PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 18, 16 October 1918, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

Sir James Allen is expected to return from the north to-day.

The many friends of Major Geoffrey de Bohun Devereux will regret to hear that he was killed in action on October 1. Major Devereux left New Zealand with the Second Reinforcements, Auckland Infantry Regiment, and was in Egypt, landed in Gallipoli, and saw service in France, where ho won the Military Cross. He came out to New Zealand on furlough not many months ago, and then returned to England. Major Devereux was the third son of the Hon. H. de B. Devereux, who also lost a son, Rodney, in the Boer War.

Second Lieutenant A. Hendle-Smith, who died of wounds in France on Oc-, tober 1, was a son of Mr. Edward Hen-dle-Smith, of-London, formerly of tho New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Company, Wellington, and a nephew of Mr. E. H. Hobday, assistant engineer of the Wellington City electrical power station. The deceased was born in Dmiedin 26 years ago, and went Home with his parents when he was a boy. Returning to New Zealand some years later, he took up a position- on Mr. Cameron's sheep station at Flat Point, and then went back to London, arriving there just when war broke cut. He at once joined King Edward's Horse, and'rose to the rank of- sergeant. Gaining a commission, he joined uu with the Argyleand Sutherland Highlanders, and was eventually transferred to the' Wellington Infantry Regiment at his own request. In June last he was married in London to a daughter of Dr. Beard, of Masterton.

News has just been received of the death in action during the recent heavy fighting in France of Lieutenant-Col-onel C. E. A. Jourdain, D.5.0,, of the Loyal North Lancashire Regiment. Colonel Jourdain was the senior officer of his regiment, and had fought; with the 2nd Battalion in East Africa from ■the commencement of the war until early i" 1917, when, ho was transferred to France. He won his D.S.O. during the Boer War and served throughout that campaign. A cousin, Captain Ernest Nevill Jourdain. of' the ' Suffolk Regiment, who also served in .South Africa, was killed in France in 1915, as was another cousin, Captain Wilfred Novill, of the East Surrey Regiment, who achieved fame by leading his men whilst kicking a football towards the German trenches at Mbntauban. Colonol Jourdain's brother,* LieutenantColonel H. F. N. Jourdain, C.'M.G.J of the Connaught Rangers, another Boer War veteran, is also fighting in Franco, am'• previously .commanded (his battalion at Gal'lipoli (where it was brigaded with the New Zealanders for some time), and afterwards in Serbia and around- Salonika. A cousin of the deceased officer is Mr. W. R. Jourdnin, of the Lands and Survey Department, Wellington, whose In-other Harold fouMit in the Boer War with the Scottish Horso, and subsequently 'died■ m South Africa. ' v ; Mr. C. H. F. Macpherson, of the inspectorial staff of the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Ltd., who has been located in Wellington for the past three years, has been promoted to the managership of the company's Hawera branch. . Mr, Tom Pollard, who is to produce "The Gondoliers" for the Wellington Operatic Society, arrived from the south yesterday, and conducted the first acting rehearsal last evening.

Mr..A. Trevor, who was to have been one of the assessors for the employers at the Bricklayers' dispute yesterday: was not well enough to be present, and his. place was taken by Mr. W. H. Bennett.

' The- acting-chairman of tho Wellington Cricket Association ..referred at

last night's meeting to the loss which the phairman of tho association, Mr. C. 6. "Wilson, had sustained in the death .of his second son—died of

wounds received in action in France — and a motion of sympathy was passed in silence, all the members of the committee standing.

Lieutenant-Colonel A. R, Young, who had been appointed Director of tho Live Stock Division in succession to Dr. G. J. Reakes, who has become DirectorGeneral of 1 the Agricultural Department, graduated a member of theßoyal College of Veterinary Surgeons in 1886 and then for eight years was inspector to the Kincardineshire County Council, and afterwards five years in tho Public Health Department of the City of Edinburgh as veterinary inspector. Lieutenant-Colonel Young has seen active eervice in South Africa, Egypt, and France. ' Captain 0. P. Tanner, R.A., who is reported as having died of pneumonia on October 10 at Bagdad, was an old Wellington College boy. He served his military course at Woolwich, England, and on getting his commission in the Royal Artillery, was one of eleven who were specially complimented by General French for the brilliance of their work. He was sent to India at the commencement of the war, and saw service on the north-west frontier against tho border tribes, and then- went, to Mesopotamia, 'where be was present at the storming of Sanai-yal, when the Turk r , ish line was broken. He was in the advance to Bagdad, and beyond, as far as Tekrit, where several thousand Turks were captured, and he and his battery were complimented on their good work. Latterly ho was Commandant at Fort Fao, at the junction of the Euphrates and the Tigris. Hβ was a fine athlete ' and a crack rifle shot. His age was 26 years.