WAR PRISONERS

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20636, 16 August 1941, Page 4

WAR PRISONERS

DOMINION FORCES OFFICERS AND MEN FOUR FROM DISTRICT (Ter Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. Forty-seven members of the Mew Zealand Expeditionary Force are announced to be prisoners of war in the latest list of casualties. The Gisborne, East Coast and Wairoa men in the list are: — The International Red Cross report the followin'! soldiers as prisoners of war —previously reported missing:— Butterfield, Capt. Cyril Wilhelm. Wife: Mrs. I. C. Butterfield, North Clyde. Reedy, Second Lieut. Hanara Te Ohaki. Wife: Mrs. R. Reedy, Ruatoria. Geary, Pie. John Alsace. Father: Mr. .1. J. Geary, Gisborne. Paraone, Pte. Tutu. Father: Mr. H. Brown, Te Araroa. Casualties from other parts of the Dominion are as follows, the addresses being those of the next-of-kin:— The court of inquiry presumes this soldier dead—previously reported by unit as presumed dead:— Warren, Srr. William Davenport. Tasmania The court of inquiry presumes this soldier dead—previously reported missing:— Paul, Pte. George Allen, Mangere. MISSING Cameron, Pte. Hector G. A.. Paraparaumu. PRISONERS OK WAR The International Red Cross reports the following soldier as a prisoner of war:— Radford, 2nd Lieut. Henry J.. Auckland. The International Red Cross reports the following soldier to he a prisoner of war—previously reported wounded and missing:— Smith, Gnr. Herbert Earle, Auckland. The International Red Cross reports the following soldiers as prisoners of war—previously reported missing:— Gull, Major Mervyn Ansiey, Christchurch. Beaumont, Capt. George Maurice, Dunedin, lioyce. Capt. Alec Henry. Blenheim. Cowie, Capt. Gordon line, Wellington. Duigan, Capt. Join: Liardet, Auckland. Rollick, Tern./Capt. Coleman, Auckland. Hook, Tom./Capt. Geo. A. E., Hastings. Kissel, Tern./Capt. Leonard M.. Christch'ch. Nolan, Capt. Francis Trevor, Hamilton. Nolan, Tern. Capt. Stanley T., Hamilton. Moore, ,Capt. William Ernest. Palmerston N Rowe, Capt. Harold Aitchison, Nelson. Veale, Capt. Lois Howie, Wellington. Walton, Rev. John William, Patea. Almao, Lieut. Sydney M., Wellington. Budd, Lieut. Henry Symes, Masterton. Clarke, Lieut. ’John Summers, Napier. Gree.i, Lieut. Arthur Thomas Begg, Timaru Mcladoe, Lieut. John Leslie, Dunedin. McKenzie, Lieut. John Bruce, Timaru. Robins, Lieut. Herbert Wm„ Palmerston N. Allison, 2nd/Lieut. Donald Cuthbert, Nelson Boyce, 2nd/Lieut. Arthur H., Wellington. Collins, 2nd./Lieut. Robert J., Wellington. Culhvick, 2nd/Lieut. John C., Kohimnrama. Hunter, 2nd/Lieut. John Paterson, Raglan. Macdonald, 2tul/Lieut. H. J., Whangaruru. Melling, 2nd/Lieut. Samuel, Auckland. Woolley, 2nd/Licut. Peter, Auckland. Hunter, Mr. James Donald IC., Wellington. Ledger wood, Mi’. John Herbert, Dunedin. Melver, lan Broadbent, Auckland. Wright, Mr. Cecil Leonard, Whangarei. Lloyd, Pte. Leonard Robinson, Hastings. McDonald, Pte. Manu L., Wairau Pa. Nicholls, Pte. Edwin Lindsay, Otakeho. Nichols, Pte. James, Hamilton. Kauhina, T/L/Cpl. Arani Rangi, Rotorua.' Robertson, Gar. David James, Wellington. Sutton. Pte. Jack, Owaka.