WOUNDED OFFICERS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 15998, 17 August 1915, Page 9

WOUNDED OFFICERS.

NEXT OF KIN GIVEN. PARTICULARS OF INJURIES. Hospital and other lists which have been issued by the Defence Office give further particulars about officers who have been wounded, and whose names have already appeared in casualty lists. Next of kin of officers reported yesterday to be wounded, are as follows :— Chaplain-Major John Alfred Luxford, Otago Infantry Battalion Mrs. J. A. 471, Manchester Street, Christchurch (wife;. Major John Harper Moir, Otago Infantry Battalion—Mrs. L. M. Moir, The Rectory, Mosgiel (wife). Lieutenant Thomas Casserley, Wellington Infantry Battalion—T. Casserley, Riverside Farm, Loburn, Canterbury (father). Lieutenant Frank Locke Hartnell, Wellington Infantry Battalion, severe wound in back—Mrs. A. M. Hartnell, Buller Street, New Plymouth (wife). Lieutenant Leonard Handforth Jardine, Wellington Infantry BattalionJ. F. Jardine, Napier. Lieutenant Frank Kingdon Turnbull, Wellington Infantry Battalion—Mrs. A. E. Turnbull, 39, Campbell Street, Wanganui (mother). Major Wilfred Courtney Sinel, Auckland Infantry Battalion—T. E. Sinel, 5, Queen's W'ha'rf, Auckland. Major Charles Dick, Wellington Mounted Rifles—Miss M. Dick, Kimbolton. The following wounded officers have been admitted to tho 19£h General Hospital, Alexandria :Severe compound fracture ot the right femur, Otago Mounted Regiment. Captain C. J. S. W. Paddon ; severe bayonet wound, right thigh, Canterbury I Mounted Regiment, Lieutenant C. W*. | Free ; severe gunshot wounds, right hip and forearm, Lieutenant-Colonel J. Findlay ; severe gunshot wound, left leg, Wellington Battalion, Lieutenant T. Casserley ; severe shrapnel wound in face, Otago Battalion, Captain R*. W. WiokiusOn • bomb wound in right thigh, W. G. Catto; gunshot wound in chest, severe, Lieutenant F. L. Hunt; gunshot wound in left leg, Canterbury Battalion, R. Caskev.

NEW ZEALAND WOUNDED.

VISITED BY THE KING. HOSPITAL IN ENGLAND. [ex telegraph.—SPEClAL correspondent.] Wellington, Monday. Ihe Prime Minister has received from the High Commissioner the following cablegram — " 1 heir Majesties, the King and Queen, and His Royal Highness, the Prince of Wales, visited the wounded at the New Zealand Hospital this afternoon, and they were greatly delighted with, and expressed appreciation of, tho institution and its surroundings. They spoke to every inmate, and they were afterwards entertained at tea. " The committee has decided to extend the hospital to accommodate 100 more patients, 230 having already applied for admission, and 113 have been admitted. The men are very pleased with the accommodation."