WAR CASUALTIES

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 76, 10 September 1941, Page 2

WAR CASUALTIES

| NEW ZEALAND SOLDIERS FOUR LISTED AS PRISONERS Wellington, This Day. The deaths of 111 members of the 2nd N.Z.K.F. me reported in a casualty list listed ns‘prisoners of war. The list is as follows: - 1 The following Prisoner of War I Med of i Wounds—Previously Reported Missing, j Mervyn 11.. Gnr. Mrs F. Heath. ' | Hied—Previously Reported Missing | BELLRINGER. Trevor Bdr. Mr F. JT. Bellringer, Box 92. New Plymouth I DOWN, Robert J., Pte. Mr .1. Down. ! I Pnlorus Bridge. Marlborough (father). ' DFAN. Rnv A.. Gnr. Mrs L. A. Dean. 1 Christchurch Rd., Worthington. Sussex. \ ELLIOT, llarolri J., 1./Cpl. Mr H. A. Elliot, f.2 Lonsdale- Cres., Wellington GILLESPIE. John. L/Cpl. Mr J. GillesJ pic. Carolelis. County Antrim. Ireland | HAMILTON, Perev C.. Spr. Mrs M. C. iC Stevens. Kensington Rd.. South Dunedin (mother). HANSEN. Clarence W.. Pte. Mr A W Hansen. Clarence St.. Hamilton (father). ' HIGGINS. Leonard R . Pte. Mr C. M : Higgins. Hamilton (brother), i Johnson Noel I-\. T/Sgt. Mrs M. J. T. (mother). i LEITCH. Kenneth E. Pte. Mr G. Leitch. | llunua Rural Delivery (father), j OGILVY James. Pte. Mrs J Ogilvy. 31 I I N LYONS-PHILP Thomas B. Pte. Mrs A \ | Lvons-Philp. Torbay (mother). POUTU John. Pte Mrs C. Kemp. Run- , ! SADLER U Mcrvvn D. Spr. Mr W. E. D. j Sadler ?4 Svmonds St. Auckland (father) | i White Ivan R Spr Mrs R. White. 20 j j Cleveland Rd. Parnell (rather). Prisoners of War—Previously Reported Missing ! JACKSON. Leo G.. L/Cpl. Mrs E. M F. 1 Jackson. C/o Mrs Pees. Main Western School Hnvwnrds (wife). MUI.HOT J.AND Edear D., L/Cpl. Mr F R Mitlholland. 139 Bligh’s Rd.. Papanui RIDER Dudley 11.. Sgt. Mr A. H. Rider. Turn kina (father). WOOD Ravmond E.. Pte. Mr E. R. Wood. Wainui-o-mata. Lower Hutt (father). MAIL FROM PRISONER IN GREECE I Two letters from her husband. Cor- ■ pornl A McKenzie, bearing the inscripi tion of a German prisoner of war camp j in Greece, were received yesterday by ! Mrs McKenzie, of Lower Hutt. On 28th May he was officially reported missing and subsequently wounded and missing. Mrs McKenzie had received ; no further advice of her husband till j the arrival of his letters, which were dated 6th May and 14th May. and writ--1 ten from “26th General Hospital, I R.A.M.C., British Army, near Athens. Corporal McKenzie reported that he had received a slight wound in the right thigh and was well on the way to recovery. At the time of writing he was in a Greek hospital but expected to be moved later. He said he was doing quite well, but added: “I am awfully i hungry. I’d like some of mum’s cakes right now. Oh for a feed.” Nothing had been excised from the | letters.—P.A.