IN THE EMPIRE’S CAUSE

Evening Star, Issue 23886, 16 May 1941, Page 8

IN THE EMPIRE’S CAUSE

LATEST CASUALTY LIST FOURTEEN DEATHS [Pbr United Press Association.] WELLINGTON, May 15. The following additional casualties to members of the 2nd New Zealand .Expeditionary Force were reported today : Private LAURENCE BRIAN BOSWORTH; father, Mr L. A. Bosworth, Opuuake. Private iiERBERT HENRY BURGESS; mother, Mrs L. Burgess, Maugamaire, Pahiatua. Sergeant JOHN STANLEY HORTON BRING; wife, Mrs A. D. Bring, Masterton. Sergeant THOMAS LOGIE; wife, Mrs C. B. Logie, Lower Hutt. Private JOHN O’BRIEN; mother, Mrs Putu O’Brien. Te Puke. Lance-corporal ALLEN EDWARD O’NEILL; father, Mr E. H. O’Neill, Temuka. „ Lance-corporSl GEORGE MURRAY SANDIFORD; father, Mr G. Y. H. Sandiford, Waitotara. ' Private JOHN ROSS TUaTIN; mother, Mrs A. M. Tustm, Wellington. Private BOUGLAS WILSON; wife, Mrs M. Wilson, Wellington. Lieutenant NIGEL REAY M‘KAY; father, Mr C. M‘Kay, Waipu. Private FRANCIS CHARLES BLOXSOME; father, Mr F. H. Bloxsome, Auckland. Private JAMES ANBREW GREEN; mother, Mrs W. Hanson, Bluff. Lance-corporal NORMAN ERNEST LOVELL; father, Mr E. A. Lovell, Inglewood. —Bied of Wounds. — Private JAMES COLLINGWOOD; friend Mr J. J. Crab, Matamata. —Prisoner of War. — Private REGINALB HENRY POWELL; wife, Mrs E. M. Powell, Hawera.—Wounded. — (Otago). Private Bavid George William Smyth; mother, Mrs 1. K. Smyth, Bunedin. Private John James Tregea; wife, Mrs_ E. C. Tregea, Tahuna, Dunedin. (Other Districts.) Lieutenant-colonel Hugh Graeme Carruth; mother, Mrs M. E. Carruth, Wainui, Whangarei. Captain William Richard Kimmitt rison; father, Mr William Morrison, Auckland. Private Thomas Harold Douglas Clark ; mother, Mrs Jessie Clark, Waimate. Private Jack Cockroft; wife, Mrs H. Cockroft, Upper Hutt. Gunner Henry Edward Denver; wife, Mrs P. V. Denyer, Auckland. Sergeant Douglas Gordon Dillon; mother, Mrs E. A. Dillon, Otane. Private Douglas Lloyd George; father, Mr A. George, Moturoa. Driver Arthur William Hearn; mother, Mrs Eliza Hearn, Waihi. Private William Arthur Johnson; father, Mr G. W. Johnson, Lumsden. Private Alexander George Leslie Lambert ; mother, Mrs M. Lambert, Hawera. Private Charles Stewart Lovett; brother, Mr W. J. Lovett, Aramoho. Corporal» Christopher John M'Carthy; wife, Mrs A. E. M'Carthy, Auckland. Corporal Harold Marshall; wife, Mrs H. M. Marshall, Auckland. Lance-sergeaut lan Brown Munro; brother, Captain A. Munro, North Head, Auckland. Private George Henry Peacock; brother, Mr E. Peacock, Hihitahi. Private Charles Adair Pistor; mother, Mrs E. Pistor, Gisborne. Sapper Stanley Barrington Reitman; father, Mr A. Reitman, Thames. Sapper Roger William Turner; Mrs N. J. Patrick, Christchurch, relationship not stated. Private Sydney Alexander Wright; father, Mr W. C. Wright, Maugere. Second-lieutenant Sidney George Lyle Smythe; father, Mr W. S. Smythe, England. Sergeant Frederick Borrows; mother, Mrs J. C. A. Borrows, England. Private' Hank Cairney; mother, Mrs J. Cairney, Canada. Private Albert Mitchell Dobson; wife, Mrs I. A. M. Dobson, Whangarei. Sergeant William Bruce Myers Freney'; next-of-kin (relationship not stated), Mrs T. S. Hower, Auckland. Lance-corporal Edwin Mitchelson Taylor; sister, Mrs Z. Higgins, Auckland. Lance-sergeant Clifford Bruce Wallace; father, Mr J. A. Wallace, Auckland. AIR FORCE. The following Air Force casualties were announced to-day:— Sergeant JAMES CLARK CATTELL, R.N.Z.A.F., now reclassified as missing and believed killed; mother, Mrs M. E. Cattell, 43 Messines road, Karori. Sergeant BASIL ALEXANDER WALKER, R.N.Z.A.F., killed on air operations; Mother, Mrs K. Walker, 39 Cameron road, Napier. Sergeant NORMAN FRANKLIN DIXON, R.N.Z.A.F., killed on air operations; father, Mr C. Dixon, 138 Earn street, Invercargill. Pilot-officer Norman Mervyn Kebbell Kirkcaldie, R.N.Z.A.F., missing on air operations; mother, Mrs N. Kirkcaldie, 80 Hobson street, Wellington. *■ The following additional Air Force casualties were announced to-day:— Sergeant ALEXANDER COUTTS MEE, missing, believed killed in air operations; grandmother, Mrs J. Coutts, Brighton, Otago. Flying Officer RALPH HOLDEN NI COLSON, killed in an aircraft accident; mother, Mrs E. M. Nicolson, Christchurch. Pilot Officer DANIEL M'LEAN CAMPBELL, missing in air operations; uncle, Mr J. W. Campbell, Herne Bay, Auckland. NAVAL RATING. The Minister of Defence (Mr Jones) announced the following casualty to a New Zealand rating serving with the Royal Navy who was wounded during an action with enemy aircraft;—Signalman Clarence Singleton, R.N.V.R.; father, Mr J. Singleton, Wellington.