MEN WHO HAVE FALLEN.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16581, 3 July 1917, Page 6

MEN WHO HAVE FALLEN.

CORPORAL LIONEL HALL. Cobpobal Lionel W. B. Hall, who is reported to have died of wounds on June 12, was the second son of Mr. Thomas Hall, District Land Registrar, at Auckland. He was born in 1893 at Auckland, and was educated at Napier High School and Victoria College, Wellington. He joined the Government Survey Department at Wellington, and when the war broke out was with a survey party in the King Country. He immediately enlisted, was transferred to '• the Divisional Signal Company, and went away with the Main Body. He was in the landing on Gallipoli, and afterwards at Cape Helles. After the evacuation he went to France with the Main Body, where he was on active service till he fell, except for a short furlough in England last November, and two ; months spent recently in the south of England, where he had been sent with certain other signallers selected for special training with a new division. He was the?.- promoted to be corporal, and had evidently returned to France and taken part in the severe fighting early last month. Like his elder brother. Corporal V. J. B. Hall, who fell at. Gallipoli, and who went with the Main Body as a private, though holding a commission in the territorials, Corporal L. W. B. Hall was diffident about accepting promotion, owing to defective night sight. 2ND.LIEuTEN.iNT G. P. NATTJSCH. 2nd-Lieutenanfc Guy P. Natusch, reported to have been wounded, is the fourth son of Mr. C. Tilleard Natusch, architect, of Belmont, Wellington. He was educated' at Wellington College, where he was junior running champion for some time. For three years prior to his enlistment in September, 1915, he had been a member of the reportorial staff of the New Zealand Hebald, in which capacity he made .many friends and acquaintances in the city and district. 2nd-Ldentenant Natusch's first experience in journalism was gained on the Dannevirke News. After he went Home he was for a time private secretary to the High Commissioner for New Zealand, Sir Thomas Mackenzie, who was a member of the Dardanelles Commission at the time. He has two brothers also at the front, one of whom, Lieutenant Stanley Natusch, was recently reported wounded at Messines, and was mentioned in despatches for good •work at the evacuation of Gallipoli. The other brother. Lieutenant Cecil Natusch, left for the front last year. SERGEANT T. R. WYATT. Sergeant Tom Ranui Wyatt, killed in action on June 10, was the youngest son of Mr. H. P. Wyatt, superintendent of telegraphs in Christchurch. He was educated at the Napier High School and Auckland Grammar School. During the first months of the war he served with the Garrison Artillery at Fort Cautley. He left for the front in the artillery last year. Before enlisting he was on the staff of the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Company. He leaves a wife, the eldest daughter of the late Mr. C. E. Ifwersen and Mrs. M. M. Ifwersen, of 42, Glasgow! Terrace.

RIFLEMAN P. R. McOONVILLE. j Rifleman P. R. McConville, who is reported to have died of wounds on June 18, wag well known in Gisbome, where he was in business as an accountant. He was a member of the Gisborne Rowing Club and the Gisborne Boxing Association. At the time of his death he was 25 years of age. He was the fifth son of the late Mr. Michael McConville, for many years engineer in the Union Steam Ship Company, and of Mrs. McConville, of O'Neill Street, Ponsonby. He was educated at the Gisborne District High School and the Sacred Heart College, Ponsonby. RIFLEMAN R. J. COX. Rifleman R. J. Cox, killed in action at Messines, was the eldest son of Mr R. Cox, of MatatoM, Thames Valley, and was 23 years of age. He was educated at the Waiokaraka, Puriri and Kopu schools. He volunteered for one of the earliest reinforcements, but was rejected, •but was accepted for a later reinforcement, and left New Zealand early in January, 1916. He landed in Egypt and then proceeded to France, where he saw considerable fighting. He went through the battle of the Somme without being injured. Prior to enlisting he was farming in the Mitatoki district.