ROLL OF HONOUR.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16338, 19 September 1916, Page 9

ROLL OF HONOUR.

DNE PRISONER OF WAR. FOUR SOLDIERS WOUNDED. The 406 th casualty list issued by trie Defence Department was circulated by the Press Association yesterday. It gives, particulars of five casualties. One man previously reported wounded and missing is now reported wounded, believed to bo prisoner of war. One officer and three men are reported wounded and admitted to hospital. Details are as follows:— Previously reported wounded and missing, now reported wounded, believed to be prisoner of war, August 9, reported as result of finding of court of inquiry:— James Moore—Mrs. J. Kennedy, Moorehouse Avenue, Christchurch (sister). Wounded and admitted to hospital:— Jieslie Marks Hair, September 9—James Hair, Nelson (father). Joseph Henry McDougall September 17— Lieutenant A. McDougall. Roslyn (father). Samuel Joyce Canavon, September 7-Mr's. J. Canavon, Kaiapoi. Francis Harloe Thompson, September 4— A. 11. Thompson, Talfourd Street, Sydenham, Christchurch (father), OFFICERS WHO HAVE FALLEN LIEUTENANT E. R. LEARY. [FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT-] LONDON, August 15. Lieutenant E. R. Leary was a member of the first expedition to Samoa. He came on to London in July last jear to enter the British service. He got his commission the same month, and was recently seconded for machine-gun service. He died pf wounds received in the recent fighting.

CAPTAIN T. CAMPBELL. The death is reported to-day, unofficially, as having occurred on August 3, of Captain Thomas Campbell, as the result of wounds received in the recent fighting. Captain Campbell was the son of Mr. Neil S. Campbell, well-known in Wellington and the Waikato. He was born in Ceylon in 1886, and was educated at the Lycee Michelet Yarves, Paris, at Dulwich College, and at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich. In his college days he made his mark in sports, for while at Dulwich he won the Fleming Bowl for fencing in two successive years; he was in the gymnastic eight and the Rugby fifteen. Later, at Woolwich, he was in the gymnastic eight against Sandhurst, and to his credit stood the highest number of marks in the Royal Military Academy gymnastic competition. Another dual success was Captain Campbell's possession of the Grand Concours medal for French. His intimate knowledge of this language made him a very useful officer, and he held his certificate as French interpreter. Deciding to make the army his profession he obtained his commission in 1905. and was promoted captain in 1914. He leaves a widow and two daughters. SECOND-LIEUT. J. N. RITCHIE. Second-Lieut- John Nevill Ritchie (killed 'on April 22, previously reported missing), was the third son of the late Mr. J. M. Ritchie, of Balvraid, Dunedin, and of Mrs. Ritchie. He was educated in New Zealand and at St. John's College, Cambridge. He came over from New Zealand in July, 1915, receiving his commission the same month, and left for the front in February this Year. He is believed to have been killed" leading his men in an attack- He married, in November, 1915, Eirene Mary, second daughter of Mr. C. J. Stewart, the Public Trustee, and Lady Mary Stewart.

CAPTAIN A. S. THOMSON. Captain Alastair Sinclair Thomson, who .has fallen in action, was the third son of Mr. and Mrs- J. Sinclair Thomson, of Ueraldine, and a nephew of Sir St. Clair Thomson, M.D. He was educated at the famous Scottish Public School at Loretto, and when the war broke out was sheepfanning in New Zealand. He was 24 years of age. His eldest brother was killed in action in March, 1915. CAPTAIN T. H. KINDER. Further information received by the relatives of Captain T. H. Kinder, leaves no room for doubt that he was killed on July 3, and the War Office officially confirms this. Captain Kinder was at the head of his platoon when a shell burst quite close to him, and he was killed instantly. His colonel, writing to his father, Mr. H. Kinder, of Auckland, says that he died leading his men to take a very strong position. He was a very keen soldier and a most popular officer, whom his men followed with every confidence. Captain Kinder was 24 years of age; an " Old Bov" of Wanganui College, and when war broke out he was studying for holy orders at Cains College, Cambridge. , CAPTAIN F. W. GRAY. Captain Frederick W. Gray is now officially presumed to have been killed on August 1, last year. Captain Gray was the eldest son of the late Henry Francis Gray, of Christchurch, and was born in 1672. Educated at Harrow and Sandhurst, he got his commission in the South Wales Borderers in 1892, served through the Boer War and, in 1906, resigned, owing to ill-health, with the rank of captain. When the war broke out he joined the Dorset Yeomanry as second lieutenant, and he was missing after the charge by that regiment in Gallipoli, on August '21. He had previously been awarded the Military Cross.

LIST OF WOUNDED. New Zealanders who appear in the list of wounded this week include Lieutenant J. A. B. Hellaby, Lieutenant J. A. W. Robertson, Lieutenant J. B. W. Roberton, Captain Guy, Fetherston, and Second-Lieutenant W. T. W. Ching. Captain Fetherston was previously mounded in 1915. All of these officers come from Auckland.