NEW ZEALAND CASUALTIES

Evening Star, Issue 15928, 7 October 1915, Page 3

NEW ZEALAND CASUALTIES

[Per United Press Association.] WELLINGTON, October 6. The following casualties to members of the Ne.v Zealand Expeditionary Force arc announced : DIED FROM DISEASE. OTAGO BATTALION. (Sept cm her 30.) Private PHILIP PHELAN, enteric, died at Malta (Mr Philip , Phelan, Reefton, Lather). - * NEW ZEALAND FIELD -AMBULANCE. (September 29.) Private HUGH ROBERT SHRIMPYON, enteric, died at Malta (Airs F. Shrimpton, Addington, mother). NEW ZEALAND VETERINARY CORPS. (October 4.) Private ALBERT JOHN VIVIAN DAVIS, consumption, died in Dunedin Hospital (Mrs Davis, Invercargill). PREVIOUSLY REPORTED IN ERROR DIED FROM ENTERIC. OTAGO MOUNTED. Sergeant Robert William Craig (Airs Alary M‘K. Craig, Waitahnna-, mother). WOUNDED. AUCKLAND BATTALION. ' (No date given.) Private Lewis Harold Reid, knee (Air A 1 exander Reid, Herbert road, Auckland), Private Thomas Stephen Patterson, hip (Annie Patterson. Kent, England). NEW ZEALAND FIELD ARTILLERY. (No date given.) Gunner ALchael Daniel Hughes, shoulder (Airs Alary Ann Hughes, Invercargill, mother). The following list was issued bv the Government yesterday: DISEMBARKED AT MALTA, Auckland Battalion.—Privates H. Harwood, AT. Carroll (slightly sick). Battalion.—Private 11. F. Kemble. Army Service Corps.—Sergeant C. E. Taylor. SICK; DISCHARGED FROM HOSPITAL; NOW CONVALESCENT, ALEXANDRIA. Otago Battalion.—Privates R. F. Evans, A. Gilling, F. Nicholls, E. Robertson. Otago Alounted.—Sergeant S. W. Fearn, Troopers R. W. Brent and W. J. Race. Auckland Battalion.—Lance-corporal T. Lath ill, Privates J. Kellow, H. J. Mullins, IT. Skeen. AI. F. Stevenson. Auckland Mounted.—Trooper A. V. Smith. Wellington Battalion.—Privates J. Allen, A. W. Goodall, F. King, O. Whittaker, U. Pilkington. Wellington Alounted.—Troopers R. W. E Curran. I. L. Fraser, A. .AI. Hvslop, W. APKinley. ’ / Canterbury Battalion.—Privates W. ; F. Hume, T. B. Straker, C. Tulley. Canterbury Alounted.—Troopers F. H. Hatton and D. A. Lusk. JNew Zealand Field Engineers.—Sappers V. R, Alulgan, A. J. Snelgrove, G. H. Thorpe. Lew Zealand Field Artillery.—Gunners II L. Collins, A. IV Dixon. A. J. Dumper, J. H. Alilne, J. P. Moriarity, E. Alowhray, J. R. Stevens,. T. Tkwaite,- T. Pilcher, A. R. Wilkie, Driver A. S. Driver. Veterinary Corps.—Driver J. F. Wilkinson, Trooper A. Alartin. NOW CONVALESCENT, ALEXANDRIA. Auckland Alounted.—Trooper J. H. Heath. New Zealand Artillery.—Gunner S. F. G. Williams. Army Service Corps.—Drivers' J. F. A Lassie and G. T. APConnell. AUSTRALIAN CASUALTIES. SYDNEY, October 6. The eighty-seventh and eighty-eighth casualty lists show:— * ■ Killed in Action.—Twelve, including Private J. A. MACDONALD. Died of Wounds.—Forty-four. Mounded.—Eight officers and 144’men, including Privates C. Hargreaves, E. A. Cook. G. APGrath, and N. E. Doherty. HI-—Twenty officers and 367 men, including Sergeants C. H. Tonge and W C. Lines, Privates AY. Rodgers, R. Alacgregor, G. A. Crutchfield, F. Ta.it, and E. E. Stainteford.

Disembarked at Alalia.—Lance-corporal G. E. H. Woods, Driver H. T. Dudley, Privates J. Chisholm, B. W. J. Herbert, 11. D. Finnerty, J. D. Hangy. Alissing.—Ninety-four, including Privates P. H. Alunro and H. B. Hewlett. Colonel Ryrie, who is in command of tho Australian Light Horse at tho Dardanelles, has been wounded in the neck, ihe wound Is not serious. Nulla Roberts, the well-known Rugby Union three-quarter, has been killed in action. He has several times X’Dyed against New Zealand teams. PERSONAL NOTES. Private Leonard AY. G. Nicholls. reported as having died at sea from scarlet fever, was a eon of Air F. J. Nicholls, 31 AAardeu street. Opoho. Dunedin. Gunner E. A. Hendlo (sth Reinforcements, reported died of enteric) was the third son of Air and Airs AA r . Hendle. of Kaiwarra, Wellington. Ho was born at Kaiwarra, and attended the local school. At the time of his death ho was 26 years of age. He played full-back for the old Kaiwarra. and Wadestown Football Clubs. His brothers, Len and AVilliam, arc also serving their country. The latter was wounded, and is now in' London. Lance-corporal Guy Alunro (wounded) is the eldest son of Mr David Alunro, chief railway auditor, AA’ellington, and is well known in Christchurch. He was born in AA r ellington 27 years ago, and was educated at Christ’s College for some years. He was a prominent member of the Cathedral Choir. He was also well known in Dunedin musical circles. Lancecorporal Alunro was an accountant in the Jarrah Timber Company offices in Dunedin, and enlisted in the Otago Alounted Rifles. He is at present an inmate of St. 'Thomas’s Hospital, London, and a cable message recently received by his parents reported him making satisfactory progress. Sergeant L. T. Davis (died of wounds) was for some time a member of the staff of the Gisborne branch of tho Bank of New South AYides. He was a prominent athlete, and a member of the Gisborne Rowing. United Cricket, and Poverty Bay Golf Clubs. Private Hugh Roberts Shrimpton (died of enteric at Malta) was a grandson of the founder of the ‘Lyttelton Times.’ He was 21 years of age and a prominent member of the Sydenham Cricket and Football Clubs. He belonged to the Canterbury Alounted Field Ambulance.