ROLL OF HONOUR.

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 8, 4 October 1919, Page 1

ROLL OF HONOUR.

■.-'-■•.-.•,■ •' IN 3IEJIORIAM.' GAIN.—In .loving memory of' Private T. ' W.. Gain, (Tom), killed iu action in >. France,': October 3, 1917. : So loved and sadly missed. •' —Inserted .by Ms ; loving 'father, mother, brothers, and sisters. ■ HOOPER.—In. cherished memory of Alex. ■ J. Hooper, a dearly loved son and only '.'• child,'-who'died of wounds in Prance, '. i September, .1916. ... ' ■■.'' "For honour, and the cause that lacked assistance, and tho homes there were '. to save."..'.'.' SOUNESS—In proud and loving memory : of ray dear brothers, Neil, Main Body, ; killed in action in France, October,4, 1917; and Cecil, Fifteenth Reinforcements, accidentally killed at St. Omar, '•' ,' July 4,. 1917.;r Time may heal'the broken-hearted,; : ■. Time may make tho'wonnd less sore, But time.can never stop the longing '• ' ''For : tho dear ones gone before. —Inserted by their loving sister,' Dorothea- Palmerston North. ■■ .... STRATTON.—In loving-memory,of-Lce.-Cor'poral W.:J. Stratton, eldest son of , <.G.-' J. and 'C. S.' Stratton, Weraroa, killed'.in'action, .October. 4, .1917..' > : *' v',"His duty nobly' done."' \ ~ •'" —Inserted by his loving parents, sisters, and''brother.; . ,\ '■';■..-;..■ TERRY.—In sad and loving' memory of Percy. Edward Terry, beloved second \ son of Mr." and Mrs., A. E. Terry, of Nireaha,-killed in'action, at .Ypres.ionOctober 4, 1917, aged 21 years and 12 days.. .'• His duty' nobly done. (Inserted by his loving father, mother, ' brothers, arid sister.) ■ ' WEBB.—In cherished'and: devoted re- '.-. meinbranco of'nry darling and only eon,'. Sergeant Thomas Charles Webb, killed in action at Passchendaele Ridge ' •on ; Octobor 4. 1917; 23rd.Reinforcement. Remembrance ' of my lost, love; Two years to-day, but ever in memory : -■' ' keep/'.,'- ".; './'.'..... : ' Of you my'darling son.- / . I little thought when I said good-bye We parled for ever, and you were to die.'- ■ The grief that I felt—words cannot tellThat we. could not bewith you tp -bid ' . you farewell. .-..:'"'■ ' .' ■ But the saddest blow is yet to come, ' ' When the.warriors all return;. ; And his mother looks for her darling son, Who never will return. ,' ■■'.-.'■ . .; J Tis.sad buOrue—we wonder why— ~ 'The,good are always first to die. ■ I pictured my darling boy.returning, And,thought.to'clasp his-hand; But God has postponed the-meeting Till ;we meet in;the Hotter Land.. . .Street to remember'those who once' were .near,'"' ■;.'■.■''■'■ ■And-who. though absent, are just as ■'■■ ■ : dear; J- • Frtfm. memory's leaves'will neyer blot Three-little word?:; "Forget' him not." ..- . A mother's heart, is aching ! : • For the,son she loved so well; /Beloved jjv -life,' regretted, gone, '•"■ ..... Remembered in the grave. . ... But Ms,name.'.is written'in.lefcrers of love _..' , ■■', -. ■- .'.', ; ■■■ , ' ■'..-•'. ■ ■ - ( r that he'left'at home.'' ; (Inserted .by' his loving,'"'devoted,..-and'. lonely mother, Emmoliue.Webb.) •