PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3143, 28 July 1917, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS

Advice has been leceived ..by private cablegram that, Lieutenant P. E. Greenish. N.Z.R.8.. has obtained' his captaincy. Captain Greenish was recently awarded the Military Cross, and prior to the war was a. partner ill the firm of lieere and Greenish, architects. Captain (temp.) 3rd (Auckland) Reginiont, lias been appointed Acting Brigade Major (temp.) to the Auckland Infantry Brigade, and ■ Lieutenant G. 11. Woolley, another officer of the same regiment, the Assistant Sfusketry Instructor in the' N.Z.E.F. training camps.

Mr. W. Dutliic, of the firm of John Duthio and Co.. and Air. Godfrey Magnus, of tho firm of Magnus, Sanderson and Co., have returned from* abroad.

News has been received that Lieutenant W. B. t'itclielt, Ist Auckland Infantry Battalion, son of Dr. Fitchett, Public Trustee, lias been transferred to Battalion Headquarters and given the post of Sniping Intelligence Officer, in charge of 30 snipers anil scouts, the picked men of the battalion. Lieutenant Fitchett left New Zealand with the Auckland Mounted Rifles (Main Body), and won his 'stripes on Gallipoli. He was invalided home in December, 1915, and returned'to .Egypt in February of the following year. In April he volunteered to go to France, where, six weeks later-, he was promoted to be second lieutenant. He commanded a platoon through; the engagements at Arinentieres, the Somme (where he was slightly wounded), and Messinos. In the performance of his new duties recently he was gassed. " Private advice was' received in Wellington yesterday that Lieutenant George M'Lean Wilt'ord. son of Ml 1 . T. M. G ilford M.P., has been promoted to a captaincy. Captain Wilt'ord left New Zealand with the Maiii Body of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force. Advice lias been received in Wellington that Sergeant Fergus Galvfii (fourth son of Mr. and Mrs. Patrick Galvin, of llataitai) died of wouinds in France on July 16. The deceased, who was 25 years of age, was educated at the Terrace School and Wellington College, and then joined the staff of the Union Bank of Australia in Wellington ill .1309, anil was in the service of that corporation when he went to Samoa as a member of the* Expeditionary Force in August, 1914. Before that lie' had been in the D Battery.of artillerv. Returning from Samoa, lie entered the" Trentham Camp, and left vitli tlie artillery section o£ the sth Reinforcements. He took part in fighting at Gallipoli, and afterwards went, to 1-urope. Tie was popular with all who knew him. Some months ago liis brother Gerald, wlio was also on the Western front, was reported missing, and nothing farther has been heard" about him.- Another brother Bert, is now on his way to the front. The late Sergeant Galvin vas a member of the Star Boating Club. /

Sir Dyce Duckworth, Bart., consulting physician to St. Bartholomew's Hospital and senior physician to the beanien's Hospital at-Greenwich.-has join--ed the Board of Directors of the British and Foreign Sailors' Society.

Mr. W. J. S. Hayward, of Wellington, who has been on a business s '!j America, lias returned to ?\;ew Zealand. On his travels lie_ visited Victoria, Vancouver, Chicago, New Tort. Buffalo, ana the Falls, Montreal, Toronto, and in the West Lost Anegles„ San Francisco, and Seattle. The death is announced at .Jf" ra,l Saof Mr. William '.Tolm. Blvth'..Jhe late Mr. Blyth was horn at. A\anganui w. 1859 After leaving school he lOined tne staff of the Bank of New Zealand, and for many years was on tlie head_ staff, Wellington. On March 9 last he retired oil account of 111-heaUli, and took up his residence at Tauranga. Mr. Bljtli leaves a. widow and two sons. Two new appointments to the staff ot the "Wellington College were made by the College Governors yesterday, to ml the vacancies caused by the resignations of Mr T. Brodie (who shortly goes into camp) and Mr. F. IR.<>|>"tson (who resigned on account of ill-health) Mi. 1 . .Toplin, 8.A., was appointed to one lotion, and Mr. C. Taylor, 8.A., to tlie other. ____