WHILE DOING THEIR DUTY

Evening Post, Volume XCIV, Issue 5, 6 July 1917, Page 7

WHILE DOING THEIR DUTY

CASUALTIES AT THE FRONT

Private James Joseph Walsh (severely wounded in the left knee) joined the literary staff of the Lyttelton' Times five years ago, and subsequently that of the Otago Daily Times, which newspaper he represented in the Parliamentary Press Gallery in Wellingtoil about three sessions) ago. At the 'close of the session he enlisted, ■ and went'to the front with the 14th Reinforcements. He spent about seven months in the trenches in France before being wounded at Mcssines on 7th June. His brother, Frank, who went to the front with the 11th Reinforcements, was killed in action in France, in September last. Bombardier W. E. O'Donnell (died of wounds) was the son of Mr. W. O'Donnell, of Mount Eden, Auckland. He enlisted at the outbreak of war, and served in the Gallipoli campaigjj, and also took/part iiY the Somme offensive. His elder/ brother, Cpl. "Jack"'O'Donnell, was killed at the landing on Gallipoli. ... Lance-Sergeant S/ P. E. Francis (died of^ wounds) was the eldest son of the late Mr. J. P. E. Francis, M.A., Auckland. He was educated at the ,Auckland Grammar School, and at the time of enlisting was teacher at Batley.. He was an enthusiastic member of the Royal L[fe Saving Society, being for some time ,an instructor, also holding the,society's bronze medallion. He leaves a wife and two children. ' Another brother, A. R. H. Francis, the well-known footballer, is at present engaged making munitions in England. Second-Lieut. Edmond L. Malone, eldest son of the late Colonel Malone, and a brother of Mr. B. Malone, of Napier, was wounded on 23rd June. Lieut. 'Malone left as a trooper with' the j Main Body, and was wounded at Gallipoli, later being granted. a commission in the Wellington Battalion, of which his father was in charge when he was killed. . ' . j Rifleman Ernest Orr, killed in action, on ■ 7th June, and Lance-Cpl. Henry William Orr, killed in action on Bth June, were two of the six soldier sons of Mr. J. W. Orr. of Kaitangiweka-, Ta'umarunui. Rifleman Orr left .New Zealand last year, and had been on service in France and Belgium since last September. Lance-Cpl. Orr left the Dominion as a member of the Rifle Brigade, and saw service in the fighting against the Senussi in- Western Egypt, and since then on- the Western front. He took part in the Somme,battle last September, when he was wounded .in the neck. He made a speedy recovery, and had been with his unit ever since. The other brothers' .on active service are : Private Norman Orr, who was awarded the 'Military Medal for services in.the Sorame battle; Rifleman A. L. Orr, reported ■ wounded on Bth Junej Private' Percy Orr, and Trooper Len. Orr, of the Australian Light Horse 1, now on active service in Palestine. ■ , " Rifleman H. Price (wounded) is.a son of Mr. Harry Price, • licensee, of 'Warner's Hotel, 'Ohristchurch, and a former officer of the Wellington Bowling Club. Rflmn. Price left New Zealaiid in February, 1916, with the 4th Battalion of the Rifle Brigade: A younger brother, Sergt. Robert E. Price, who left with ' the Main Body. from Australia, was wounded in the landing at Gallipoli. « ' . Pte. Arthur Smith, of- Wellington, news of whose death on the. battlefield in France was-received to-day, wasl, a fine stamp of tho.New Zealand soldier, and popular with all who knew him. Born and educated in Halifax, Yorkshire, where his parents still reside, he came out to the Dominion eleven years, ago, and until he, enlisted in the 9th Re-' inforcements (Engineers' division) he worked in Wellington at his trade as a. carpenter. He. was an enthusiastio cricketer, and played for Newtown. A' brother is a member of the Australian Forces and is now in France. " ■