PERSONAL.

Northern Advocate, 27 July 1917, Page 2

PERSONAL.

D. Patterson, Whangarei, W. Smith, Whangarei, S. H. Norman, Kiripaka; and J. Taylor, Whangape have now been removed from the dangerously ill list.

The conditions of the following men are not reported as severe:—S. E: Butland, Rawene; A. J. Cherrie, Hikurangi; F. V. Copedo, Kaipara; LanceCorpl. J. A. Tims, Whangarei; J. N. Young, Whangarei.

The latest hospital progress report shows that Lance-Corpl. J. Hotere has been transferred from the seriously ill section to the list of severe cases. A. H. Baker, Whangarei; and J. Neale, Whaugarei, are reported as severe cases; P. Pringle, Bay of Islands is still given as dangerously ill, as also is P. Heath (North Auckland.)

Private Athol (Jack) Bisset, son of Mr and Mrs J. Bisset, of Opuawhanga, who was wounded on June 23 and admitted to the Brockenhurst Hospital on June 27 with gunshot wounds in the left leg and chest, left with the 26th Reinforcements. He was born and education at Opuawhanga, and prior to leaving for the front was engaged i;i fanning and traction work.

Sergeant Ernest Hawkes, New Zea'snd Bifle Brigade, whose name appears amongst those mentioned in deapatches by Sir Douglas Haig, is the socond son of Mr J. H. Hawkes, of Auckland, late of Wbangarei. Sergeant Hawkes lived for some time in Whangarei and before enlisting was an architect in Wellington. His brother, Corpl. G. Hawkes, of Onerahi, is at present in camp at Trentham.

Writing from No. 7 General Hospital, France, on June 9th, to Ms mother in Whangarei, Private Ivan Pearson, relates that his injuries were caused by portion of a bursting "whiz-bang" striking him in the throat and remaining there, just as he reached the German front line in the memorable New Zealand dash on June 7. One of his shoulders was also hurt, but the injuries, he was pleased to say, were not very bad, and he hoped to get on all right when the obstruction was removed from his throat by an operation. The charge from the trenches was made at 3.10 a.m., and the noise of the guns was so terriffic that it was impossible to hear the nearest man speaking, though he might be only a foot away.