ROLL OF HONOUR

Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 295, 10 September 1941, Page 8

ROLL OF HONOUR

Sixteen Men Reported To Have Died FOUR OTHERS MISSING The deaths of 16 members of the 2nd N.Z.E.F.* are reported in a casualty list issued last night, and four more men are listed as prisoners of war. The list is as follows: — Tlie Following: I’rlnoner of War Died of Wounds — Previously Reported Missing. HEATH, Mervyn H„ Gnr. Mrs. !<’. Heath, 30 Khodes St., .Merivale, Christchurch (m) Died —Previously Reported Missing. BELLRINGER, Trevor C„ Bdr. Mr. F. T. Bellringer, Box 92, New Plymouth BOWN, Robert J., Pte. Mr. J. Bown, Pelorus Bridge, Marlborough (f) DEAN,' Roy A., Gnr. Mrs. L. A. Dean, 3S Christchurch Rd., Worthington, Sussex, England (m) ELLIOT, Harold J., L/Cpl. Mr. H. A. Elliot. 62 Lonsdale Cres., Wellington (t) GILLESPIE, John, L/Cpl. Mr. J. Gillespie, Carolelis, County Antrim, Ireland HAMILTON, Percy C., Spr. Mrs. M. C. C. Stevens, Kensington ltd., South Dunedin (in) 1 HANSEN, Clarence W., Pte. Mr. A. M. Hansen, Clarence St., Hamilton (t) HIGGINS, Leonard R., Pte. Mr. C. M. Higgins, Hamilton (b) JOHNSON, Noel F.. T/bgt. Mrs. M. J. I. Johnson, 41 Shortlaud bt. f Auckland (in) LEITCH, Kenneth E., Pte. Mr. G. Leitch, Hunua, Rural Delivery (f) . OGILVY, James, Pte. Mrs. J. Ogilvy, 31 Nile Rd., Takapuna (m) LYONS-PHILP, Thomas B„ Pte. Mrs. A. Lvons-Philp, Torbay (in) PpL’TU, John, Pte. Mrs. L. Kemp, Ruatoria (ill) , SADLER, Mervyn D„ Spr. Mr W . E D. Sadler, 24 Symonds St., Auckland _ (t) WHITE. Ivan It., Spr. Mrs. It. While, 20 Cleveland Rd., Parnell (f) Prisoners of War — Previously Reported Missing;. JACKSON, Leo- G., L/Cpl. Mrs. E. M. F. Jackson, C/o Mrs. Pegg, Mam Western School, Haywards (w) T . ~, MULHOLLAND, Edgar D„ L/Cpl. Mr. F. B. Mulholland, 189 Bligh’s ltd., 1aRIDER, Dudley IL, Sgt. Mr. A. 11. Rider, Turakina (f) „ _ ~ WOOD, Raymond E., Pte. Mr. E. K. M’ood, Wainul-o-mata, Lower Hutt ll) AIR CASUALTIES Air Headquarters, Wellington, announced the following casualties yesterday SCOTT, Christopher I<\, Sgt., previously reported missing in December, later reported prisoner of war and wounded, now safe in England. Mr. J. Scott, Lox 53, Raukapuka, Geraldine (f) t HUNT, John F., Pilot Officer, R.N.Z.A.1?., previously reported seriously injured in aircraft accident, now reported killed in aircraft accident. Mrs. J. F. Hunt, oo Marine Parade, Herne Bay, Auckland (W) . z

MISSING CORPORAL

Wife Receives Mail From Hospital In Greece Two letters from her husband, Corporal A. McKenzie, bearing the inscription of a German prisoner of war camp in Greece, were received yesterday by Mrs. McKenzie, 'B5 Riverside Drive, Lower Hutt. On May 28 he was officially reported missing mid subsequently wounded anil missing. Mrs. McKenzie had received no further advice of her husband till the arrival of his letters, which were dated May 6 and May 14, and written from "26th General Hospital, R.A.M.C., British Army, near Athens, Greece.” Corporal McKenzie reported that he had received a slight wound in the right thigh and was well on the way to recovery. At the time of writing he was in a Greek ’ hospital but expected to be moved later. He said he was doing quite well, but added: "I am awful-y hungry. I’d like some of mum s cakes right now. Oh for a feed.” Nothing had 'been excised from the letters. i , ... Corporal McKenzie left with the third eclielon of the N.Z.E.F. in the 25th (Wellington) Rifle Battalion.