WHILE DOING THEIR DUTY

Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 81, 2 October 1918, Page 7

WHILE DOING THEIR DUTY

:y CASUALTIES ■ '■"■•''• ;'■'■■" ■*■:'' :" TT^/Sf:O^'-""<>.!^;«; : '■ Corporal': S.:-;Garryv^^fsbn tqf,£jifr^/^i: v; 2 .Garry, of the.•.Thames);'"•^ho^has^lbe^ii 1;:;'j ■ ikilled-;in France,, was..one ;pj; i fpw,-b]rptJi-..'-V'-£ :ers':on;:a)ctiye. service. :} \\'.'s'i. ■/.; -;'? ' .Lance-Corpca-al'E. -■& M'Kinstry::(kilkr:-y; ed iri ■■ action): was., tb.e second: son. of ; Mr,--i :■■•'-, .■E..X.. M'Kinstry/.manager of.the;Kaurj..,■':;.Timber. ."Gompany.'s. ,mUI i'-in". Au'^land,C,;<3 Learning the trade'of a- joiner,' he eriter> r'-3 ed into partnership", with -..his brother, •-;--.' ;Priyate,B.;A. M'Kinstryj{wha»w"as'"^y:-:,;:v;v erely wbunded!'in. May].'^£arice-Gorpb?ai ':>■'■■■'■: ;M'Kinstry left;-with::the::2atf'.R6inf^!e^-« ? ments, and .was about, twelve inoiithguri'"':''■ -France^;''"':.;; ■-.:' i^'Jr'M''--'^-:l-^V^:^- 'v'C

;. Private E. 0. H. Marsh, who died> s oi.v;v.: ,wounds'ion 2nd;Septetnheiv >va3™born; iiiK-^ ; Kngland,:;,- where his. parents .still, reside:: 1.:-'^ He enlisted md.left withthe 27th Eeiri- V ' iforcoraents, and .prior'to; leaving . for the/ fy front;;was -,at Hamilton.iv.He. ;- came to New Zealand .about'eley.enjy^ai;*^ i ' ago. ,; He. was •■■3ftvyear»'-. of ..age- at.-'the-..' time ; of his death,'and!-leaves!a":wifq■arid.'' ■'•'• .thi;ee: children, ...residing:, at Grey Lynri v ,,: .:,:

; Wlien he. was: la years of .age, Gunsieß.''. v |;W : :,E;-lWpods .(kille'd'inaction)' didgarr' V \i' rison:;;duty'at :-F6rt; Cau'tley, '"Aucklarid^: •'.; -?- Onreaching'the age of'.''W hoenlisted -fbr*'i* aotive. service, leaving with 'the-viith": 'S; Reinforcements (New Zealand:. Field-Ar-/-v:: cillery).; He was "wouiided ysi battle,:'of Messines; 7th.;tJune, '■'■ 1917;- :x whilst,'•..: serving, ,-wiifch^ the.--. 9th- Battary3::v Trerioh^Mortar.Brigade,;was admitted/to j;:;; Brockenhurst'Hospital^and/on/recoy^y^; 1!; 1 returned to France,-.was gassed in. March',;,--;,| 1918, and after spending three month's -'iniXV 'hospitalitejoiped h'ia old.'battery^.S^^,':'- ---■; Corporal; Herbert ' H-! Sb^fp, ofv!Gis^"V borne^^^ "who ;has * been '.kilJed^fjaii.Jictiftiiiv":;.' :was;.'formerly.• manager.'!■ of- ■-two.;sheep^:i '•', stations on'ithe East Goasfc' owned:byrMr?^'.! !'■': Hugh^ Carlyoni< and'r-.la.ter; was-,taana^e'*^:;;*: of Mr,' 'Cariyptfs property,- ;;Kah'urarig& ''£ 'at Glenfield, in; the :-Birkdale district.-/t'>.: •'■;

Rifleman Leslie James Stanley, killed in action on 12th September, was 25 years of age, and left New Zealand, wjth. the 33rd Reinforcements He was th# son of Mr, Joseph Stanley, of Fendalton,' Canterbury, and prior tq -going into camp was employed in the Christchurch branch of the Pnblic Trust Offipe -"'' Private li. R Percival, (ljilla'd A^ action at the age of 20} belonged'to Sydenham 1, and before leavmg with thp 19th Reinforcements was m^the service of the Railway Department Bs was'in. the Battle of Messmes, and 'Was » wounded,