PERSONAL NOTES.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 17934, 30 October 1918, Page 8

PERSONAL NOTES.

Special referenoa to the death of Sergeant-Major E. E. Orawshaw was mado by Mr C. E. Bevan-Brown, head master of the Ohristchurch Boys' High School, to the assembled school after prayers yesterday morning. Amongst those present were the father, sister, nephew, and small son of the late soldier. Mr Bevan-Brown said that tho newg of Orawshaw's death in action had brought very great grief to him. Crawshaw was one of the very best known of the school's old boys-. He had spent six years at the school, and on leaving had been mado the first Beans scholar, which meant a very great deal indeed. The Deans scholarship and medal had been inaugurated in memory of one of tho school's finest old boys, R. G. Beans, and .although final .details were not completed when the time came for Orawshaw to leave school,, it had been thought that he was so eminently fitted, that ho was elected the first holder of the scholarship. Mr Bevan-Brown went on to speak of tho late Sorgeant-Major Crawshaw'si brilliant athletic career, both at school and after leaving, and continued that Orawshaw had been not only a brilliant athlete, one of tho beat that the school had ever produced, but also a very strong character, and the reverse of a "loafer " in school. He had been loved by masters and boys alike, and he! had always exhibited a fine sense of loyalty to the school and the deepest reverence for its traditions. After leaving school, he had become a great leader amongst the old boys, and a sterling representative of Canterbury on tho cricket and football fields. Incidentally, Mr Bevan-Brown remarked t,hafc the school had lost two Beans scholars, and two very fine fellows and athletes at tho front, in SergeantMajor Orawshaw and the late Lieutenant It. G. Hickmott. Orawshaw had been a fine character, Mr Bevan-Brown proceeded, and he had been glad to take his part in the present great and noble struggle, in which ho had no doubt shown all the pluck and daring that he had exhibited on th© football field. His death was a great loss to the old boys, to the, speaker himself, to the school, and to his family, who would, however, iiavo everlasting reason to bo proud of him. Mr BovanBrowr. concluded that ho was sure that their old senior monitor and captain was now in God's keeping, with the 127 other old boys who had given their lives—-a roll of honour which should inspire all boys to live up to the school motto, "Altiora Poto" ("I seek higher things"). Tho whole school was then called to attention, and the flag was hoisted and the "Last Post" sounded, after which the proceedings were closed with a- verse of tho National Anthem.

Private Alexander P. Harvey, who was recently reported killed in action, was a nephew of Mr Alexander Haryey, who for many years was farming in the Mayfield district. Before enlisting, Private Harvey was following farming pursuits, end was a first-class teamster.

Mrs M. Watkins, 323, Manchester Street, has received a cable, stating that her son, Private S. H. Watkins, Thirty-seventh Reinforcements, has had his left leg amputated. Private Watkins has been transferred to a hospital in England. «

Mr H. Clisly, of Madras Street, has received word that his son, Gunner H. T. Clisly, was admitted to a hospital in Franco on October 14, wounded in the abdomen. He left with the Twenty-ninth Reinforcements. He was educated at tho Waltham School, and served his apprenticeship as a sheet-metal worker with the firm of Taylor and Oakley.