ROLL OF HONOR.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLIX, Issue 251, 22 October 1915, Page 5

ROLL OF HONOR.

PTCKSONAL NOTES

?ov:-.cant. AY. C. AVakclin. of M.i-.n AVakolin, of P.]oii''^im. wlio is ni-<n--lio(! to th'- Nimv Zr,';l-^;d i!o:id-

at present in the Abbassia Hospital at Cairo, sick. He was on the Peninsula from the day of the first landing, and before his health gave way every other member of the original staff had either been killed, wounded, or disabled through sickness.

Mr B. Mackle, of Kaikoura, has received cable advice from his son, Oor>poral J. A. Mackle, that he was invalided to England suffering from enteric fever, but is now doing well. Word has been received by Mr M. Ching, that""his son, Private Harold Ching, who went to the Dardanelles with the Main Expeditionary Force, is being invalided home, anft will arrive in Dunedin next Tuesday. Private Gavin des. Forges, who is in hospital at Ghezireh, in. a letter to his .brother in Blenheim, mentions that he was struck by a piece of a bomb, which entered his upper jaw, passing through the biuck of his nose and into his right eye. He is in » ward with ten others, all eye cases. The ]>ellet has been extracted from jiis eye. He has received letter* from his relations in New Zealand and England, the- latter having seen his name among the list of wounded. Private dcs Forges expects to be bflek in Blonheim before Christmas.