HELPING THE EMPIRE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15767, 16 November 1914, Page 4

HELPING THE EMPIRE.

NEW ZEALANDERS' PART. OFFERS OF SERVICE. [rnoM otto own correspondent.] London, October 9. Major G. S. Richardson, New Zealand's representative at the War Office, is with the Field Force in France. Brigadier-General R. H. Davies, C.8., who was invalided Home from France, has gone to Cornwall to recuperate. Major J. K. Cochrane is gazetted staffofficer, 2nd grade. Second-Lieutenant D. K. Cameron is gazetted to King Edward's Horse, Cavalry Division. Mr. J. A. B. Hellaby (Auckland) is in training at St. Mary's Barracks, Chatham, for the new expeditionary force. He is acting-sergeant of the Royal Engineers. Mr. Anthony F. Wilding (Christchurch) has been granted a temporary commission as hon. second lieutenant Royal Marines, and appointed to the Victory, additional, for Royal Naval Division. He is going to France. W. B. Rhodes Rhodes-Moorhouse, second lieutenant (on probation), has been confirmed in his rank in the Royal Flying Corps, Military Wing. G. D. Giles, lieutenant, Suffolk Hussars Yeomanry, is gazetted captain T.F. Reserve. The following are gazetted to the R.A.M.C..:—R. Hay, M.B. ;F. V. BevanBrown (Christchurch), P. J'. Corcoran, M.B. ; W. McCombie, M.B. ; J. R. Caldwell, M.8.; Eric Francis Wallace -Mackenzie, M.B. Captain T. E. Esteourt, Royal Scots Greys, is among the missing. He was in New Zealand as A.D.C. to Lord Islington, and it was from Government House, Wellington, that his marriage to Miss A. E. Anson, youngest daughter of the late Mr. F. A. Anson, of Akaroa, took place. Fleet-Paymaster Henry de L'ourcy Ward, R.N., who was lost in H.M.S. Cressy, was the second son of the late Commander H. P. Ward, R.N., and Mrs. Ward. He was 53 years of age, and lived at Gillingham, Kent. Mr?. Ward survives her husband. There are friends in New Zealand who will read with regret the name of Fleet-Paymaster Ward in the list of drowned. Mr. Roy Munro, only son of Mr. G. S. Munro (formerly of New Zealand), has enlisted as a private in the Ist, King's

Liverpool, Regiment. He has been in barracks at Prescot, Lancashire, for six weeks, and hopes to get to the front shortly.

Nurse Aitken (Christchurch) has joined the Red Cross Society, and expects to go to the front at once.

Mr. Reginald H. Donovan, Christchurch, enlisted with the Life Guards, and is at the front.

Mr._ William Guthrie Salmond, son of the New Zealand Solicitor-General, who got through from Italy after the war started, has enlisted in "the 21bt Lancers.

Gunner James 0. Willis., who was on board 11.M.5. New Zealand when she was in the Dominion, is now gunner of the torpedo boat destroyer Goshawk, which was in the brilliant naval achievement off Heligoland. R. Rooaey, Dunedin, is a private in the 9th Suffolk Regiment, at present stationed at Shoreham, Sussex.

Mr. Arthur Richardson, youngest son of Mr. Mrs- F. C. Richardson, late of Auckland, joined the Royal Naval Re serve. He was sent from Walmer with the First Brigade to the defence of Antwerp, and was one of the 2000 who had to surrender >n Holland. News has been received from him from Dordrecht that he is safe. These men got cut off from the main body and were driven back. Robert "Fldred Bevan-Brown, 0.T.C.. is gazetted second lieutenant in an infantryregiment. He is a student at King's College. Cambridge, and belongs to Christchurch.

The obituary list from the front contains the name of Lieut. Oliver Dunham Melville Garsia. of the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry. He was reported wounded on September 23, and his death was announced three days later. Lieut. Garsia had been with the regiment since May, 1905. CHristchurch friends of the family will learn the news with great regret. Major M. M. Gardiner, Royal New Zealand Artillery, is gazetted" brigademajor.

Louis C. Beruaochi has been appointed lieutenant in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, and Arthur Waldeue St. Clair a sublieutenant.

Reginald Warren Chetham-Strode is gazetted second lieutenant on probation of the Coldstream Guards (infantry). Ho belongs to the O.T.C. "H. J. T." Walker, of the Royal Warwickshire Regiment was reported missing in September. A few days ago "H G. J." Walker, of the same regiment, was reported as having been found and having rejoined the regiment. Evidently the soldier referred to is H. J. I. Walker, of Auckland,, who joined tho Royal Warwickshires in 1911.