PERSONAL ITEMS.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLIX, Issue 248, 19 October 1915, Page 2

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Two soldiers who were wounded, at Gallipoli-Sergeant E. H. Burnett, ot Dovedale, and Private J. Hunter, ot Takaka—arrived in NeWi on Friday rr.crr.'ing They transhipped from tne Aat-rnius at S3:dney to tiie Maitai. for Wellington. "Sergeant Burnett was struck in the face by a bullet during a night attack on June 3rd, but made a good reef very in hospital at Malta, though bis sight has /-een affected. Private Hunter was injured by a bomb while asleep in a treiich. />*ll the splinters have- not been remo\ed fiom his body, but, save for a limp, he is we'll.' Considerable anxiety has been felt with regard, to Lieutenant Harry Saunders (s^on of Mr 11. Senders, of Nelson), in consequence of the rumor that be has falk-n, which arose after the return of soldiers from the front. Mr Sfunde-rs, in reply to a cabl's of inquiry sent last week, bad been informed that hi* son was in hospital nt Mudros suffering from scarlatina. On Friday, afte.* hearing the statement of a retained soldier, he. and also Mr Wallace Snoelgrass, ns secretary of the Sick and Wounded Scld'ers' Co:nmittee, sent furthe.: inquiries. Sergeant Burnett, who retiirnccl to Nelscn en Friday, w-as attacheel to Lieutenant Saunders's company, and he has no knowledge of Lieutenant Saunders having fallen.

Pi.'vate W. P. Davidson, who died of wciuids at Anzac on 31st August, vas a New Plymouth man His father, an ex-Mayor of the town, formerly held the "rank of general in the Federal Forces during the American Oivil War. Privo.te Davidson served in the South African War, and went an ay with the Mi:in Expeditionary Force ir. the present war. He was vounded three days after the 1.-.emorable landing at Gallipoli, and vas invalided to England. Shortly sifter re timing to the Dardanelles \xv was ropoited wounded on 29th August and biter his.death was announced.

Major Bernard Head, who is reported to have I ten killed in action at the. Dardanelles, had made many friends throughout Xc.v Jiealand, to whom the news of his death will oring a sense of keen peisonal loss (says a Dunedm paper). A man of independent moans—he \x:ts a partner in a leading firm of Lloyd's underwriters —-tnd a thorough sportsman, he took up exploit ion a.s a hobby. He came out to X<".v Zealand originally for the lishin.e; a-> Taupo, and a "visit to Mount Cook gavo him a taste for mountsun-elimbing. After putting in a .stwon there, learning the practical work of ice-craft rind rock-climbing, he returned the following- year. Ho leldly attacked Mount' Aspiring, which se\eial experienced climbers

had been keeping "steadily in view," and achieved tho honor of making the first ascent of this imposing peak. He also accompanied Mr L. M. Earle, A.C., when the latter made the first ascent of Sefton from the West Coast. He distinguished himself m the South African War, and afterwards took an active part in the Territorial movement in England. When in New Zealand he offered his services gratuitously to the Defence Department.