PERSONAL NOTES

Marlborough Express, Volume LI, Issue 155, 3 July 1917, Page 5

PERSONAL NOTES

I*rivate H. J. Avery, of Blenheim, who. was reported wounded a. few days. aeo. wae admitted to the Wal-ion-on>rThames hospital on June 19. stiffening fvota ■-■■■ n: slight gunshot wound in the: left•'shoulder:

Private ■H. M. Kihninster, of Wakefield, was killed in action on •Tune Bth He was a member of the old Waimea Rifles, and of the Rover Football Club, "■>. and took a keen interest in the Wai-itv Debating SoC'ety and Tennis Club. ;

Private G I. •Bridge (killed in notion), eldest son of Mr J. W Bridge, dentist, of: Wellington, was educated at St. Patrick's and Nelson Colleges. . Last year, on learning; that his brother had been wounded fit Gallipot, he closed his surgery, nnd enlisted. An enthusiastic allround athlete, he was a member of the Wellington Football . (Rugby) Club, and a member of the.Wanganui. Cricket Club and Swimming Clnb. ■-...■•

There seems to be little doubt that Flight Sub-Lieutenant Masters, son of Mr A. Masters, Hastings, who was reported missing, has been killed in fiction, an unofficial message being received by his father, from England chat the aeroplane in which-he croesjed the Herman lines had been shot down with fatal results to its occupants. Su^-Lieutenant Masters was ' a theological student in England I when he, enlisted for active service. Mrs j: P. Lucas, formerly of Blenheim bur. now of Christchurch, has received advice that her son, 2nd Lieutenant,R. B. Lucas, who was reported wounded on 13th June, received onH flight injuries, and remained with his unii. , L:eirtenant Lucas, who left New Zealand with the 22nd Reinforcements, Avas on the staff of Dalgety and Co., in Chrisfcchurcii: He left England for France at the beginning of last month, in -company with his brother, 2ndiLieufcenant G. M. Lucas, both being artacJied to the O.interburv Battalion of the new New Zealand Brigade.

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