IN HONOUR'S CAUSE

Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 93, 16 October 1918, Page 7

IN HONOUR'S CAUSE

CASUALTIES TO EX-NEW ZEALANDERS. .

(FROM DDR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) LONDON, 2nd September., Dr. P. N. Johns/N.Z.M*C, reported killed in action, was in the 3rd Reid Ambulance. He gradnated at Edinburgh in 1913, and received the Military Dross not long ago. Captain Johns was married in England only three weeks since» The death is reported of Major Bernard Charles Tennent, M.C., E.A.M.C; who was killed on 22nd August.' He belonged to Martinborough, and was a.son of the late Eev. E. C. tennent. When war waa declared Major. Tennent was, in New Zealand, and he at once came to; England to offer his services. After a brief hospital experience abroad in a civilian capacity he obtained a commission in. the R.A.M.C. in January, 1915, and he had served almost continuously on different fronts. In 1917 he was awarded the Military.Cross, a-nd a bar was added at the beginning of 1918. It is on official record that he was "constantly exposing himself with the utmost fearlessness under heavy shell fire in order to visit the posts in the front trenches. He'dressed many men in the open, regardless of .personal danger, and, when his bearers became casualties, 1 he took their .places and assisted to carry the wounded himself." A correspondentwrites to The Times: "Everyone who had to do with Major Tennent- bore tribute to the charm of his personality,. for with every manly and athletic quality he combined an endearing gentleness and grace of spirit, and his colonel has written in heartfelt terms for the loss which his death involves. For himself, however, apart'from Ihis'great joy in his toobrief married happiness, he would have asked to tread no other path than that already trodden by his life-long friend, Captain Douglas Reid, M.C., Blenheim, and by the many other members of his noMe profession who have made the supreme sacrifice in the service of their comrades in arms.". In June,. 1917, he married-Miss' Daisy Skarratt, youngest' daughter of. the late.Mr..o. C. Skarratt!

2nd Lieutenant F.N:'Fleming, R.G.A. (Napier), who was reported missing in March, is now presumed to have died on a date prior to 30th June last. Lieutenant Fleming was formerly a sergeant in the N.Z.F.A., and was discharged for his Imperial commission in April, 1917.