PERSONAL ITEMS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXIX, Issue LXIX, 3 September 1915, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS.

A Sydney message states that Mr Richard 'i'wop«any, of the Australian Pastoralists' iieview, is dead. 'Trooper E.R.. Armstrong, who was killed in action at the Dardanelles, was the eldest son of Mr J. E. Armstrong, railway traffic manager at Wanganui. Irooper. Armstrong, who was 23 years of age, is the second eon of the family to lay down his life for the Empire. Mr A. McPherson, Government Fields Instructor, who went from Christcnurch ; last year to attend the Panama Exposition, left San Francisco on August 4 on his way eastward through the United is cates. He will return westward through Canada, officially visiting experimental stations on the way. The iate Captain C. E. Clifton, who was killed in action, was several years in Pahiatua in business, and was weil known throughout the district. He had one son in the Dardanelles, and another'! at Dunedin iViiiicary Training College. : His widotv. and the remainder of tne family reside in Pahiatua. I Mr T. B. Salmon, who is accompanied by Mis Salmon, left Hawera tnis morning lor Christchurch, where he is to take up his appointment as i inspector of post offices. A large number of friends were at the station to say good-bye. By the last mail, Mrs Hart, of Car^ terton, received a letter from Major Hart, D.S 0., skating that in July he and about 200 others were receivfeci by command at Buckingham Palace by the King, who personally pinned to thenbreasts the orders which they had been awarded for services in the field. Hid Majesty talked a little and shook hands with each one. ID was an unique gathering, for among the gallant two hundred were representatives of every part of the Empire. i Corjioral William David Kemp, who was killed in action on August 13 at the Dardanelles, was the eldest son of Mr and Mrs David Kemp, or Roto-o-rangi. He wjls born at Waihi, Ha-. wera 23 years ago, and was one of the first to volunteer with i the main expeditionary force. He was with the first New Zealand landing forces at the Dardanelles, and fought for nearly four months. He was slightly wounded once, having the rifle shattered, in his hand, the bullet passing through his cap and grazing his head. He wa« farming with his father at R'oto-"o-rangi up to the date of his departure fpr Trentham. Writing to the Star, Mr Kemp says: "We thought it right to let you know of our boy, \sho fell at the Dardanelles fighting for the good old flag." Mr and Mrs Kemp were farming near Hawera for some years and afterwards at Waverley, before removing to the Waikato.