ON SERVICE

Evening Post, Volume XCIV, Issue 68, 18 September 1917, Page 7

ON SERVICE

NEW ZEALANDERS ABROAD

APPOINTMENTS & PROMOTIONS

(FROM OUR OWN CORtIESFONDENT.)

LONDON, 24th July.

Lieut. Alan E. Cain, K.N.8., is in charge of a. small armed yacht. Lieut. Cain was formerly chief officer of the Maori, and- his second then was Lieut. 0. Flood, K.N.R.i who is at present at Port Said.

.Flight Sub-Lieut. B. Dicksou, R.N., (Thames), lias been over on leave, but [ is now on -duty again at' the front. * While Lieut. S. M. Wren, M.C., R.E., was over on leave he received his decoration from the King at Buckingham Palace. . * ■ . Temp. Surgeon L. B. Stringer, who served for a short time with the. West Kent Yeomanry and afterwards entered the Navy, lias been posted to another ship. Sub-Lieut. F. L. G. Jaunay, who was transferred from the Rifle Brigade to the R.N.R., is now acting-lieutenant. The Prize- Court has just disposed of the claims for prize bounty in connection with the action in Heligoland Bight, at the end of August, 1914,- when the German cruisers Koln, Mainz, and Ariadne, and the destroyer V.187 were sunk. Bounty amounting to £6415 (being at. the rat* of £5 per head of the persons on the destroyed ships) was granted. H.M.S. New Zealand, as one of the five battle-cruisers engaged, Will share in this. Mr. J. J.; Virgo, national field secretary of the V.M.C.A., was welcomed back by the Lord Mayor after his year's tour of the Empire. Mr. J. W. W. B. Hughes, the -new commissioner for New Zealand, and Mr. H. N. Holmes, now representing South Africa, spoke. , It was stated that during the war the National Council ' has administered about £#,000,000 in the interests of all soldiers and' sailors in all the theatres of war. 2nd Lieut. L. W. Tosswill, Royal Warwickshire Regt., rejoined his regiment in May after having spent a month in hospital, with two shrapnel wounds sustained in the fighting fifty mile's above Bagdad. Dr. K. S. Macky has attested here, and is now a captain in the N.Z.M.G. Mr. R. Seymour has attested, and has been drafted to Infantry, with the No. 37214. , ' ■■'•■■■ -

Discharged medically unfit: Pte. W. G. Hoskin, W.1.R., 28025; Rflmn. A. Poster, 3rd R. 8., 25/1591; Pte. J. Hopper, 2nd A.1.R., 12/1991; Pte. G. B. Wise, N.Z.M.G., .3/2956. Some of the numerous New Zealanders serving ill the A.I.F. '.—Lieut, E. P; Titchener (Medium Trench Mortar Battery), 2nd Lieut. K. A. Elder, Lieut. -M. D. Healy, P. G. Hullten, Sergt. A. H. Avery, A. C. Goodwin, R. N. Blennerhassett, Gun. E. J. Howell (formerly of Dunedin), Sap. Frank Neish (Field Co., Engineers, Wellington), E. Morris (Field Co., Engineers, Wellington), E. L. Lloyd. W. H. O'Hara (C.S.M.), C. A. 'Bollard, T. Langley, Wilfrid Norton ,(Woodend, N. Canterbury), H. G. Foster (Christchurch), H. W. Wardrop (A.A.M. 0., at tached A.A.S.C., Dunedin), B. Leroy (Gunner, A.T.M.8.), R. D, Bakewell, C. Hampton Thorp (L.-Cpl., Auckland), W. j. Watkins (Gunner, Wanganui), H. Dow, A. W. M'Cbrkindale (A.A.S.C.), James Fogarty (Gunner), Bomb. W. Frank England, H. Brooke (Lbngburn, Palmerston N.), Bomb. T. E. Kirk (formerly of Parnell), Stokoe (DeVonport), E. E. A. Menzies . (North Shore, Auckland).-. Pte. Me'nrios was wounded last May, and has now quite recovered, and is back in France. Colonel W. H. Parkcs, C.M.G.,_ proposed the toast of thfe evening at a dinner at tile Lyceum Club in honour of the Women's' Medical Service. He remarked that, although wbmeh had proved their staying power and usefulness in the war in all parts of the Empire, they had not shown it more conspicuously than in the Medical Service, and he hoped xthat medical women who had-accomplished work of the highest standard would bo amongst the first recipients Of honours for women. Miss Conyersj matron - in - chief. AA.N.S., and Miss M. Thurston, ma-tron-in-chief, N.Z.E.F.i who are both .New Zealandersi acknowledged the A committee consisting of Lieuts. S. J. R. Closey, C. C. Marsack, A. Hannah, and Isaacs, Mr. Malcolm Ross, and Mr. J. L. Hay (Y.M.C'.A:), has been set up to produce a publication on.the lines of "Oh, Canada," the whole of the letterpress' and illustrations being contributed by men of the N.Z.E.F _ Spr. W. J. Whits,.4/2215, 35. Z.L., has a commission in the Indian Army. He belonged'to No. 1 .Wireless Troop. After twelve months' work at Woolwich Mr. L. Holden (Te Aroha) is gbiiiff"to France to take up voluntary work with the New Zealand V.M.0.A.. Prior to coming to England, Mr. Holden spent seven months in Egypt with the N.Z.E X . , Percy Gfainger, the well-known pianist, has joined the American Coast Artillery, an<J is stationed ill one of the New York forts. According to. a New York paper, lite "shock of tawny hair has disappeared, and he is doing duty afe an oboist ill the Fort Hamilton Lieut. L. J. Gulliver-Cradwick,. Essex Regiment, a flying officer in the R.F.C., has been appointed assistant gunnery instructor. He belongs to .Christchurch. Lieut*-. William 1 Sowerby, R.A.M.C. (Dunedin), lias been promoted captain ou the completion of a year's service. Mr. Donald H. Lea, who served with the N.Z.E.R earlier in the war, hns ■published through Elkin Mathews, at 2s 6d, a small volume of verse entitled "Stand Down." There is a foreword by Sir Thomas Mackenzie. 2nd Lieut. G. F. R> Hall,. Royal Engineers (Lower Hutt) has been killed in action. He brily got his commission this year. He came to England in February, 1915, to join King Edward's Horse, but he was posted to ..the West Kent Yeomanry, with which he went to the Dardanelles in September of that year. Early in 1916 he.was invalided to England with enteric,'and was. in hospital in Birmingham. " After furlough he went into camp a.t Newark for training with the Royal Engineers. Lieut. --.Hall was formerly engineer to the. Waimarino County Council, also lieutenant in the Senior Cadets.

Capt.W. W. Fitzlit-vbert, Royal Sussex Regiment, attached to the R.F.C., is misaingi Flight Sub-Lieut. J. A. Macdonald Allan, R.N., has been womided. On Bth May, Charles Grcnville Lance, Canadian infantry, was reported wounded and missing. He is now believed to> have been killed. Twenty years of age, Mr. Lance was a son of Mr. F. Lance, of New Zealand, late of Vancouver. Pte. Arthur S. Hipkin, of the Royal West Surrey Regiment (Lee; Stream, Ot'ago), has been killed in action. 2nd Lieut. R. Cl'ducher, R.F.C., has been appointed Flying Officer. Lieut. Orbucher was formerly Sergeant-Major) N.Z. Wireless Troop, and \Vas invalided from Mesopotamia, to Egypt.