ON SERVICE

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 134, 6 June 1917, Page 2

ON SERVICE

NEW ZEALAND CASUALTIES

IN IMPERIAL FORCES.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

LONDON, 20th April,

On 9th April, the only son of ■ Mr. and Mrs. E. Wilton Schiff was killed in action. He was'2nd Lieut. Alfred Sydney. Borlase .Schiff, of the Rifle Brigade,' and his. age was- 19 years.

-2nd Lieut. W. G. 'Saxby, 8.F.A., Tokomaru Bay, is v reported wounded; also 2nd Lieut, 'E. V. .G, Day, of th« Rifle Brigade. Lieut. Saxby came to England in July last, and trained for his commission at St. John's Wood. Mr. Day, ;who is a son of Mr. .V. G. Day, SjM.,.was. formerly .Adjutant-at Ashburton. He only got his commission in the Rifle Brigade a month or tyro ago. Lieut. L. W. Tosswill (Christchurch],, Royal Warwickshire .Regiment, has also been wounded. He left New Zealand with the ,'N.Z.E.F.. and. got his commission after' 'being wounded in .Gallipoli. 2nd Lieut. F. J. Munro (Auckland), Royal Garrison Artillery, is reported ■wounded. -Mr. Munro, who is an -Englishman, . was for some time on. ithe 1 staff of the. New Zealand Herald. Coming ...home a.bout the time war broke out, he enlisted as a' gunner in the Garrison Artillery, and got his . commission,'.for .gallantry in "the'field. „ . 2nd Lieut. ,1; ,D. Hamilton, R.F.C., is one of many ■■ officers in that branch, of the service who have been reported: missing during, the -last few weeks'l activity. Lieut: Hamilton,'' who belongs to Nelson, 1 ;servsd with our Mounxeds m Gsilipoli., where :he was wounded, ai)dhe;got his commission in the'R:F.C. last June.

The death is announced of G. Webber, ' 25425, ' Machine Gun Corps, described as of Auckland. ' He ,■was previously reported wounded,. now. ■reported died of wounds. .Mr ■G. .ICCWebber (Auckland), an artist, came to .'England in 1913, and on the outbreak of war he. enlisted in the Royal Fusiliers, crossing: ■to France in" 1915.. ■ ■ ' ■

Several .references have, been made in :tlie 'London papers to the . death of-. Trooper A. 11. Fitzherbert, IN.Z.E.F. -One says : "The Fitzherberts have always been a fighting family The father of. Trooper Fitzherbert was ..Lieut.-. •Colonel''R. H., Fitzherbert, of 'the Rifle Brigade. ' He was living iii retirement '.when. ;the .'Crimean War broke out, ■ and :with a barrister;"brother ■ promptly joined the/Italian Legion for service. Trooper Fitzherbert was a trooper by choice, and for a time his- 35-year-old son, Geoffrey, who-en-listed 'with 'him, vwas his sergeant. The son, so badly wounded that he is unfit for further-service, :is on-his way-back to New Zealand.

To-3ay the dea.th is announced— killed in action—of 2nd Lieut. R6bert Arthur '. (Roddy)' Fergussori, Royal, Fusiliers, younger <son.of Mr. and Mrs.FergnssoE, of Timaru, N.Z. The young officer was 19 years of age. : '; The Oxford Times refers to the death, in. a military hospital at Wellington,-.of Sergeant 'George -Bertue Parker, N.Z.A.S.C. He was the son of.the late ■Mr. George Parker, -Clerk of Schools, and of Mrs. Parker, 56.,'Oakthorpe-road, Oxford. It is mentioned '.that at .school Sergeant Parker won the Senior Champion Athletic Cup, and while, a member, of -the University he represented Oxford in the broad jump at the Old Lillie Bridge grounds. He went through the South'.African War.