PERSONAL NOTES.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 17935, 31 October 1918, Page 6

PERSONAL NOTES.

Mr and Mrs James Bond, of Ivaikoura. have been advised that their second son, Private Alexander Boyd, had been killed somewhere in France. Private Boyd was thirty-one years of ago and was a member of the TwentyEoventh ltein force men t-s. Ho was ellgaged in the Signalling Corps, and had been commended for his good work. Pie was an excellent riflo shot. Educated at tho Kaikoura Suburban School, he engaged in farming pursuits for some lime. Thereafter he was associated with his eldest brother in sheep faming on the Blue Mountain run, Awatcro County. A younger brother is down with malaria in an eastern hospital. \ I < Tho Rev P. Durward, Lawrence, received news last week that his son, Corporal Peter Calder Durward, M.M., had died from wounds in France. Corporal Dunvard, who was in his twentythird year, was born in Stirlingshire, Scotland, and came to New Zealand with his parents twelve years ago, when the family settled in Lceston, whore they remained for about live years, when Air Durward received a call to the Lawrence Presbyterian Church. Corporal Dunvard received his primary education in the town of Dessny, Scotland, and after coming to New Zealand attended the Southbridge District High School, and later spent two years ns a student at Knox College, Dunedin. Before going to Otago he spent a short time in farming, but relinquished this pursuit with the intention of taking up a profession. Pie enlisted with the Fifth Reinforcements, going direct to Gallipoli. He fell ill before the evacuation, and was scut to England, spending some time in., hospital. He subsequently rejoined his unit in France, and from then until his death had been in practically every battle in which the New Zealanders took part. In September, 1916, at the Somme, he was awarded the Military Medal for valour in tho field. An elder brother. John, who was in Scotland when the war broke out, is with the Imperial Forces in Salonika. Trooper Frank Watson Rudd, news of whose death at Ivnntara Hospital has been received, was the son of Air John Dodsworth Rudd, of Greendale. He was educated at the' Greendale School, afterwards missing through the agricultural course at the Christchurch Technical College. He was for some time a member of the Canterbury Yeomanry Cavalry, and was aged tweutytwo years. The causo of death was malaria and pneumonia. Trooper Rudd was well known and highly respected in the district. A memorial service will be held on Sunday morning. Mrs W. Waites, of Belfast, has been advised that Private J. H. Gates has been admitted to hospital in England suffering from gunshot wound in the left foot. This is the second timo Private Gates has been wounded. Prior to leaving with the Twenty-ninth Reinforcements, lie was employed by Air Timms, engineer. Cable advice has been received by Mr J. IP. King. North Loburn, that his sou, Private W. E. King, is still seriously ill in the New Zealand General Hospital, Codford, suffering from tubercular peritonitis. Mrs Hood, Masonic Hotel, Southbrook, has been advised that her eldest son, Gunner W. H. Hood, who was admitted to hospital in England on October 11, wounded in the neck, has been transferred to tho Convalescent Hospital, Hornchurch., Airs M. A. Giles, 214, Springfield Road. St Albans, has received a cable that nor son. Trooper A. H. Giles, has been admitted to 27tli General Hospital, Cairo, with malarial fever, slight, gjje lias also received a cable that Lance-Corporal S. T. Giles has been removed to England-