NEW ZEALAND CASUALTIES

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXIX, Issue LXIX, 19 May 1915, Page 5

NEW ZEALAND CASUALTIES

A FURTHER LIST

WOUNDED MEN IN ENGLISH HOSPITALS. VISITED BY THE HIGH COMMISSIONER. ALL DOING WELL. OFJ-ERS OP ACCOMMODATION IN NEW ZEALAND Tfc» *it WELLINGTON, May 18. - Ahe following is a summary of MISSING. : ! p f ,~ rt Officers. Men. 1 0 Staff Corps 1 o Toial ~~ 2 ~0 . KILLED AND DIED OF WOUNDS. . ~ , Officers. Men. i Auckland H 14 j Wellington ....' 6 13 Canterbury 7 3 Otago ..* o 29 Field Engineers 0 3 Total • 26 .62 WOUNDED. :>-y tt i j. r, „. Officers. Men. Headquarters Staff 1 " 0 Auckland r. 19 343 Wellington 11 . 254 £ ta§<> 16 301 Canterbury \\ 203 Field Artillery 0 9 Divisional Signallers ...... 0 1 Army Medical Corps 0 2 Army Service Corns 0 3 Engineers .*. 2 23 Totals 60 1139 This gives a total of 1289 casualties, from which must be deducted eleven previously reported. KILLED IN ACTION. Auckland. Battalion. Lieut. (late Corporal) S. G. T. Reid. DIED OF WOUNDS. Wellington Battalion. Lieut. H. R. Cowan. Corporal J. Claffev. Priv. R. J. Day." . Priv. W. Elliott. Priv. A. M. Turner. Engineers. Sergt. A. Wallace. WOUNDED. Canterbury Battalion. Priv. W. G. Booker. Priv. G. T. Deakin. Priv. P. Fahey. Priv. F. J. Humphreys. Priv. D. R. McLe'od., Priv. S. Patchett. Priv. A. Paynter. Priv. J. R. Tate. Priv. P. J. Westrupp. Otago Battalion. Priv. W. A. J. Drake. Priv. T. G. Reid. Priv. J. A. Weir Wellington Battalion. ■ Priv. A. H. Beable. Priv. C. Booth. Priv. F. O. Clanman. Priv. T. C. Honkins. Priv. W. Stewart. Sergt.-Major H. Wray. Auckland Battalion. Lieut, (late Sergt.-MaTor) J. W. Fletcher.

WELLINGTON, May 18. The High Commissioner telegraphs under date May 17: — I paid a visit to the Birmingham hospital yesterday, and saw a number of wounded men * belonging to the Expeditionary Force, and was present when others arrived. All were in good heart and cheerful, and were anxious to return to active service. Some hope to be soon convalescent. I was unable to go to the Chiehester Hospital, but Sir Newton Moore saw the men there on my behalf, and reported officially that all wera doing well. The following are in the. Birmingham Hospital: — G. Davis. T. Davis. * J. A. Dick. C. C. Every. A. H. Rowell. H. S. Larkins. G. W. Mills. A. C. Rawbone. W. L. Stephenson. A. C. Stunnell. The following are in the Chichesier Hospital: — T. B. Buchanan. Frank Farquhar. Jas. W. Ferguson. R. J. Kemp. F. Locker. Frederick Meuli. Gerald Morpeth. Patrick O'Connor. R. Scott.^ F. Sinclair. L. M. Watson.

WELLINGTON, May 18. The Hon. A. L. Herclman announced on behalf of the Government at a patriotic meeting to-night, that His Excel? lency the Governor had offered the use of Government House at Auckland for wounded soldier* returning to New Zealand. Other offers of a similar nature received l>y the Government were:--Mr Clms. Izard, of Wellington, the tise of his house at the Upper Hutt; the Hon. H. D. Bell, the use of three houses at Lawry Bay, Wellington; the Hon. R. H. Shades, the use of Elmwood, Papanui road, Christelmroh; Mr J. Buckley, the use of his homestead, Red Castle, near Oamaru. .