A FIGHTING FAMILY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 15872, 19 March 1915, Page 4

A FIGHTING FAMILY.

NEW ZEALAND OFFICERS. mBZ [from our own correspondent.] i|^g London, February 2. ■, <y-i Captain C. Garsia, lato of Canterbury, had three sons on' active service at lheg|||| beginning of the Avar'— two in the army, * one in the navy. It will bo remembered that Liflutenaiit Oliver D. M. Garsia,. Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry, W||||| mortally wounded in September in the -;•' • fight near the village of Missy, where on September 13 a brigade of the allies were / driven out by the enemy. Lieutenant o.' -" -, Garsia commanded a company, which lost . heavily, his two subalterns being killed fmkji and he himself wounded, death occurring from the effect of the wounds. Captain C. W. Garsia, of the Hampshiro Regi- j£|f ment, is with his regiment at the front, ' For about two; months after the outbreak* of war ho. was employed as a railway, -~ ,: transport officer at one of the advanced ' redistributing stations. He lost all feg||| kit on the retreat from Mons, but came, through that terrible experience uninjured.' The youngest son, Lieutenant Rupert GarM, who was on board H.M.S. New Zealand, is now on board the Sydney, 4?!3||||| of course, was present at the destruction of the Emden. t .All ■ the; sons were '■ edu-* ~ cacafed.at the Bovs' High School, Christ church, New Zealand. > Vwllll