ROLL OF HONOUR.
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[Per Frbss Association.] WELLINGTON, August 31. The following list of casualties was issued fo-day:— KILLED IN ACTION. Previously reported wounded and missing, now reported killed in action : (August 9.) M* Car thy, Francis John, sergeant (Mi's W. McCarthy, Williamson Street, Cambridge, wife). Ryan, Rowan, trooper (Mrs Wrigley, Stockport, England). DIED OF WOUNDS. (August 5.) Sutton, R., lance-corporal (Thomas Sutton, Tinwald, Canterbury, father). DIED AT SEA. i Legg, B. W., sergeant (Walter Legg, Tudor Road, Pahiatua, father). WOUNDED. (August 6.) Fraser, J. D., sergeant (Hugh Fraser, Komako, Raumai). (August 12.) Western, R. J., corporal (Mrs Radclilfe, Richmond Brook, Marlborough). SICK AND WOUNDED. HOSPITAL AND PROGRESS REPORT. Seriously ill-—Private L. R. Gibb. Now out of danger—Trooper T. Searle. Admitted to hospital soriously ill— Driver J. Johansen. Dangerously ill from wounds—Private w. F. Southam. Now seriously ill—Private E. A. Heath. Dangerously ill—Private J. Hampson. N6t yet diagnosed—Private J. O'Connor. Proviously reported out of danger, now dangerously ill—Rifleman A. C. Lane. Now out of danger—Private J. Hutchinson, Private D. Miller. Now dangerously ill—Trooper O. Jones. Seriously ill—Trooper E. L. Roberts. AUSTRALIAN FORCES. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received August 81, 7.30 p.m.) SYDNEY, August 31. Lists No. 202 and 203 include tho following:— Wounded —Lieutenant N. S. Boyle, Sergeants M. Patterson and P. C. lothill, Corporal R. King, Lance-Corpor-als J. Nagel and F. W. Clark, Privates J. M’Gregor, G. H. M’Cormsh. G. Webb, N. D. Wassuoy, F. Halo and A H. M’Lear. Seriously ill—Private AY. Scott Duuscott. . n Convalescent —Private J. M. Lodyre. PERSONAL NOTES. . Nows has been received in 'Wellington that Second-Lieutenant Sidney O’Carrol Smith v as. killed m action on tho Somme on August 25. Lieutenant'Smith, who was educated at the Terraco School, Wellington, and >\ellington College, enlisted in August, 1914, in the Third Brigade, Australian Expeditionary Force, and was present at the landing on Gallipoli, where lie was promoted sergeant. He was invalided to England in September, 1915, and there he obtained a commission in the Rifle Brigade in which he had been serving in France since last May. nis mother, Mrs Henry Smith, is at present in England.
Captain Keith Heritage, who, states a Press Association message from byjney, was killed in France, was about thirty-two years of age and a native of Sydney, where he was traffic manager for the Union Steam Smp Company. He and his brother enlisted m the New Guinea Expeditionary Force, and his brother (Major Heritage) is thought to be still in New Guinea. In the New Guinea Force, deceased was a lieutenant of the Transport Coips. Captain Heritage was one of the Australian eight which proved so successful at the Henley Regatta in 1913. Private news has been received that Private Reginald Kenneth Brosnan, who left with the Main Body and was wounded on Juno 7, 1915, at the Dardanelles, and spent ten months in hospital, has again joined the forces m France. His brother, Lance-Corporal Alexander M’lver Brosnan, who also left with the Main Body and served at the Dardanelles and in France, is now in England suffering from nervous breakdown.
Mr D. Moore, of tho Tenruka gas works, has received a cable message from his son, Lance-Corporal L. Moore stating that he is doing well. Lance-Corporal Moore was wounded, and is in hospital in England.
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Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 17262, 1 September 1916, Page 8
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547ROLL OF HONOUR. Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 17262, 1 September 1916, Page 8
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