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NEW ZEALAND SOLDIERS

SOME OF THE KILLED OR WOUND liD Private Arthur B. Sizer. Canterbury Battalion, wounded, is very well known in Wellington, inofo particularly in shipping circles, having been one of the Union Company's most popular officers. He is the only son of Mrs. M T. Sizer, 170. Coromandel-strcet, Wellington South, and left Wellington with the 3rd Reinforcements. Letters received from him recently stated that he did not proceed to the Dardanelles from Egypt with tho main body. Educated at the Terrace School. Private Sizer was afterwards in the employ of J. Lysaght. Ltd., iron merchants. He subsequently went to sea. and was* chief officer with Captain Holm, of the ship Helen Denny Later on he joined the Union Company's service, and, with the exception of a period spent on vessels .sailing out of London, ho continued with that company until joining thr> forces, at which time ho was "second officer of the Maori. Mr. James Edwin Bradley, of the engineering staff of Messrs. J J. Xiven and Co.. of this city, has received advice that his eldest son James was killed in action on Onllipoli Pcninsuln. Mr P Hosldns. of this, city, has been advised by cable that his i-on.' Mr. T. O.

Hoskins, died on the 6th inst., from wounds received in action at the Dardanelles. Mr. Hoskins was a native of Wellington. Educated at the Marist Brothers' School. After completing his education he entered the services of Messrs. Archibald Clark and Co. About two years ago he left Wellington for the Australian States, and upon the outbreak of war, he, with his brother, Mr. Oil P. Hoskins. joined the Australian Expeditionary Force. Mr. P. D. Hoskins of the GIP.O. is a brother of the deceased. Mr. Fred Moore, of Wanganui, has just received a, .cable stating that his son, who was wounded at the Dardanelles, is progressing satisfactorily. Among the wounded at the Dardanelles is Lieut. Bruce H. Morison, son of Mr. C B. Morison, K.C., of Wellington. Lieut. Morison is the grandson of Col. Haultain, formerly captain of the 89th (Dorsets), who was Minister of Defence in the Stafford Ministry during the Maori war, and had command of the Waikato Regiment at Orakau. Lieut. Morison was educated at the Wanganui Collegiate School, where he was captain in the cadets for two years During the jast year of his stay at school he was head prefect and captair of the Rugby team. He was nominated by the Wanganui School for the Rhodes Scholarship. Afterwards at Balliol, Oxford, ho held a considerable athletic record in running, boxing, and swimming. He successfully repre. sented Oxford University in the quartermile swimming championships against the teams of the leading Irish and English clubs, and was first string for Oxford in the annual race against Cambridge, getting his "half blue."

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Evening Post, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 144, 19 June 1915, Page 5

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NEW ZEALAND SOLDIERS Evening Post, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 144, 19 June 1915, Page 5

NEW ZEALAND SOLDIERS Evening Post, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 144, 19 June 1915, Page 5