ROLL OF HONOUR.
PERSONAL NOTES. Word has been received by Mrs L, Harper, 44, Randolph Street, Woolston, that her second son, Corporal Leonard Alfred (Fred) Harper, M.M., waa wounded fof the second time on October 24, and was transferred to hospital in England on November 3. Corporal Harper left New Zealand as a privata with the Eighth Reinforcements, and has seen a considerable amount of service in France, where he spent his twenty-first birthday last June. He has been a Lewis machine-gun instructor since receiving the Military Medal last March. His elder brother Frank recently returned to New Zealand wounded. Word has been received that SecondLieutenant N. 11. Brown, son of Captain_ G. Brown, Whiteleigh Avenue, Addington, has been slightly wounded and admitted to Brockenhurst Hospital, where he. is progressing well. ' Lieutenant Brown was previously wounded and gassed in September, 1916. General regret was felt in the Woodend district when news was received of the death in action of Private Raymond James Stanton, son of Mr and Mrs J. G. Stanton, of Woodend. Private Stanton enlisted twice, hut was rejected, before he joined the Thirty-fourth Reinforcements. He was cooking in all the military camps, and was a night cook on the transport to England. Prior to enlisting he was engaged in farming with his father. Private Stanton was born and edu< cated at Woodend, and when the sad news came through, the flag at the public school was flown half-mast, out of respect to his memory.
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Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 17946, 13 November 1918, Page 7
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246ROLL OF HONOUR. Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 17946, 13 November 1918, Page 7
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