PERSONAL MATTERS

Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 154, 27 December 1918, Page 8

PERSONAL MATTERS

The Superintendent of Police at Aackand advises that Sergeant V. R. Tayler, in charge of the Parnell Police Station, died yesterday as the result of an operation for an • internal complaint. He had been suffering since 4th November. Sergeant Tayler joined the police" force in November, 1897, and he was stationed at various places in the South Island. While at Palmerston South he was promoted sergeant and removed to Wanganui. He was later placed in charge of the ParneD Station. ,-.,', Rifleman Thomas H. Storey, who has died of pneumonia in England, was the son of Mr. Charles Storey; of WhatipuJ Auckland. He was born at Huia and completed his educStion-at the Whangarei High School. ? Subsequently he joined the Railway Department, in the northern town, and when he enlisted was stationed at Wanganui. At the outset of the war he went with the 15th North Auckland Company 1 ' to garrison the wireless station at Awannj. The late soldier's brother, Trooper E. G. Storey, was recently wounded in Palestine. Captain E. H. Sharp, M.C., of Masterton, who returned invalided to New Zealand last week, saw two years! service abroad. He was a. Lieutenant in the 17th (Ruahine) Regiment when he joined up as an officer of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force, and won his promotion in the 'field. He was awarded the Military Cross "for conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty. 'During the consolidation after an attack; when the officer in command of another company was killed, he took command, and consolidated the position quickly. He set a fine example to his men throughout." , Flight-Chief Petty Officer C. H. A. Simpson, R.N.A.S., son of Mr. ■ Arthnr Simpson, of Wanganui East, has returned to New Zealand., Enlisting in England in September, 1914, ,he was badly injured through his machine crashing in the 'first aerial raid on Zeebrugge in January, 1915. During I the following March he rejoined the service as an instructor of technical transport, and served in France as a despatch rider attached to the Intelligence Department. After taking part in the Vimy Ridge and Arras battles, he was badly gassed and invalided to England. Second Lieutenant Joseph James Herzog, who was wounded on 4th November last, and died on the 17th of. the present month, was the surviving son of Mr. Joseph Paul Herzog, of Mitchelf-street, Brooklyn. Born at Easjjham, London, 23 years ago, he was brought out to Wellington by his parents when he was three years old. He received his'education at' Newtown and Brooklyn Schools, and was fanning in the Wairarapa when he enlisted, in May, 1915. In October of that year he left with the Main Body of the Rifle Brigade, and saw service in Egypt before he went to the Western front. Until last month he had never been wounded. His elder brother,' Corporal Charles Herzog, who left with a later Reinforcement, was killed in action on 19th May, 1916, at the age of 24.