NEW ZEALANDERS OVERSEAS

Evening Post, Volume XCV, Issue 137, 10 June 1918, Page 8

NEW ZEALANDERS OVERSEAS

DETAILS OP KILLED AND

WOUNDED

(PROK ODB OWN COEKESPONDESI.)

LONDON, 12th ApriL

Lientena-nt John Willoughby Hadfield Marshall, York and Lancashire Regiment, who wa6 reported to have been killed on 21fit March, was the eldest son of Mr. J. W. Marshall,'of Tututotara, Rangitikei, and came to the front with an early reinforcement of the Wellington Battalion. He got his commissioa in the Imperial Army just a year ago, and after a few months' training at Sunderland he went over to France.

Another victim of the big German offensive is Major J. G. Goodfellow, R.E. Major Goodfellow belonged to Auckland, and was Assistant Engineer to the Lyttelton Harbour Board until 1914, when he resigned to get experience abroad. In March of the following year he passed at the top of the liet for the A.M. Inst. C.E., and was awarded the Bayliss prize. He then got his commission in an Edinburgh company of the Royal Engineers, with which he went to the Western front. Lieutenant Goodfellow was promoted captain in August, 1916, and major commanding a field company only a few months ago. His brother, Lieutenant E. H. Goodfellow, R.F.A., went to the front in the earliest weeks of the war with an Australian Field Hospital and qualified for the 1914 Star. He afterwards got hie commission in the R.F.A., and was killed in March,

Lieutenant Poster B. Crouch, D.C.L.L,' who was reported killed, was formerly in the Railway Department in New Zealand, and came to England in Jnly, 1915. The following month he joined the Inns of Court 0.T.C., and in August, 1916, was commissioned to the D.C.L.I. He had been in France eighteen months, and had been mentioned in despatches. Another New Zealamler who at present is on iha missing list is Second Lieutenant Owen T. Harper, son of Archdeacon C. C. Harper, of Newington Parish Church, formerly of Palmerston North and St. Peter's, Wellington. Lieutenant Harper only recently left school and got his commission in the Leicester Regiment. Lieutenant M. H. O'Rorke, 12th Lancers (Auckland) was wounded in the retreat on the Somme; and is now in. hospital in London.

The death is announced) in action of Sub-Lieutenant Hilary A. H. S. Kenny, R.N.D., son of the fete Dr. A. S. Kenny, of Onehunga, and' of Mis. Kennv, of Westcliff. Lieutenant Kenny was educated at Epsom College, and joined the R.N. Division as a seaman in 1914, obtaining his commission after serving ■ through Gallrpoli. Lientenan£ B. J. Hodson, -who visited New Zealand as the representative of the Central News Agency on the occasion of the return of Scott's Expedition from the Antarctic, has been killed in action. Lieutenant Hodson served in the Boer War and was afterwards correspondent for the Central News in two Balkan Wars, and at the beginning of the present war. He got his commission in ihe Royal Irish Regiment at the end of 1915. Sergeant L. W. Thurston, Welsh Beginient (Heriot, Otago), has been wounded. His number is 24212.