, and at tho beginning of WIS ho was transferred to the D.f.M. Department of the Admiralty, later becoming assistant to the manager of mining depots. Captain H. J. T. Marshall, R.N., formerly senior otlicor on the New Zealand .Station, is at present commanding the R.N. College at Keyham. The cadets there, seventy-three of whom have just passed out, are joining the cruiser Carnarvou, and will be at sea for the next eighteen months. Mr Fred E. Moore (Wellington) has been demobilised, and proposes entering into business in Bradford. Mr Moore, who was at one time connccteu with tho "New Zealand Times," was in England when tho war broke out, and joined up as a trooper in the 2nd King Edward's Horse, with whom he has been through the war. Lieutenant B. A. "Woods, formerly sergeant in the Auckland Mounted Riflos, has returned to England from Imperial service with the Armoured Car Brigade with the Dunster force in Persia and Baku. <• Lieutenant Woods was a member of tho Main Body, and since leaving the N.Z.E.F., at the enu of 191G, has been with the Armoured Cars at the following fronts: —Persia, Galiria, Roumania, Mesopotamia, and Russia.

Sorgoant W. B. Bridger, A.S.C. (Dunedin). is in the 53rd General Hospital, in France, suffering, from influenza. Ho has served throughout the war.

Mr 11. Massey (Tnvercargill) and Mrs Massey aro hoping to got a return passage to New Zealand at an oarly date. Their youngest son, George, who had a commission in tho Royal Artillery, was killed in and the death is now presumed as having occurred in action on May 27th last, near Berry-au-Bac of the elder son, Captain John H. Massey, M.C. Ho had graduated in Science at Cambridge, and got his commission in the artillery when war was declared. Mr and Mrs Massey wil] probably return via Panama. Captain F. D. Farrow (Christchurch), of the Cavalry Corps Headquarters, 8.E.F., is being demobilised to-day. He will remain in England for some time.

Mr James 3>avidson (Wellington) joined up with tho N.Z.M.C. at the beginning of the war, and served in Egypt and Gallipoli. He was a casualty at Gallipoli, and aftorwards went with his unit to France*. There, again, he was invalided to Walton-on-Thames, and on going back to New Zealand was discharged. After two months of civilian life he worked his passage to England in a Shaw, Savill, and Albion liner, and ro-enlist-ed in the R.A.M.C., with which he has sine© been serving. Ho is now at the Trent Bridge Hospital, Nottingham. Captain Stuart J. Reid, formerly of the Scottish Horso, but now in the R.A F., has reached England after serving almost continuously for three years in the East. Joining the Scottish Horse at the beginning of the war, he got his comibission as a lieutenant from a cavalry school at Aldershot, in 1915, and proceeded with his regiment to Gallipoli, where he served until the evacuation. Going then to Egypt he was transferred to the R.A.F., and has since beon flying almost continuously in Sinai, Palestine, and the Hcdjaz. He was one of a party of twelve flying officers who were sent in the early days of the war to form a contact with the King of the Hcdjaz, and he had many very interesting experiences there. The historic surroundings of Arabia and the Red Sea gave him plenty of scope for pursuing his artistic work, which was interrupted by the war, and Captain Reid is likely to publish, at an early date, an illustrated volume on the campaign in Arabia. He will return to the East in the middle of April to obtain further material. Captain Reid was married some time ago to a Belgian lady. Captain C. W. R. Royds, R.N., who was with one of Captain Scott's Expeditions to the South Polo, has been appointed to H.M.S. Arrogant.

Captain M. E. W. FitzGerald. 0.8. E., Royal Engineers (eldest son of the late Mr W. C. FitzGerald. of "Wellington). is expecting shortly to be demobilised. and then he will go out to New Zealand to practise as a civil engineer. Captain FitzGerald enlisted in the Royal Engineers in 1914, and shortly after received his commission. He is now Staff Officer to the Chief Engineer. oth Corps. At tho age of seventeen, he enlisted in New Zealand for the South African war, serving with the 7th Contingent. . In 1904 he came to England with _ his father, and took up civil eneineerine. His sister —Sister Eileen FitzGerald—served with tho N.Z. Stationary Hosnital in France. His' brother, Jan, joined up in Enpland, and was wounded last year: his brother Gerald served with the N.Z. Division, while Roy was killed la«t year, after transferring from tVio Gloucester Rojriment to the R.A-F. Previously the last-named had b«en wounded and capture:!, but he managed to octane from Germany, and returned J to England. I