ON SERVICE

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 146, 22 June 1915, Page 8

ON SERVICE

CONCERNING NEW ZEALANDERS (PROM OUR OWN CORRBSPONDBNT.) LONDON, 12th May. . The first list of New Zealand casualties at the Dardanelles appeared in the papers this week, and a day or two later the first full list of wounded was posted by the record officer (Mr. T. E. Donne) in the corridor at the High Commissioner's Office, where it was inspected by a continuous stream of enquirers and relatives. The casualties from the front in Franco are now coming in at a much faster rate than during the winter months, and as often as not there is at least one New Zealander in the list. Dr. P. P Stewart, who came to the Old Country a year ago and got his F.R.C.S. at Edinburgh, has joined the Royal Army Medical Corps, and was under orders to proceed to Dunkirk when the newß came of the shelling of that town by the German naval guns mounted in the German lines. The hospital having been severely damaged, Lieut. Stewart was posted to a large new military hospital- at Bankend, near Edinburgh, an institution of 1300 beds. Dr. Stuart's brother, Mr. H. D. Stewart, of Ateamuri, has come to England to get a commission in the army. Both are originally from Milton, Otago. Mr. A. M. Finlayson, M.Sc., formerly of Otago University, has returned to England from Burma, where he has been for the past four and a-half years with the Burma Oil Company. When war broke oufc Mr. Finlayson entered the Rangoon Volunteers, with whom he did some months' training, and" he is now applying for a commission here. He was an Exhibition Scholar at the South Kensington Science College. Mr. Peter Clarke, the well-known New Zealand geologist, has come across from Canada to offer his services. Mr. Clarke was associated with Dr. Macintosh Bell in mining matters in Canada, and he did his recruit training with the M'Gill University O.T.C. He has two brothers already serving. At present he is in Ireland on a visit. Miss Werry, who left Wellington some years ago for England, is working with the British Red Cross in France. Lieut. L. Bruce Stringer (Christchurch), who was with tho West Kent Yeomanry at Maidstone, in January, has resigned his commission in the R.A.M.C. and has entered the Navy with the rank of temporary surgeon, with seniority 3rd May. Mr. R. A. Wilson (Wellington), who recently arrived in London, has joined the London Scottish. Mr. Ralph Black (Auckland) has just reached London from California with the intention of joining King Edward's Horse. He saw service in South Africa with the ' 2nd Queensland Contingent, and a brother of his is a member of the 6th Hauraki Regiment, now at the Dardanelles. Capt. R. F. Nation, 3rd Royai Fusiliers, son of Mr. George Nation, late of New Zealand, is reported among the wounded under date 25th April. Mr. Keith H. Izard has a commission as 2nd lieutenant in the 3rd Royal Sussex. He was among the New Zealanders here who joined Capt. Lampen at Salisbury Plain last year. Captain J. H. M. Arden, D.5.0., Reserve of Officers, is gazetted temporary major, Worcester Regiment. Mr. Harold Salmon (Gisborne) applied for a commission in the New Army. He has been appointed 2nd lieutenant to tno 16th Battalion Durham Light Infantry. Before joining his regiment he will attend an instruction class at Oxford. Mr. Salmon has been staying with his parents at Brighton. Trooper R. G. Warren, from 9th Wellington East Coast Mounted Rifles, N.Z., is gazetted 2nd lieutenant A.S.C., attached to Highland Divisional Train. Dr. L. W. Rolleston. R.A.M.C., is to h&ve the rank of major while sewing with a war hospital. He is now at'iached to the hospital at Napsb'ury. Dr. A. B. Danby (Wellington) is gazetted temporary surgeon in the Navy, with seniority 4th May. 2nd Lieut. 0. R. F. Johnston (Wellington), 6th Middlesex Regiment, has been promoted lieutenant.