SOLDIERS BACK FROM THE WAR
ONE DEATH DURING- THE VOYAGE. By Telegraph-Press Association. Auckland, September lb'. Three hundred aud sovmty-one sick ind wounded (soldiers, comprising 15 office:*, 35'J other ranks, and six nurses, arrived to-day. On leaving England thero were 107 cot cases, and these aro now reduced t - ) 25. Sergeant Roy J. Leslie, of Auckland, a Main Body man, died at a port of call, and was accorded a military funeral ashore. Throo men among the number have each lost a, log in tho Battlo of tho Somme. The* greater number wero in action at Jlessines. Wearers of decorations are lieutenant Joseph B. Mawson, of Winton, Sergeants Walter J. Murray, Opotiki, Charles M'Keegan, Ashburton. Corporals John Jl'Quillan, Dunedin, William A. Oldham, Auckland.
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3192, 17 September 1917, Page 4
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