NATIONAL RESERVE

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2523, 26 July 1915, Page 7

NATIONAL RESERVE

B Company (Wellington East), Ist Regiment, is reported to be in a very flourishing state. The parades are well attondod, and promising recruits arc being steadily enrolled. Ninety members mustered at tho parade on Thursday night last, at tho Clydo Quay schoolground, when company movements were gone through satisfactorily. A class for ai.c.o.'s is held on Mondays. The use of tho Wellington Working Men's Club's miniature rang© has_ been seoured for Tuesday nights. 'A signalling class meets on Thursday eveuings before parade. A squad of members unable to attend on Thursdays meets between 5.30 and 6.30 p.m. on .Wednesdays. Two of tho company's sergeants have enrolled for scrvicc at the front.

Mr. Justice Rich, of Sydney, lias received several letters of sympathy from the officers of the regiment to which his son, Lieutenant J. S. Rich, who is-a cousin, of Mrs. W. H. Field, of Wellington, was attached' at tho timo of his death. Lieutenant Bicli lost his life wlion leading his men in an attack on a very strong German position on May 17. Captain A. Derviche Jones, of the Ist King's Regiment, in tho course of a letter, says, under date May 20: "On Sunday morning, tho 16th, soon after daybreak, I bad to send, him across a dangerous piece of ground with somo reinforcements, and he went most gnllantly, losing very few men. Tho lioxt day he was one of the small party left of two companies wliicli succecded in bombing tho enemy but of a long pieco of trench, and taking over 200 prisoners. Later in tho afternoon a big attack across open country was ordered, and our little lot—A and B companies— of which only GO men were left, were detailed to advance and protect the right flank., He took tho first line of our company forward into the open, and advanced with them a. considerable way. I'was not far off, aud could hear him continually encouraging the men to advance uuder a murderous enfilading firs of the enemy's machine-guns. In order better to direct his line, I saw him standing up, and I had to -order him to lie down. When wo were eventually ordered to retire to tho right he was the last of his lino to get to a shallow trench about 2ft. 6in. deep, where somo protection could bo obtained. I followed behind, but lost sight of him, and I learned half an hour later that ho and two men with him had been killed by machine-gun fire on. their way. back to safety. At dusk we found his tody with a bullet right through tho brain. An eye-witness informs 1110 that his death was instantaneous. It was a great shock to mo; we had always worked well together, aiid I valued his help." Sufferers from Bronchitis or Asthma will get marked relief from "NAZOL." Take on sugar or throuph a Nazol Inhaler. Sold everywhere. GO doses, Is. 6d. ■r-Advt.. Large numbers of high-class sheep will be sold 011 account of well-known breeders -at Messrs. W. and G. Tnriibull and Co.'s Waipoua Yards, Masterton, 011 Wednesday. The various stock auctioneers insert in this issue full lists of stock to be sold at this week's sales.