FALLEN AND WOUNDED

North Otago Times, Volume CVI, Issue 13975, 8 September 1917, Page 3

FALLEN AND WOUNDED

_ PERSONAL NOTES '• KILLED' IN ACTION. Rifleman A. Wilson. 'Rifleman Andrew Wilson (killed in action) was born in Lvttelton in 1596, and was the youngest sou of W. and M. Wilson, of Livingstone street, Linwood. He was educated at the Lvttoltoil Borough and East thristohurch Schools and the West Christchurch District High School, passing the Junior Civil Service examination at the lastnamed school. He was for i over three years on the rai.lway telegraph staff, and at the time of enlisting was in the employ of Messrs Pannell and Co, He enlisted in the Urd Battalion of the New Zealand Rifle Brigade, Signal Division.

Private W. Fleming.

' "-Private William Fleming (killed) 1 , 'the eblest son of Mr and Mrs Fleming, ■ of Hereford street, Christchnreh. He was thirty-two years of age, and came ' to New Zealand several years ago from "Victoria. Until the time of his enlistment with the Fourteenth Rein- . -foreemeiits he was in the employ of Mr ■Sandford, of Greendalc/ He was m member of the local Cricket. /l!_p»l?i holding the position of treasurer •'until lie left on active service. He vras also a member of t"lie Court Richard Stephens, A.0.F., Wing a P.C.R. of that Court. Private Fleming was previously wounded on June 8 th. Private S. Wallace. . Private S. Wallace (killed) was the third son* of Mrs E. Wallace, of Tai v Tapu, and was in his thirty-second , .year. He was a "pupil of the local ..school, and had been for a number -of years in the employment of Captain -Macartney, for whom he acted-as foreman on a great number of contracts, amongst them being the track formation-" for the Haekthorn road tramway line, and the making of flip flat road between Barry's and Duvauchclle bays. | . "The" late Private Wallace had also had considerable experience atWirryworli, : |being %nex'pwt "4n the. iise. of fexplo'>sives. j Having enlisted with the 'iTwenty-thM 'Reinforcements, lie had not-been long.-in France at ;£tho time ol| his death. A brqtjicr, Prih, vHte^T,:*Wttllacej is now in-camp.at }■ Featherston\ and three others ; were | flmori|st to enlist from the : district.

; >, "Sergeant P. R, Boulton, - |:,A . Christqhurclf resident, Mr N. J.« v ißoultdn,, of the New Zealand Shipping ' ICompauy,' has received the following •? ;]ettef'from-an officer in England: Ml 1 •must rtll you. how deeply we regret the /death'"of your son, Sergeant P..-B, % boulton. The last I saw of your son the moping;of; June-7th, in .. ' -tile' 1 ; trenih^l>ef6re : we. : 'went:over; to attack ilessifles. He commanded ono

of the sections of my platoon, T was talking to him just before we went over, and I need hardly say that then, as always, he was quite cheery and confident. At Messines he was missing. As at that stage of the attack there was no difficulty in removing very badly wounded cases, 1 am sure his death must have been almost instantaneous. I left slightly wounded on the same morning, and it is just now. that I have had official information of his deat.li on the 7th. Your son was one of the very lincst men T knew, and as a n.c.o. lie was invaluable. lie iu every way deserved liis commission, and I had hoped very confidently that lie would get it after Messines. lie had a splendid inllueiirc on the nienj and they all liked and respected him greatly. A man wliq 'keeps smiling' at the front is an inspiration not only to his own comrades but to his ollicers, too. The place where he fell would •bo : about, half a mile to the West of Messiues. Where he is buried 1 do not yet kuow. 11 may lie some slight comfort. for yon to know how well he did his duty.".

DIED OF WOUNDS. Private C. B. Ward. "Reported missing, believed to have died of wounds," is the latest annouiWment concerning Private Con. B. Ward, another line stamp of a New Zealander who has, it is,feared, "gone West" (says the Southland Times). The soldier, who was a South Invercargill native, was twenty-three years old and a son of Mr and Mrs C. Ward, of Saturn street, Georgetown. He attended in turn the South and Marist Bros.' schools and was a linotype operator on the Southland Times when he enlisted in the Sixteenth Reinforcements. Incidentally, Mr "Ward, sen., has been with the Times for close on forty years. Private Ward, who'was a keen all-round sportsman, represented Southland in primary schools' Rugby, and later played for the Athletic Club in junior anil senior grades. He was a member, too, of tho Sixteenth Reinforcement" which met Southland i last winter.