TROOPERS FROM EGYPT

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2368, 26 January 1915, Page 6

TROOPERS FROM EGYPT

NAMES OF WELLINGTON MEN,

Of the fifty-four members of the Main New Zealand Expeditionary Force who returned to Auckland by the Athenic oh Friday were thirteen men who had been invalided home, thirtytwo men who refused to allow themselves to be inoculated with anti-typhoid serum, and nine men who were to be discharged from the Force for misconduct. No officer was sent back in charge of the.men.

Following are the names of the Wellington men and others belonging to national units invalided home:—Troopers C. P. Bowler (Wellington Mounted Rifles), 0. L. Knight (Wellington Mounted Rifles), D. Pearson (Now Zealand Field Artillery), P. A. Minsnall (New Zealand Field Artillery), and W. J. Barman (New Zealand Field Artillery), Privates F. L. Parkes (Divisional Train), W. L. Reid (Wellington Infantry Battalion), and S. Abbott (Wellington Infantry Battalion), and Driver E. EL Shore (New Zealand Field Artillery). The names of tho Wellington men and others belonging to national units who refused inoculation aro: —Privates W. Howat, J. Brcnnan. F. Holford, 0 Holland, L. J. Wallace, D. Chidley, A F. Ward, B. Smith, 0. D. Cruickshank, A. K. Carter, and F. E. Gill (Wellington Infantry Battalion), Drivers H. Mayer, A. R. Cole, R. M. Thomson, and N. V. Muller, and Gunner W. Finney (New Zealand Field Artillery), Driver A. R. Wykes '(Army Service Corps), Driver F. Oldham (Divisional Train), and Private L. Scoullar (Divisional Headquarters).

The men invalided home are to be allowed to proceed to their homes, and at a later date will be medically examined. Those who have recovered sufficiently _ will then bo sent to Trentham to join a reinforcement draft,' and those who' are deemed to be permanently unfit for military work will be discharged. Those men who were bronchi back for misconduct and for refusing to be inoculated are to be paid off at Auckland.