ON ACTIVE SERVICE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 15932, 1 June 1915, Page 10

ON ACTIVE SERVICE.

NEW ZEALAND VOLUNTEERS.

WORK AMONG WOUNDED. [PBOM OCR OWN' COHBESrOS'DE.VT.] Lovnov, April 25. It was only in February that Mr. W. J. Clachan, of Wellington, was gazetted a second lieutenant in '.he Middlesex Reg; ment. To-day his name appears in the lit of wounded, under date April 18. Kmdently this casualty occurred in the des perate fighting at Hill 60. an action which is already being called "the new Ypref "' Hill 60 is not far from Ypres. and the fighting in the German counter-attacks r, recover the position has been of a nu.-; desperate and bloody character. Mi. Clachan was a second lieutenant in :i.» boy scouts in Wellington. His father was formerly a member of the Londui. So . tish, which lias won considerable distiii ■ tion in the war. Miss May Palmer, of Wellington, wi-o has fftn a good deal of nursing, particularly in the Balkans, is now attached to a French military hospital at Mentone. Until a few weeks ago she was in a mill tary hospital at Marseilles, and now «h, is in the thick of the first, few weeks of » new one. Before they had got well sets]' i down they received i rush of patients from the new spring campaign. The Legion of Frontiersmen. A letter has just been pc'-ved m--i Sergeant R. B. Delabere, formerly .-' Christchurch, who is ou his way 'In at unknown region" in the transport Eurah Mr. Delabere ei.listed in the Legion if Frontiersmen when the war broke ~ut. end that body w?s socn afterwards coi verted into the 25th Battalion, the Roy! Fusiliers, and given in charge of ticfamous scout, Colonel Driscoll. They am ! famous scout, Colonel Driscoll. They air now on the way to East Africa as infae try. Sergeant Delabere says the 25th are a fine body of men, fully equipped and splendidly organised, and they are full ,-f spirits now they are leaving the English climate behind. One of his comrades is a man who was in a good position in New Zealand when war broke out. Ho st once booked through to Marseilles by the, Orient line and joined the Foreign Legion, with whom he was very soon in the trenches. His companions were men "f all nationalities. Mr. M. B. C- Williams, formerly of Auckland, is now a private in the 22nd reserve battery the Royal Artillery, stationed at Woolwich. Captain John Chauon Bassett, E.G.A., is a New Zealander, his family having lived at Remuera until 15 years ago. Since the outbreak of war he has been at , Tynemouth, but he expects to go to the , front very soon with the siege artillery. i Captain Bassett was married quietly at i St. Mary of the Angels, Bayswater. on , April 10, to Miss Mary Theresa. Ford, ; vounger daughter of Mr. and Mrs. F. J. ,'Ford, of 20, Pembridge .Square. Captain J. C. Bassett has a brother, Captain T. . P. Bassett, Royal Engineers, who is now serving with the sappers and miners on . the Suez Canal. He came from India • with his regiment. ; Helping Bed Orors Work. Mr. and Mrs. J. Mowbray Tripp, of Silverton, arrived from New Zealand a short time ago. Mr. Tripp is leaving immediately <bi Franc* to drive a touring car which he has giveu for the use of the British Red Cross; he has signed on for six months. Mrs. Tripp goes to Devonshire House every morning to help wit'< secretarial work for the voluntary aid detachment of the Red Cross. In th afternoons she attends lectures in the liopH of qualifying for the St. John Ambulance , medall ; 'n, when she will enter one of [ the r.ew militi..-y hospitals as a. proba- ■ tioner. Second-lieutenant W. B. R. Rhodesi Moorhouse, Royal Firing Corps, is mow ■ at tho front. Nurse Edith Fairchild, late of Welling , ton, who was for a time at a base hospital i in Boulogne, is now attached to one of the . ambulance trains bringing wounded ; from the field hospitals in France. A New Zealander attached to the ; R.A.M.C. is Mr. H. 0. Wallace. He is ' at present near JNicwcastle-on-Tyno. Mr. F. C. Bechend, of Auckland, who 1 has been in London for several years Us just joined the Royal Field Artillery as driver. I He expects to be drafted to Norbury for . awhile. > Dr. H. D. Robertson, of Wellington, ' has • obtained a commission in the • R.A.M.C., and is now stationed at Delhi > Barracks, Tidwortb. Lieutenant W. H. D. Bell, of Wellb ington, and other New Zealaudcn serving 1 in King Edward's Horse, an, hoping ' shortly to proceed to the funt. This 1 regiment is now attached to the South " Midland division. > Lieutenant Ronald Gray, of Wellingtor, 3 who is on active service with the R.F.A f at the front, is attached to the 39th Bat--5 tcry, 19th Brigade, 27th Division. i War Contingent Association. i Lord Plunket has recovered from his - recent indisposition, and is now back in London attending to the work of the New Zealand War Contingent Association. Miss Annie Tbombe, of Dunedin, will probablv be the matron of the London Convalescent '. Home for New Zealanders at Lee, while ' Mrs. Palmer, of Wellington, will be asked , to act as matron of the hospital at, Brighton, which is to be established in the s residence lent by Mr. Knight. At the ) request of General Gadley, the association J has promised to provide the necessary bedding for 30 beds in the convalescent 3 home now being started in Egypt. Gene- ' ral Godley als.'. ask.i tie association to forward him a stock of woollen comfort?, ' such as socks and body belts. This has 3 been done, with the exception of a sufficient number to equip the convalescent '. home f. Lee. The New Zealand Govern- , ment 'ias promised the association a large . quantity of wool, on the understanding , that li finds the labour to make socks for the troops. " Mr. John Grace, surgern, of Welbeck • Street, has generously offered to treat at his residence any wounded New Zca'uid ' soldiers.