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Free Lance, Volume XVI, Issue 839, 4 August 1916, Page 7

News has been received of the death of the Rev. P. G. Alexander, chaplain -of H.M.S. Hampshire and brother of Mr. E. D. Alexander, of the Wellington Harbour Board staff 1 and Mr. A. M. Alexander, of Lower Hutt. Interesting to note that the Rev. Alexander arrived in Wellington with his parents by the lonic in 1892. He spent seven .years in Newtown, afterwards returning to England with his parents in 1899. He took his degree at St. John's College, Cambridge, in 1908, and went to Bristol the same year when he was ordained. He served his deaconate at Christ. Church. Barton Hill, being ordained priest in 1909. He remained at

Barton Hill until 1910. In 1912 he took up a chaplaincy on H.M.S. Blenheim, from which he was transferred to H.M.S. Falmouth"" and .afterwards to H.M.S. Hampshire, on which he lost his life. At Christ Church, a short memorial service for the late Lord Kitchener, the late Rev. P. G. Alexander, and the- men who perished in the North Sea was conducted by the Rev. D. Marcus Brown (vicar). At the.opening of the service, the choir proceeded up the centre isle followed by the 28th Bristol and 76th Bristol Boy Scouts. At the side of the chancel was hung a laurel wreath bearing the inscription "Jutland," and through this was placed the Union Jack in black streamers, the flag being the original colours borne by the scouts when the late Mr. Alexander was in charge of the Bristol East Division, in which he displayed much interest.

This week'.s casualty lists from "Somewhere in France" include the name of Corporal Wallace Lever, a very fine and manly soldier, who was held in high esteem by his friends in AVellington. He was a member of the Unitarian Church Choir, was possessed of a mellow bass voice, and only enlisted from a strong sense of duty. He came to Wellington several years ago from South Africa, where his mother still lives, and having served through the Boer Campaign, he was acquainted with the grisly side of war, and was under no illusions as to the sacrifices therefore it entailed. Still as a bachelor, lie reckoned it was his duty to obey his / country's call, and he went way with our 6th or 7th Reinforcements. And on Wednesday came the sad news that on July 20 he died of his wounds. Peace to his ashes.