ON SERVICE

Evening Post, Volume XCIV, Issue 134, 4 December 1917, Page 8

ON SERVICE

NEW ZEALANDERS ABROAD

(PROM ODE OWM COBKSPONDBMr.)

LONDON, 2nd October.

A Requiem Mass was celebrated at the, Church of the Immaculate Conception, Farm-street, on Friday, for Brig.-Gen. F. E. Johnston, 6.8., son of the Hon. C. J. Johnson, Speaker of the Legislative Council. Amongst; those present were: Brig.-Gen. G. S. Richardson, C.M.G., commanding the N.Z.E.F. in the United .Kingdom, and other New 'Zealand officers, Lady Jane Gathorne Hardy, Sir Westby k B. Percival, and Sir Thomas Mackenzie.

Sgt. Ray L. Price (Auckland), who has seen service with the Red Cross in Salonica and Rumania, has now gone to Italy. . ■ ; .

It is now officially announced that Flt.Lt. Ken L. Millward, R.N. (Wanganui), who was reported missing some time ago, has been killed. ....

Mr. D. C. M'Diarmid has attested as a member of the N.Z.E.F., and has been drafted to the Medical Corps. Spr. A. C. Lindsay, N.Z.E., a,member of the British Section, has been discharged here, medically unfit. Cadet P. D. Hall, R.N. (son of Mr. J. D. Hall, Christchnrch) has completed his course at Osbome.and has been transferred to Dartmouth.

Mr. R. A. Meyer (Christchurch), who came to England for the Motor Patrol service, is on duty at the Dover station. Lt. E. G. Sellar, R'.F.A. (Hawera), whj», since his return from France more than a year ago, has been instructing in, gunnery in the R.F.A. Cadet School at Exeter, is now going overseas on the Headquarters Staff of Divisional Artillery.

Cpl. S. Nunnerley, 13th Field Bakery, 8.E.F., was Hying at. North Shore when he was last in New Zealand. He came to.England after the declaration,of war to, join up here.

Capt. G. H. Ferguson, Otago Rgt., who left with the Main Body and has been on service continuously since has been seconded for duty; in New Zealand, and expects to return by an early steamer. :

Mr. Walter Cyril Beaumont, who has just joined in England the N.Z. Field Artillery, is the well-known Auckland sculler. For the last few years he has been engaged in business between Canada and Great Britain.

2nd'Lt. Hubert W. H. Willes, Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry (son of Mr. W. A. Willes, late of Christchurch), has been wounded.. He was in Canada previously and belonged to Strathcona's Horse. A year ago he was gazetted to his present commission.

The following ex-members of the N.Z.E.F., having completed their Cadet training courses, have been commissioned to the R.F.A. Special 1 Reserve:' ■L. r Cpl; Walter F. Kent-Johnston, Spr. Leo G. Mahon, Sgt. John! Martin, N.Z.F.A., Q.M.S. William EV Wilson, N.Z.E. . .-■. . •. .. ■. , . ■■ • ■•'■

Cpl. Clarence A. Umbers, of the N.Z.A.S.C., has received a first commission in the R.F.C., and is posted to the General, List. •■ ,'

Sgt. Gordon B. Ctryatall, Canterbury Mounted Rifles, who was nominated last November for an Imperial commission, and has completed his course at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, has received his commission in the R.F.A.

. . Ptes. H. L. Bayly, A. E. Che*l, I- Carr, and R. J, Thompson., who "were nominally on the roll of tie N.Z.Ej?:, have been struck off on obtaining, their commissions in.the R.F.C., for which they partially qualified at Kohimarama. :

Lt. James Oliphant, of the Kings Own Scottish Borderers, belongs to Auckland, ■and left New Zealand with the Auckland Regiment in the Main Body. He got his commission on Gallipoli, and has served since "with the famous 29th Division, with only one short break of two months, on account of sickness. '. Lt. Oliphant got the M.C. for the operations at Widjendrift on 16th August, and.received his medal from the King at Buckingham Palace this week. ■•

Q.M.S. Ernest G. S. Fisher, 20th Australian Infantry, belongs to Auckland, and has served" two years with the Australians. . .

_C;M.M. Robert Maclean, oj the Motor Bo?* Patrol Section, is at present attached for instruction.