FIGHTING FAMILIES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16671, 16 October 1917, Page 6

FIGHTING FAMILIES.

_ ♦- SIX SONS ON SERVICE. ONE KILLED, TWO WOUNDED. An excellent record in the service of their country is that of the family of Mr. Q. E. Blucher, of 64, Beresford Sireet, all of whose sons, six in number, have left on active service as volunteers. Cable advice has just been received that the third son, Sergeant 0. T. Blucher, has been killed in action in France. Sergeant Blucher, who was 32 years of age, left with the seventh reinforcements, and had been _ in j France for the past two years, during which he had only had 10 days' leave. The other eons are Gunners A. W. and A. J. Blucher, who left with the Machine-gun Corps attached to the twenty-first reinforcement, and are now in France; Gunner C. F. E. Blucher, atached to the Army Service Corps of the eighteenth reinforcements, who is also in France; Private D. F. Blucher, who left with the seventh reinforcements, and was wounded in France over a year ago. and is still in hospital in England; and Company-Ser-geant-Major A. M. Blucher, who, at the age of 19, enlisted in the second reinforce- . meats, and after seeing service on Gallipoli was invalided to England,,. He afterwards left with the New Zealand Division for France, where he was wounded ■ in February last. After'spending soma time in hospital, he was attached to the Headquarters v Staff in England.; '- .# ■' Cantain H. T. Boscawen, who is reported to have been ! killed in action, was the eldest son of Colonel Hugh Boscawen, of Mount Eden. Captain JBoscawen, who • formerly was a lieutenant and actingcaptain in the Franklin Mounted Rifles, . eaw service in the Boer War. He left

. New Zealand as a private.with tne warn v; ' \ Body three years ago to-day. ■. He has served both in Gallipoli and- in France, . • and advanced to the rank of captain by %. various promotions in the field. ,He haa ! ; just spent a holiday in. England with his % relatives. Captain Boscawen, who was.37 ■' " Tears of age, was well known in • the Waifcato and King Country, he having been tie . first manager of the TeKuiti Co-operative &.£: Dairy ; Company's factory. \v Ho leaves a , wife and child, his widow, being the eldent >. \ daughter of Mr. R. 5 Crowe, secretary to -?•' the' Auckland t ' Education -Board.- Colonel * Boscawen's two other sons also are en ■ active" service. Lieutenant Spencer Bosv cawen; who is in the artillery, likewise ; left as a private with the Main Body. The. youngest • ■ son, Lieutenant. Edward .Bos- },' • cawen, is at present serrins with the New ■~* Zealand Division of the, Camel Corps in Egypt. Captain- Bosta^'e^and* his brother Spencer were mentioned in Sir Douglas '• Haijfs" despatches « about two ; months ago. Colonel Boscawen's only unmarried daugh- I Z^ier/ Sister Dorothy Boscawen, is now on 1 ' the, nursing staff of one of the military hf-hospitals 1 in | England..;.; A son-in-law of . 1 Colonel Boscawen, Major Skipn-Matthews, $and . two of ■ his : sons, are - serving in the, Canadian Faxes. Colonel Boscawen him|j self was formerly an officer in the British' -; : ;.;'--; Navy, : and he took' an active part in the volunteer movement in its earlier days. 1111