MEN WHO HAVE FALLEN.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16040, 5 October 1915, Page 9

MEN WHO HAVE FALLEN.

PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS. SERGEANT D. McL. McDONALD. Sergeant Douglas McLean McDonald, Canterbury Mounted Rifles, killed in action, was the eldest son of Mr. Hugh McDonald, of C&stlecliff, and was born in Hawke'e Bay in 1882. He was educated at the Wanganui High School. After passing his Civil Service examination he joined the Survey Department, and was afterwards appointed assistant - Crown lands' ranger for North Canterbury. In 1913 he was appointed Crown lands ranger at Ashburton. Sergeant McDonald, at the age of 19, took part in the South African war, returning from that campaign with two medals and three bars and the rank of colour-sergeant. SERGEANT C. L. DAWES. Sergeant Charles Lynleigh Dawes, Auckland Mounted Rifles, reported missing on August 28, was born in Auckland 26 years ago. After attending the Reresford Street school, he entered his father's business in Ponsonby and in Mount Eden, and was thus engaged when he enlisted. He volunteered for active service in December, and, though he had had no previous military training, so thoroughly did he enter into the work that he speedily .rose to the rank of sergeant. He was retained on the instruction staff at Trentham until the departure of the fourth reinforcements on August 14. Sergeant Dawes took a keen interest in hockey and sailing. CORP. GREVTLLE GARLAND. Corporal Greville Garland, 4th~ Waikato, Mounted Rifles, who was recently wounded in the left shoulder, has been invalided home to New Zealand, and not to England, as was stated yesterday. He is a son of Mr. W. O Garland, of Remuera. SAPPER E. G. ROUNTREE. Mr. S. G. Rount:-c?, manager of the Auckland Savings Bank, yesterday received the following cablegram from his son, Sapper Edward Gilbert Rountree:—" Back in England, resting —not wounded." , Sapper Rountree is the youngest son of Mr. Rountree, and enlisted with the British section of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force. Prior to the outbreak of war he was employed in the Inland Revenue Office. While in England he is staying with his brother, Mr. Harry Rountree.

SERGEANT L. A. BURNS. Sergeant Leslie A. Burns, Auckland Infantry Battalion, who was reported dangerously ill on September 18, and, according to a cablegram received on September 29. is "still dangerously ill," was a aiember of the reporting staff of the Herald when he enlisted with the fifth reinforcements. He is a Christchurch boy, his parents being Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Bums, of Hetherington, Ward Street, Addington. Sergeant Burns received his education at the Addington school, Christ's College, and Canterbury College. He was a prominent footballer while at college and, later, in senior grade football in Christchurch.