NEW ZEALAND CASUALTIES

Evening Star, Issue 15892, 26 August 1915, Page 9

NEW ZEALAND CASUALTIES

• [Pad tisiTisb’ Pitosa AesodlAtloH.] ‘ WELLINGTON, August 25. ' The following casualties to members oi New Zealand,. Expeditionary Forces ire announced • DIED PROM DYSENTERY. CANTERBURY BATTALION. - 6/1789—Private EDWARD BROWN, died in New Zealand General Hospital, Cairo, August 20 (Mrs Bridget Brown, ‘Alexander street, Greyinouth> mother), '■ WOUNDED. OTAGO BATTALION. . 8/975—Private Alex. Mathieson, shoulder and arm (Mr Alex. Mathieson, Co- ■ lomho street, Christchurch, father). 1 AUCKLAND BATTALION. (August 8.) ■ ' . 12/568 —Private Wm. Henry Jamieson (Mr L. F. Jamieson, Wellington, father). . (August 9.), 12/512 —Private Samuel Thomas Browne, doing duty (Mr John R. Lambert, Towai, Auckland). WELLINGTON BATTALION. (August 7 to 9.) 10/1041—Private Thos. Ernest Whitfield (Mrs Whitfield, Desmond toad, Gisborne). 10/1240a —Private Sydney Gaston,- but-. • took, second time (Mrs Annie Gaston, Perth, W.A., mother). 10/158& —Private Wm. John MTntosh (Mr J. MTntosh, care of Messrs Gilbert, Boalton, and Co., Albert street, Auckland). (August 8.) 10/290—Private Arthur Chas. Bird, slightly (Mr Gordon Elliott, Fcildiiig). (August 16.) 10/910—Private Allan Preston (Mr J. W. Preston, Stockport, England). (No, date given.) 10/180 —Sergeant Waldo Edward Berrill, chin and neck (Mrs E. Berrill, Victoria street, Carterton). . CANTERBURY BATTALION. (August 7 to 9.) 6/2097 —Private William Coleman Cooke, hand (Mr James Cooke, Lower Riccarton, -Christchurch, father). 6/1618—Private Albert Mason, slightly - (Mrs E. Mason, Kaitaia, Auckland North). (No date given.) ~ , 6/611 —Private Wm, Davidson, head. (Mrs J. Stephens, Cobden, Greymouth). NEW ZEALAND FIELD ENGINEERS. • 4/2291—Lahce-corporal Conran Masters Perry (Mr William Perry, Penrose, Masterton). v 4/196a —Sapper Cyril Do Baupre Frost ■ (British section), lower- extremities (Dr Francis Joshua, Cavagh street, Malvern, /England). 4/130a—Sapper Frederick Thomas Simmonds, lower extremities (Miss M. Simmonds, Leeds, England). - 4/57a —-Sapper Robert Hetherington Shaw, left foot (Mrs E. J. Shaw, Southsea, , England). •N.Z. DIVISIONAL SIGNAL COMPANY. (August 6.) 4/685—Sapper Frederick Victor Senn (Mrs Hossack, Pokeno Valley, Auckland). DIVISIONAL HEADQUARTERS. (August 9.) 15/89—Sergeant-major Ronald Saunderson Talbot, slightly (Mr W. J. C. Talbot, Palmerston North, father). . ADMITTED TO FIRST AUSTRALIAN CENTRAL HOSPITAL, HELIO* OTAGO BATTALION. - (August 11.) ■ 8/2343—Private George William Harlen, .bullet wound in arm (Mr Thos. Harlen. Waverley, father). ADMITTED TO No. 2 GENERAL 1 ' HOSPITAL, CHEZIREH. (August 12.) ' OTAGO BATTALION, 8/2100—Private Joseph Potter, gunshot . wound in leg (Mr G. Potter, Opatu, Wanganui River, father). 8/U4O-: —Private: Leonard Willinni. George , Nicholls, wounded in chest (Mr Fredk.. yJohn Nicholk, Dunedin, father). :• WELLINGTON BATTALION. MO/778—Corporal John Robt. Reed, gunshot wounds in kg and am (Mr Herbert Nicholls, Waverley), -WELLINGTON MOUNTED. • 11/592—Trooper Pei-cy Stafford Liver- : more, gunshot wound in arm (Mr E. Liver- - .more, Auckland). ADMITTED TO SECOND AUSchezireh! ENERAL hosp,tal ' (August 12.) WELLINGTON MOUNTED. 11/9 —Corporal Walter Ramsay Boyd, gunshot wound in knee (Mr D. M. Boyd . Hastings, father). . ’ Admitted to isth general hospital, Alexandria. (August 13.} OTAGO BATTALION. 8/2328—Private Frank Fulton Wood, wounded August 7 to 9 (Mrs A. Wood, Hampstead, London, motjer). -, CANTERBURY BATTALION. .. 5/2018—Private Charlie, Young, wounded in the hack, August 7 to 9 (Mrs Cora Young, Motueka, wife). The following list was issued by the Government last night; ADMITTED TO 19th GENERAL HOSPITAL, ALEXANDRIA. , OTAGO BATTALION. (No date given.) . Private Allan North, dangerously ill, . (August 18.) Private Edwin . William Slater. AUCKLAND BATTALION. Private Wm. Orr M’Diarmid. CANTERBURY BATTALION. Private Frank W. Lukey. ADMITTED TO 21st GENERAL HOSPItAL, ALEXANDRIA. (August 22.) . OTAGO MOUNTED. Lieutenant Leonard Miller, slight enteric. ADMITTED to government HOS* PITAL, ALE-XANt>Hi*,. N.Z. field ARTILLERY. 2/474—Corporal Ernest Hunter Carter, • debility (Sarah Carter, Katikati Bay). ADMITTED TO 15th GENERAL'HOSPITAL, ALEXANDRIA. (August 16.) AUCKLAND BATTALION. Second Lieutenant C. L. Knight, slight gnnshoi wound in buttock. , CANTERBURY BATTALION. . Major 33. B. Jordan, NEW ZEALAND MEDICAL CORPS. Captain C. V. Baigent, sick. ADMITTED TO NEW ZEALAND GENERAL HOSPITAL, CAIRO, OTAGO BATTALION. Private W. R. Morris, dangerously ill with pneumonia. , CANTERBURY BATTALION. ' ’ Sergeahi L, J£, Baker, dangerously ill with cellulitis ui the arm. J - , ARMY SERVICE CORPS.’ Driver J. ]\L Real, dangerously TU, admitted to m, 2 general HOSPITAL, CAIRO, : (August 12.) ’ AUCKLAND BATTALION. Private F. J;.‘ Sprained afiklo, ADMITTED TO MILITARY HOSPITAL, BOMBAY. CANTERBURY BATTALION. Private, F. W. Steveflson, measles. SICK AND WOUNDED ARRIVED IN LONDON. Otago Battalion,—Privates N. B, Thompson, R. .Pauli, J. H. Wakefield, D. w. M’Doegall, Bugler S, Jafekson. Otago Mounted.—Sergeant J. S. Skifti J, V, M'lTe, 'Hooper J, N.

Auckland Battalion.—Corporal P. Warbrick, Sergeant S; R. Johnston, Privates W. G. Bassett, W. Bowdall, W. M. Lynch, J. P. Hansen, Corporal 0. 0. Cowan. Auckland Mounted. H. T. Atkinson, Corporal JVL JE.. Johnson. -Wellington Battalion.—Privates E. 6. Skilling and P. M. Furniss. Welhngfcon Mounted.—Troopers J‘. Stoddart and P. L. West, Lance-corporal 0. G. Stewart, v Canterbury Battalion.—Privates N. F. Burnett, A. T. Smith, G. F. Black, S. Balon, M. D. Carter. Canterbury Mounted.— Trooper £>. T. Skilton. - N/ew; Zealand Field Artillery.—Gunners G. MTntyro and F. J. Gospodnetich. New Zealand Field Engineers.—Lancecorporal B. -L/ Joll, Sappers W. Benson, W. Reynolds, J. A. Nelson. New Zealand Field Ambulance.—Bugler H. A. Neilson. 6 DISEMBARKED AT MALTA FROM HOSPITAL SHIP 'NEURALIA. (About July 25.) , Otago Battalion.—Private W. 0. Willis. ■Auckland Battalion.—Private T. A. Summers. Auckland Mounted.—Trooper R. H. M'Kinney. Wellington Battalion.—Lieutenant G C Wells. PERSONAL. Sergeant Wilfred B. Quennell, reported wounded, is the eldest son of Mr W. B. Quennell, of Ga.versha.in. Sergeant Quennell, who left with the Fifth Reinforcements, - is. 21 years of age, and a native of Melbourne. He was educated at the Momington School and Otago Boys’ High School. TV hen he enlisted he son the staff of the Lands and Survey Department of this City. ( , ' - ■ Private George Fraser’ Paterson (reported wounded, and how in Cairo Hospital) is the youngest sou of Mr Andrew Paterson, builder, 49 Harbor terrace. He was born in Dunedin, and educated at the Albany Street School and the Otago Boys’ High School. After leaving school he was employed at Butterfield’s furniture factory, and for the past-three years, in the Masterton district, from which place he returned to Dunedin and enlisted in the Seventh Reinforcements. He left Dunedin at half a day’s notice to join the Sixth Reinforcements, and subsequently was drafted into the Fifth Reinforcements, with which body he left New Zealand in June. He is 22 years of age, and an ex-member of the Union Football Club ana of Bush Union Clubs in the Masterton district. ‘ Sapper L. J. Wraight was recently reported wounded, bub his relatives could B a in any particulars as to the nature of his wounds. Yesterday his mother (Mrs Wraight, Hereford street, Roslyn) was advised that Sapper Wraight was wounded in the left hand, and was in Malta Hospital, doing well. Private William Haddock, Mounted ■Field Ambulance, wlio was killed in action on August 9, was the eldest son of a r ii Haddock, of Symon-ds street, Auckland. He was born in Dobson Town, near Greymouth, and was 26 years of age- Private Haddock was educated at Thames, and served an apprenticeship in the plumbing trade at Waikino, in the employ of tne Waihi Gold Mining Company. He was for some time in the employ of the Auckland Gas Company, and had been in Christchurch for a few months before the outbreak of war, when he immediately enlisted. Private Geoffrey .Willey (Canterbury Battalion, wounded) is a son of Mr A. Willey, of Fendalton. He celebrated his 21st mrthday in the trenches. He was educated at the Technical College, and was engaged in farming in the Nelson district when he enlisted in the Third Reinforcements. Private Peg. S. R. Murfitt (Canterbury Battalion, wounded) is the fourth son of Mr J. W. Murfitt. Wilson’s road, Christchurch. Ho will be 20 years of age next December. He was born at Eangiora, and educated at the Marisb Brothers’ (school, Christchurch. Leaving school, he entered the railway service, but subsequently took up butchering, being thus employed by Mr Hill, Ferry road, when he joined the Fifth Reinforcements. Private Mnrfitt was a member of the Marist College Club’s junior •fifteen.' Private Roy D. Baker (wounded, and now m No. 17 General Hospital, Alexandria) was Office secretary at the Christchurch Y.M.C.A. at the outbreak of the war, and went away with the Main Expeditionary Force. He is a son of Mr H. Baker, 208 Lambton quay, Wellington. He is a noted swimmer, having made several records, and was giving his life to Y.M.C.A. work, especially work for boys, until the outbreak of the war. Private advice has been received that Private Aubrey S. W. Johnson, second s ° n of M r Walter Johnson, of Christchurch, has been wounded, and is now in Egypt. Private Johnson, who celebrated his 20th birthday in the trenches on May 5 last, was born at Napier, and educated at the Addington and West Ghnstchurch District High Schools and at the Technical Adopting the calling of a chemist, he served his time with Messrs Cook and Ross. His health, however, compelled him to give this up, and when he enlisted with the Main Expeditionary Force be was acting as town traveller for Messrs Benjamin and Co., Christchurch. .Private Johnson joined the Sixth Field Ambulance, and when in attached to the Medical Headquarters Divisional Staff, but was transferred to the Field Ambulance when the New Zealanders set sail for Gallipoli, and he participated in the landing, performing good service with the stretcherbearers, and distinguishing himself in saving the life of a member of the Canterbury Infantry Battalion, Private Johnson was a member of the Addington and Drapers’ Hockey Clubs, and represented the province in junior hockey, n. k- L. Brown (admitted to the 15th General Hospital, Alexandria, suffering from severe gunshot wounds in the ¥U U P and right leg) is the third son of Mr R. Brovin. Hororata. He was born m the Kimberley district in 1896, ms people shifting to Hororata ■when he was six years old. He was educated at the local school, and since starting work he has followed up different lines in North Canterbury and the Wairarana districts. His eldest brother left New Zealand with the Second Contingent for South Africa. He received a shell wound in the left nip, and was invalided h.oma ? but, regaining health, he again left with the. Eighth ; V in ' yhi ? h he wached the rank of sergeant. He also has a younger brother now in camp with the Eighth Mounted Reinforcements. ° ,2 dvi Sf . has 136611 received in Auckland that Private Ernest Hugh Von Stumer son of Mr N. Von Stumer, of , ® 6rald commercial staff, was wounded In the eye on August 8. Private Sp^ Urm T WaS 6du6a ted at Wellington College, and upon going to Auckland became a member of the College Rifles. th p 17ar broke out he joined the Samoan Expeditionary Force, and retumT?.T New Zealand in April joined the w h iw S ir Ilf f C€m - enfc T draft > wh ich sailed for Wellington in June. He is well known in Auckland as a prominent hockey leaver, being a member of the United