ON ACTIVE SERVICE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16020, 11 September 1915, Page 4

ON ACTIVE SERVICE.

WORK OF AUCKLANDERS. [FROM OUR OWN COBItESrOXDEXT.] London, August 4. Lieutenant G. S. Bogle, Royal Engi- | neers, of Whangarei, has for the last three mouths been at the Engineer Reserve Depot at Newark, near Nottingham, training engineer recruits. Ho came through to London a few days ago and boarded the Franconia, hound for an unknown destination in the East — mably the Dardanelles. Miss K. Mair, of Auckland, has for the present given up her art studies. She was lately at Bunhey studying under Miss Lucy Kemp-Welch for a course of Red Cross instruction. She expects to go to a war hospital in North London as probationer almost immediately. Mr. E. R. Lean-, of Auckland, who went to Samoa with the first Expeditionary Force and came Home last month to enter tho British Army, has received his commission as lieutenant in the 3rd battalion.JJiQ i r arks mid Lancaster Regiment. Captain D. Barnett, of Auckland, Northumberland Fusiliers, is stationed' at Woolsington Park Camp, Neweastle-on-Tyne. As a reservist ho was called up in New Zealand in August of last year, and subsequently sailed with a number of other reservists by the Corinthic. Reaching England he first rejoined his old corps—the R.A.M.C. Soon after he was recommended by his colonel for a commission. He was gazetted lieutenant in the- Northumberland Fusiliers and soon after received promotion to the rank of captain. At present Captain Barnett is helping to prepare a service battalion for the front, and he hopes to leave shortly. Mrs. Barnett is still"at Rawhiti. and her husband will return to New Zealand at tho close of the war. He would like, if possible, to obtain a transfer to the New Zealand forces.

Dr. A. Sandston, of New Zealand, is hoping to obtain a commission "in the R.A.M.C. He travelled to England by way of New York, accompanied by Mrs. and Miss Sandston.