NEW ZEALAND'S ROLL OF HONOUR.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 15915, 12 May 1915, Page 8

NEW ZEALAND'S ROLL OF HONOUR.

LIST ,OF 77 ADDITIONAL CASUALTIES RECEIVED.

TOTAL RECORD OF LOSSES IN ACTION NOW 705.

Wellington, May 11.

The thirteenth list of csualties in the New Zealand expeditionary force was issued by the Defence Department to-day. It contains the names of seven men, who have succumbed to wounds received in action, one being a member of the Auckland Battalion, find six members of the Otago Battalion. Four officers have been wounded, and the list of 66 casualties among the non-commissioned officers and men comprises six members of the Auckland Battalion, 16 of the Canterbury Battalion, 37 of the Otago Battalion, five of the Field Engineers, and two of the Field Ambulance. Two of these men are reported to be dangerously ill. The list also shows that one officer and eight men, who have previously been reported as wounded, are also in a dangerous • condition.

The addition of to-day's list increases the total record of casualties in all ranks to 705, comprising 11 officers and 30 non-commissioned officers and men who have been killed in action or died of their wounds,

and 29 officers and 635 men wounded. These losses are confined to the Infantry Brigade, with the exception of one officer of the headquarters staff, and have been shared by the various units as follows:—

DIED OF WOUNDS.

Private B. Buchanan, Otago Infantry Battalion. Next of kin: Mrs. Christens Buchanan, • Fox Street, Avenal, Invercargill (mother). Private George Andrew Boss, Otago Infantry Battalion. Next of kin: John Ross, Warepa, Balclutha (brother).

Private Reginald Peter Sim, Otago Infantry Battalion. Nest of kin Andrew H. Sim, Charlton, Gore (father).

Private Robert Lorrie, Otago .Infantry Battalion. Next of kin: John Lome, Calton Cottage, Selkirk, Scotland. '

Private James Carson barren, Otago Infantry Battalion. Next of kin: Mrs. Jessie Morrison Warren, 14, Buccleugh Street, North-east Valley, Dunedin (mother).

Private Arthur William McQuillan, Auckland Infantry Battalion. Next of kin ""* Mrs. Catherine M. McQuillan, Dominion Road, Mount Eden—late of Huntly (mother). - , Private Robert Milford Wells, Otago Infantry Battalion. Next of kin Mrs. Ethel

Duncan, Glenham, Southland.

Officers. N.C.O.'s and Men. Killed. Wounded. Killed. Wounded Headquarters — 1 — — Auckland Infantry ... 5 11 8 176 Wellington Infantry ... 2 6 3 128 Canterbury Infantry ... 3 5 1 94 Otago Infantry 1 6 16 207 Field Artillery » — — — 6 Field Engineers — — 2 18 Signalling Service — "™ ~" l Field Ambulance — — — 6 II 29 30 635 '