NEW ZEALAND SOLDIERS

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 17069, 19 January 1916, Page 4

NEW ZEALAND SOLDIERS

NOTES FROM ENGLAND. [From Oriß Correspondent.] LONDON, December 2. Captain Norman Marchant (Timaru), of tlie Canterbury Mounted Rifles, who was invalided to England at the end of October with enteric fever after spending two months at Malta, is now on furlough until December 25. His brother, Captain Eric Marchant, late medical officer of the Garrison Artillery in Wellington, is serving at the No- 1 N.Z. Stationary Hospital in the Balkans as an ophthalmic surgeon. He I was one of the fortunate survivors of llio ill-fated troopship Marquette, I which was torpedoed in. the Mediter--1 ranean recently. Both brothers arc ! now in excellent health. .Air William M'Lcotl, of Auckland, is 1 ::t present serving as a sub-lieutenant in ! the. H.MS. Excellent, the gunnery : ~-hool at Portsmouth. .Mr 11. M'Quarrio, of Auckland, is in , !> Mattery. 92nd Brigade, of the Royal I Field Artillery, with the British Fxi pt:ditionary\ Korce. ! Mr Cecil Leys, sub-editor of (lie i Auckland " Star.'* leaves from Folke- | stone to-day for I'Vanco. where he will ! drive a ear at the front. I .Mr Frederick George Hail .Jones, son lot Sir William Hall Jones, late High I Commissioner in London, is now well 'enough to have left the Now Zealand, ' Military Hospital at AValton-on-Thanies. .Mr Jack .Seabrook and Mr W. Neil Spragg, both of Auckland, who arrived j in England on Sunday night, via. Mari seilles. have come to England) to offer | their services for the Royal Naval Air j Service. Sapper T. Trozise. of Wellington, I hopes to be able to leave the New Zea- ! land Military Hospital this week. I Lieutenant F. A. Ruck, of the Wellington Infantry Regiment, who was severely wounde'd in the hand several months ago, has now recovered and expects to go before the Medical Board this week. Captain R H. Lucas, R.A.M.C., is | attached to the Btlr Royal Fusiliers, I now with the British Expeditionary I Force. .Mr J. Havelock Bamford, of Hastings, and .Air R. A. .Mitchell, of Ric- ! carton, are now at the" Epsom ConvalI c.eent Cam]) at Woodcote Park. I Lieutenant S. G. Trail, R.A.M.C., of Fairlie. is attached to the 105th Brigade, Royal Field Artillery. ' Sap])cr C. Goldstone (Wairoa), of the Divisional Signal Company, and Pri- : vatc Elsley A". Cook, of Mastcrton, are i sufficiently recovered to be sent to the i base at Weymouth.j .Mr David Huttcn. of Dunedin, who : has a commission in v the 35th Gordon i Highlanders, is stayingUt the AYaverlcy . I Intel. Lieutenant James R. Boyd, R.A.M.C., of Southland, and Mrs Boyd, lare in London. • Dr John Ross, of AVairoa. arrived in '•'.•laland on November. 24. to offer his ■ ■• vices for the war. and has been ac- . rented bv the authorities. | Mr AY. S. R. Bloomfield. of Auck- : i.-i'id. has a commission in the Royal I Flying Corps. j Lieutenant IT. B. Hindle, of Auck- : land, is at present at Higham, near j Rochester, in Kent. • SL'ajor H. C. Hurst, of Christchurch ! (Canterbury Mounted Rifles), who was ■ wounded oh- August.- 21 in Gallipoli in I iUe charge on Hill 60, arrived in England on September IS and was" sent to | the Eudsleigh Palace Hospital. Dur- ! iug liis furlough ho visited Wales and ! the southern and northern counties of I Fngland. He passed the Medical Board I nn Thursday and went down to the base at Weymouth last week. 1 Mr Leslie Brett, son of Mr Arthur I Brett and grands'on of Mr Henry Brett, i of Auckland, has obtained a commission in the Royal-Naval Air Service. AVA LTOX-ON-THAM ES. The following New Zealandors were veil enough to leave the New Zealand j ..'nitarv Hospital at Walton-on-Thames ! during'the week:---Hugh Cameron, Tom ! Cutt'sf Norman Low, James John Milne, j Albert Edward Peck and Gordon Haselj man Sislev. The following New Zealanders are at I present, in hospital at Walton-on-I Thames: —Percy Amos' Arnold, Robert i .-..lamson, Victor lan Aspinall, George I William Blunder.. Leslie Ashton Bluett, : Arthur William Bright. George Arthur ' Rail. Harrv Edmund Ball. William ! Ruchan. John Laurence Brownhe, I Harrv Bvrch. George Jeffery Black, ■ Leo Brookes. Ernest Charles Booker, ,' Sydney Bryant, Edward Joseph Callagi ban. 'Norman Chaiupncy, Frederick j Richard Coulson. Alexander Edward j Cooper, Henry "William Chinn, William Robert Chi mi. Thomas Edwin Collins, Frank Mark Collins. Albert Steven Crowther, Frank Ed ward Capon, Sidney Blake Crawford. Charles Frederick Colston, Norman Clark, Charles' Chegwiddon. John Douglas, .lohn William Doinncv. John Bryan Dalton, Peter Augustus do Loree, Robert Barnshaw, Harold Edward Elliott, Charles English-, Harold'Norman Freeman. Francis M inter Furness, "Murdoch Finlayson, Edmund Lincoln Gale, John Goode, Hugh Havthomc. William Stuart HayIcek, William Hamilton. Claude Russell Hill. Ben Howell, Frank Humphries*, Peroival Noel Jainieson. Robert .Noel Johnson, Edward Joseph, Francis Leslie Gordon Jolly, Harold Kenworthy, George William Kerr. Roland George ..nigsland, Clifford Keilar, John Alexander Larkin, Archibald Lange, Jeffery Allan Lash, Dennis Lawlor, Thomas Line, Henrv Rojd Lister, Arthur AYilfretl Lewis. John Lewis Loughnan, .John Theodore Llovd. James Arthur Linton, Milton Morris'on, David M'Burney. Daniel George' M'Carthy, Henry Velsley -Al'Gahey, Kenneth Gordon "MacLeiinan, James Ingham Macarthur, . ..ison Macniillan, Thomas AJatthows, John William Mitchell, George Thompson Miller. Charles Bainton Murray, John Smith Nelson, William Roy Oaklev. Henrv Edward O'Meara. Hugh O'Neill, John Pope, Frank'John Pearse, Gerald Mervyn v Purchas, Daniel Pryde, Kooert Robertson, James Murray Robertson, Leonard Roborts'haw. Alexander Roberts, Frederick AValtcr Read, Alfred Riches, John Subritsky, Cuthbert John Shaw, Edwin James Stiff, Philip David Sinclair, Frank Albert Sbirlev, Robert Simpson, George Albert Snell. John Brenmer Smith. John Digbv Smith. George Joseph Taylor, Hatara Matebe Te Awarau, Tlieodore Trezise, Mark Tuite, Frederick Arthur Victor Tonge, George AValker, Reginald Trevor AVells, Arthur Peter AA'illiams, John Steven AVilson, Harry ' Guthrie Wbishaw. George William Wright and James Victor Wren,