NEW ZEALAND CASUALTIES

Evening Star, Issue 16236, 4 October 1916, Page 3

NEW ZEALAND CASUALTIES

The following list was issued by the Base Records yesterday (next of kin triven in parentheses):— KILLED IN ACTION. (September 15.) EVENSON, Private HERBERT, ERWARD (Miss I. Evenson, Maungatera, Hawke’s Bay, sister). DIED FROM WOUNDS. (September 23.) WINTER, Lance-corporal GEORGE ERNEST (Mr 11. Winter, Tylvania via Heyfield, Victoria-, brother). (September 25.) BLAIR, Lance-corporal ARTHUR CAMPBELL (Mrs M. Blair, Wallscnd, New South Wales, mother). WOUNDED, (September 22.) Second lieutenant Thomas Little Wilson (Mr T. Wilson, Wellington, father). WOUNDED AND ADMITTED TO HOSPITAL. (September 16.) Trooper Wm. Allan Parkinson (Mr J. Parkinson, Elstemwick, Melbourne). 'The following hospital and nrogress report was issued by the Government yesterday ; DANGEROUSLY ILL FROM WOUNDS. Rifleman J. H. Sievwright. Rifleman R. C. Wallace. SERIOUSLY ILL FROM (WOUNDS. Rifleman J. J. M‘Mdllan. REMOVED FROM SERIOUSLY ILL LIST. Rifleman N. Nicholson. MEN WHO FELL. KILLED. Among the Now Zealanders killed at the Somme, battle was Private Gordon Cheyno, who, prior to enlisting, was head la*d to the well-known Ashburton trainer A. Pringle. The deceased, who was best known to trotting men as “Doddy,” was a brother-in-law of the owner of Zetland i Lodge, lie was with Pringle for some time, and had charge ,f ' K o Trotting Cup winner Win Soon when she was in Pringle’s charge. Rifleman Augustus Arthur Vernon (killed in action on September 15) was tho youngest of throe brothers, sons of Mr and ilrs Henry Vernon, of Milton, who enlisted in the Empire’s service. Rifleman Vernon, who was 20 years and 9 months •old. enlisted as a bugler with Lord Liverpool’s Own Eitlo Brigade, and left with tho pioneer company of that brigade, which accompanied tho 2ml Maori Reinforcements. After embarking on active service he was, at liis own desire, transferred from bugler to rifleman. home time was spent at Zeitonn, and afterwards with the Railway Transport Service during the attack on the Senussi tribe prior to embarkation for France. Ho was an ex-pupil of the Tokomairiro High School, ami was employed as a hairdresser’s assistant at Milton at the time of enlisting. Of a virile, cheery disposition, he was an active member of several local institutions. Unking a particularly lively interest in the Y.M.C.A.. Territorials (as sergeantbugler), Oddfellows, and also as a chorister at St. John’s Anglican Church. Another ox-pupil of the Tokomairiro High. School who paid the supreme sacrifice on September 15 was Gunner Ernest P. Knight (a son of Mr and Mrs A. P. Knight, formerly of Milburn, but now resident at Christchurch). During his school days Gunner Knight proved an adept pupil, securing the dux prize. He also passed the Civil Service examination and matriculation examination after two years in tho secondary department. He took a. keen interest in the school cadets, was one of the best shots, and was chosen as a member of tho Tokomairiro School team which won tho Government challenge shield. ’ On leaving school he took up law studies. He was on the staff of the Magistrate’s Court at Nelson when ho enlisted with the artillery reinforcements. His elder brother Porta! enlisted in the 6th Reinforcements, and is in France. WOUNDED. Bombardier James Lewis Brown (wounded) is the elder eon of Mr James Brown, Ncrtli-cast Valley. He was born at Opoho 24 years ago, and received his education at the- George Street and Northeast \ alley Schools. H« received his first training in the Valley School C'adete. under Major Murray. Prior to enlistment in t-bo main body at Hamilton, Waikato, ho was employed in farming pursuits. Private Stanley Rutherford, reported wounded, September 15, is the youngest son of the late Mr Peter Rutherford. He was educated at Ma'cau. a.ml engaged in farming. Private Rutherford went away with the Bth Rein forcemeats, and while I in' Franco experienced two cm three narrow' escapes, his hat on one occasion being pierced by a bullet, while on two other occasions he was buried under earth dislodged by shells. Rifleman Samuel O’Leary was bom in Dunedin in 1894. He was educated in Kelson. When be left school be followed tiie occupation of fanning, and bad taken up a small bush section just before lie joined the Expeditionary Forces, and he left with the 9th Contingent. Lanco-corporal Douglas R. M‘Lean was Lem at Opoho in the year 1893. He was educated at the George Street School .and tho Otago Boys’ High School. For over five years ho was in the Union Ban!: at Waimato. He went away with the 4th N.Z.E.F. ; landed in Gallipoli at tho begnuiiug of June, 1915, and remained there until tiie evacuation in December. Afterwards ho was sent to Flanders, whore he was with a machine-gun section until wounded on the 16th nit. Private George Stark, who is reported wounded in Franco on September 15, is tho second youngest son of Mr Wm. J. Stark, of W.vikoikoi. He left New Zealand with the 6th Reinforcements, Otago Mounted Rifles, and at the breaking up of that body was transferred to tho Pioneer Battalion. Ho was at the evacuation of Gallipoli, having been there two months. Private Stark, who is 25 years of ago, received Ills education at the ’Koi School, being a native of that district. Prior to his leaving for the war he was engaged in farming. • _Sergeant Joseph A. Petre, fourth son of Mr F. D. Petro, .architect, comes of representative pioneer families, his grandfather, the late Hon. Henry Petre, being one of tbs earliest settlors of Wellington” and on bis mother’s side ho is the greatgrandson of Captain Cargill, founder of Otago province, himself a distinguished officer in the Peninsular War. Joseph Petro was horn, in-1893, educated at St. Patrick’s School, South Dunedin, and afterwards at the Technical School. Having passed his Civil Service examination, he was given a position in the Government Life Insurance, Christchurch. He was not 21 when war was declared, and was amongst the first to volunteer for active service. He left with the main body, and was in the famous landing of April 25. After 16 weeks on Gallipoli he was invalided to England, and hail only been sir. wcelcs in France when lie was wounded. Sergeant Petre's two elder brothers aro . in France, Captain E. H. Petre, of the Suffolk Regiment, and Sapper Bernard , F. Petre, Ist New Zealand En ginccrs, who is also an Anzac. Private A, W. (Bert) 'Bonnet- (reported i wounded in the left thigh and admitted to hospital on September 17) is tho eldest roti of Mr W. L. Teimet, of Momington. , He was educated at the Momington and i Normal Schools. He served his" time in ! the Hillside railway workshops, and lator ; on was moved to Invercargill, where ho [ resided for some years He was an active . member there of the Railway Fire P.ri- . gade. He. enlisted and went away with iho Ist Liverpool’s Owii to Egypt, there I meeting his brother Murray, and lator on « meeting him in • Fra pec. Prior to leaving j Egypt volunteers was asked for the am- . balance, and having some knowledge of flic . work he joined that branch, and Juts been serving with it since in France.