SOLSDIERS’ DEATHS

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 20862, 14 August 1942, Page 2

SOLSDIERS’ DEATHS

N.Z.EiF. CASUALTIES V\\-\ j ‘ */ ■ '■'% *v 29 MEN WOUNDED TWO FROM GISBORNE (P.A.) WELLINGTON, this clay. The names ol two Gisborne district soldiers who have been wounded appear.. .in- the - .latest list--—of •N.Z.E.F. casualties. “J .They' are:— Wounded Mitchell, 2nd/Lieut.' Don. Mother: Mrs. E. Mitchell, Nuhaka. Mulligan, Pte.iWilliam Joseph. Mother: Mrs. M. Mulligan, Tokomaru Bay. Casualties'drOnY other parts of the Dominion are as follows, the addresses being those of the next-of-kin:— DIED OF WOUNDS Aupouri, Pte.Herai Hemara", Reporoa. DIED or \SICKNESfJ Dassler, Driver Basil Rudolph, Waipnw.i. • u FRISONERS-OT-WAR PREVIOUSLY 1 Ji,v - REPORTED MISSING MacMillan, Lieut. : Alister" 8., Ashburton. Ajtri", d/Lt.' John, Upper Hutt. PRISONERS-OR-WAR PREVIOUSLY REPORTED MISSING, BELIEVED PRISONERS OF WAR. Hanton,!"3Sfa'jor" Sydney,"" Wanganui. Phillips, ja/it. John .Kennedy, Napier. WOUNDED. Armstrong, ,Pte. Ronald Steven, Ruawni. Bedford, Btu. Earl Shear, Wellington.' (Boytles; Gunner Thomas Scott, 'Pukehiki. Doherty, Pte, Esmonde -Hugh, Masterton. Grassam, Gunner A. J. S., CliristchurclU Httslop, Gunner Leslie H., .Christchureli. Horne, Driver Graham It., Coromandel, Htuit, Pte.," Robert/Pyrcival, Ijuggatc. King, oUhneKNorinah Robert, Gore. Lane, Pte. Ralph Raymond, Ocnhuhu. MeKeii' -Gußner -HarVv CV; Auckland. iltjLfan.lTrooper Ronald Win.; Dunedin. Martin, Pte. John Neville, Auckland. -MalUysan,; E. - R. t /Dunedin. JLengi l l ,- -S /rruill.- Noel; G., .Greymouth. j 'Murdticli, Khiindnllnh. Newby, Gunner* John" Alfred, Auckland. Pavey, Gunner ’Leonard 0., Marnetai. Poa, Pri. .Benjamin, Tinopai. Potter, Driver -Eric Prank, Waipu. Quclcli, iSergt. BertrandjAlfred, Mosgiel. Ramsay', . S/man. It. J. N.! Greymouth. Rayner, Gunner John Fred., Pukemiro. Sawers, Sergt. Alexander C., Auckland. Thompson, Ptdv'Gebrgfe,' WellingTdn. ‘ ■Thomson, Sexfit- Raymond F„ .Dunedin. Wni)is,;/Bdr. E. R./G., /Wellington. PREVIOUSLY REPORTED MISSINGREPORTED NOT .MISSING, BUT WOUNDED O’Connor, Pte. A. P. B„ Dannevirke.

Private Colin F. Sparksman, who is reported in a recent casualty list as having been killed in action, was the eldest son of Mr.- and Mrs. Bert Sparksman, of Twyford. Born in the Twyford’disfrict *27" years ago, he later took" up farming and-for several' years was stationed at Ruatoria. •