TRENTHAM DRAFT

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20248, 16 May 1940, Page 4

TRENTHAM DRAFT

THIRD ECHELON MEN GISBORNE-EAST COAST DEPARTURE TO-MORROW NEARLY 200 RECRUITS Recruits selected for service with the Fifth and Sixth Infantry AntiTank Companies, the Divisional Engineers, the Eighth Field Company, New Zealand Engineers, the Machine Gun Company, Rifle Battalion, the Second New Zealand General Hospital, the 19th and 22nd Welling ion Rifles, the 25th Rifle Battalion, the Sixth Field Infantry Brigade, together with replacement units for the Rifle Battalion, will comprise a draft leaving Gisborne to-morrow for Trentham. The draff will comprise 190 men from Gisborne, the Coast, and Wairoa, and will travel from Wairoa by special train. The departure of Gisborne anci Coast recruits for these units is fixed for 8.30 a.m. to-morrow, and the draft will muster at 7.30 a.m. for checking and for the allocation of seats in the service cars in'which they will proceed as far as Wairoa. After reporting, the men will be given hulf-an-hour to make their farewells in the neighbourhood of the Abcreorn Hall, and at 8 o'clock a roll-call will be held, and final instructions given as to the conduct of the draft on the southward journey. A prompt departure is necessary, as the troop-movement schedule has been drawn up with a view to delivering the recruits to Trentham camp early in the evening. The public, therefore, is requested to co-operate with the Army Department in avoiding delays at the point of departure from Gisborne The roll of recruits for units training at Trentham has been revised during the past two days, and there have been minor alterations necessitated by accidents and other causes. One or two of the men originallyincluded in the Trentham draft have been transferred to units training at other centres, and already have proceeded to their respective carnps; while others not previously named have been included in the roll of the draft, which now stands as under: — Fifth Infantry Anti-Tank Company, Trentham Cliff, Cecil Victor, Tokomaru Bay. Hamilton, Douglas Gordon, Gisborne McKay, Leslie, Tolaga Bay. ; Marshall, Charles Alfred, Wairoa. Masters, Laurence Edward, Wairoa. Eighth Field Company, N.Z. Engineers, Trentham Begley, Michael Joseph, Gisborne. Burch, Noel Browning, Gisborne. Fischback, Philip Julius, Gisborne Harris, Denzil', Gisborne. Heath, Andrew, Wairoa. Jeeves, George Albert, Gisborne. Johnston, James Douglas, Wairoa. Lowe. Francis Clive, Gisborne. McCallion, Michael John. Gisborne. Sixth Field Infantry Brigade. ' Trentham Bright, Trevor Norman, Gisborne. Spinett, Thomas Newby, Gisborne. Divisional Engineers, Trentham Mackay, Kenneth Frederick, Wairoa Scanlan, Harold James, Gisborne. Thornley, John, Piripaua. Machine Gun Company, Rifle Battalion, Trentham Borst, Eric Stanley, Bartletts. Fargher, Philip Allan, Gisborne. Lowe, Bertie Norman Claude, Gisborne. Warren. Albert Edward, Gisborne Rifle Battalion, Trentham Andrew, Lance Ralph, Gisborne. Bickford, Maurice Goodwin, Gisborne Boyd, Denby William, Nuhaka Brown, 'Arthur Douglas, Gisborne. Bruce, Charles, Tolaga Bay. Caldwell, William Aitken Douglas. Gisborne Christensen, Alexander Bernai d. Wairoa Cooke, Douglas Lawrence, Tokomaru Bay. Anderson, Norman George, Gisborne. Coop, John William, Muriwai. Binnie, Denis Fitzgerald, Tokomaru Bay Costain, Andrew Francis, Gisborne. Cotching, Nigel Mackenzie, Tolaga Bay. Crawford, Jeremiah, GisborneCroon, Leonard Randeil, Gisborne Davis, Ivan. Gisborne. Dymock, John Herbert Wolloeombo. Te Karaka Feasey, Richard Percy, Bartletts Fortnam, Albert, Gisborne. Gledhill, Colin Kenneth, Gisborne Goodall, Ronald, Tolaga Bay. Greaves, Dudley Thomas, Manutuke Hague, Douglas James, Wairoa. Harvey, John Kitchener, Wairoa Horne, Rangiotu. Moanui. Horton, Trevor Charles, Whatatutu. Hurley, Denis Jerome. Gisborne Huston, Sidney, Gisborne. Kerr, George Coutts, Toktimaru Bay. Kemp, Fred Wilson, Puha. Knight, Albert Ernest, Gisborne. Lockwood, John Enoch, Tolaga Bay. McCann, Ronald Ben, Wairoa. McFadyen, Thomas, Gisborne. McCarthy, Patrick, Wairoa. McGaveston, Murray Robert Piers. Wairoa. Murphy, Edward Pax, Gisborne. Parsons, George Henry, Ormond. Neale, George Owen, Wairoa. Newman, M. A., Gisborne. Parsons, Thomas Edward, Nuhaka. Pavicic, Ivan George, Gisborne. Potier, Joffre Charles, Wairoa. Rogers, Max Arnold, Gisborne. Rutherford, Francis Stanley, Gisborne. Sadler, Rex, Gisborne. Seymour, Charles, Whangara. Smith, James Andrew, Gisborne Smyth, Fraser Sturm, Wairoa. Sparkes, Clifford Henry, Tahunga. Taylor, lan McLeod. Gisborne. Thomson, Raymond Rcdvcrs, Waikohu. Tinkler, Albert George, Gisborne. Whitehead, Geoffrey Desmond, Gisborne. Wills, John, Te Karaka. Wyllie, Robert, Gisborne. Simpson, George Alexander Douglas, Wairoa Swinnerton, Alan Lindsay, Gisborne. 19th and 22nd Wellington Rifles, Trentham Allan, lan Campbell, Makaraka. Begg, John Nicol Strachan, Motu. Burne, Leonard Richard, Frasertown. Buscke, Ivan Max, Manutuke. Coleman, Leopold Ronald, Gisborne. Dillon, John Francis, Wairoa. Garnham, John, Wairoa. Goodall, Frederick John, Matawai. Gordon, Henry James, Gisborne, Gudgeon, Walter Edward, Ruatoria. Hall, Frank Alfred, Gisborne. Hall, Sidney Andrew, Gisborne. Herbert, Kenneth Roy, Gisborne.