NEW ZEALAND CASUALTIES.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXIX, Issue LXIX, 24 May 1915, Page 5

NEW ZEALAND CASUALTIES.

LIST OF KILLED AND MISSING

WELLINGTON, May 23. Casualties of New Zealanders at the Dardanelles reported to 5 p.m. total 1507, as follow: — KILLED AND DIED OF WOUNDS. Officers. Men. Auckland Battalion .14 22 Wellington Battalion 6 27 Canterbury Battalion ... 7 30 Otago Battalion ... . 4 36 Field Engineers 1 4 Howitzer Battery , 0 1 Army Medical Corps ... 0 1 Total . ... 32 121 MISSING. Officers. Men. Staff Corps 1 0 Canterbury Battalion ... 0 28 Otago Battalion 1 0 Engineers 0 1 Total ..: ..t 2 29 WOUNDED. Officers. Men. Headquarters Staff 2 0 Auckland Infantry 19 367' Wellington Infantry 12 277 Otago Infantry 16 309 . Canterbury Infantry ... 11 255 Field Artillery 1 15 Howitzer Battery 0 2 Engineers 2 27 Divisional Signallers 0 1 Army Medical Corps ... 0 2 Army Service Corps ... 0 . 2 Divisional Train 0 ■ ' 2 Total ... 63 1260 The following fxirther New Zealand casualties at the Dardanelles are reported : —

KILLED IN ACTION. Auckland Mounted Rifles. Captain A. C. Bluck Lieutenant C. James Auckland Battalion. " Priv. M. Huggett (April 28) Priv. E. J. M. Cook (April 28) Priv. F. J. Williams (April 28) Wellington Battalion. Priv. F. F. Annabell (April 27) Oorpl. H. Arnold (April 27) Bugler G. F. M. G. Bissett (April 27) Corpl. W. J. Copeland (May 2) Priv. K. G. Fraser (April 27) Priv. A. H. Graham (May 1) Sergt. G. R. Kendle (April 27) Priv. A. J. Priest (April 27) Priv. J. W. Smith (May 2) Sergt.-Major A. McDonald (April 27) Engineers. Sapper J. D. Keating (May 9): transferred from Otago Battalion from April 25 to May 1.

Canterbury Battalion. i Priv. T£:'%- Barnett Priv. A. C. Bo wen Corpl. W. Brass Priv. T. L. Burn* Priv; L; T. Chapman Priv. R. H. Currie Priv. W. E. Dove Priv. R. Feldwick Priv. A. R. Fellowes Priy. W. Garforth Priv. A. G. Garland Priv. G. T. Hayes Priv. A. B. Highsted Priv. R. C. Mackie Priy. W. D.Millar Priv. A. F. Mclntyre Priv. O. M. Norris Priv. H. F. Pink Priv. H. J. Radcliffe Priv. F. L. Sapsford Priv. J. A. Scott . Priv. J. L. Scoular », Corpl. E. Hawke DIED OF WOUNDS. # Auckland Mounted Rifles. Lieut. P. Logan Otago Battalion.

Priv. T. R. Carson REPORTED MISSING. (From April 25 to May 3.) - Canterbury Battalion. Priv. C. Ayre Priv. A. D. Bourk Priv. G. S. Campbell Priv. H. M. Campbell Priv. A. Cogle Priv. L. N. Cheyne Sergt. A. Currie Priv. A. A. Foots Priv. J. Fraser Priv. R F. Gudgeon, Priy. W. J. Halket* Priv. W. Kappely xPriv^ J. A; Kjaer Priv. H. Marr i Priv. C J. Milne ' Priv. J. R. Moore REPORTED MISSING. (From April 25 to May 3;> *. Canterbury Battalion. Pnv. T. Moriarty Priv. G. G. Porter Priy. C. E. Scott Priv. N. R. Sim* ; -. 'Sergt. T. H. Stevens Priv. R. B. Turne*Priy. R. E. Watknis Priv. F. G. -Kates WOUNDED AND MISSING. Canterbury* Battalion. Sergt. C. F. MacMullen Sergt. E. L. Robins Priv. L. H. Parson DANGEROUSLY ILL. Artillery. Driver G. W. Murch (transferred from Wellington Battalion). ENGINEERS MISSING. Sapper E. H. Reid (transferred from Canterbury Battalion). \ WOUNDED. Divisional Headquarters. Colonel E. W. C. Chaytor. Canterbury Battalion. Priv. J. Anderson Priv. H. D. Cooksley Priv. S. .Collins Priv. W. J. CunninghamPriv. G." Davis Priv. E. Gutliriex Lance-Sergt. AY. A. Hamilton Priy. A. J. Hunt Sergt. E. A. Ingram Lance-Corpl. S. F. Johnson Priv. G. T. Long Priv. G. F. Maber Priv. T. J. S. Machray Priv. W. R. Marshall Priv. T. J. Mailing Priv. R. F. Walsh. Priy. J. R. Morgan Ctago Battalion. . CFrom May 2to Mav^3.) Priv. T. Gray w Priv. L. H. Latimer Priv. A. Mules Wellington Battalion. Corpl. G. A. A. Barton Priv. N. Bell Priv. A. E. Brooker Priv. E. Hunt Priv. N. A. Hopke Priv. G. M. Lloyd Priv. R. Moynihan Priv. G. F. Nyhane Priv. E. J. CanPriv. H. J. Muir Priv. G. A. O'Shea Corpl. H. L. Walden FIELD ENGINEERS. Sapper P. Ellis (transferred from Auckland Battalion). * j Sapper J. W. Harland (transferred from Canterbury Battalion). Auckland Mounted Rifles. Trooper R. J. H. Millar. ' •!

The casualty list received last night contains the names of two New Plymouth in«n killed in action on May 2. One is Corporal W. J. Copeland, who was for some time employed at J. C. Spedding and Co.'s New Plymouth branch, and the other, Private J. W. Smith, of Messrs BorthwiekJs staff, Waitara.

Lieutenant Paine, of the Engineers, who was killed in action in the Dardanelles, was twenty-four years of age, and was a native of. Auckland.

Lieutenant Richard Ewen Egglestone, who is reported as missing, is a native of Otago, and was born at Lawrence on July 6, 1889. He js a telegraphist in civil life, and was single.

Private Henry Peacock, of the Canterbury Battalion, reported killed in action, was a blacksmith eniployed by the Westport Coal Company. Corporal Kibblewhite, reported killed was formerly a draper's assistant in the employ of Messrs Magnus Manson, of Rotor.ua. . Lieutenant David John Albert Lyttle, who has been '-reported from the front as missing, was born at Waikaia on January 28, 1888, and was a school teaelier formerly in the employ of the Southland Education Board.

Captain A. V. Spedding. of the Otago Battalion, who is reported as killed, in action, was a son of Mr D. M. Speddino;, a Dwnedin auctioneer.-

Private Frederick Smith, reported as killed, was a laborer, formerly in the enrnloy of Mr P. McCann, of Dumediu.

Major R. Price, who is reported as killed in the Dardanelles fighting, was o^e of the most nopnlar and efficient officers of the 4+h (Otago) Reeiment. Prior to leaving for the front, he was p'noloyed in the Dunedin Public Trust Office.