MEN WHO HAVE FALLEN.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16672, 17 October 1917, Page 8

MEN WHO HAVE FALLEN.

♦ ■ — LIEUTENANT H.D. BUDDLE. Cablb advice was received yesterday to the '•fleet that Lieutenant H. D. Buddie, youngest son of Mr. Thomas Buddie, and a member of the legal firm of Buddie, Richmond, and Buc'dte, has been slightly wounded, in the skull. Lieutenant Buddie left Auckland with the twenty-second reinforcement, FLIGHT-LIEUTENANT W. H. COATES. Advice has been received thai FlightLieutenant W. ii. Coatee, who was previously reported missing, is now reported believed killed. Lieutenant Coates was brougnt down by ami-aircraft gunare on July 22, and his machine 101 l behind the enemy linos. Lieutenant Coates is a brother of Captain J. G. Coates, M.P.. and is a I member of the firm of G. and R. Coates, I Mmaicohe. He left New Zealand with the I Fifth Mounted Reinforcements, Md saw seij vico on Gallipoli, where he gained his commission. After going through the Egyptian campaign, he was in .December last accepted for training in the Royal Flying Corps. He was later transferred to England, where he was for some time engaged on coastal scout duty. For the past six months he had been in the aviation service in France, Lieutenant Coates was regarded as a highly capable aviator and a gallant pilot. REPORTED WOODED. Captain F. A. Taylor is well . known in Auckland as a prominent cricketer. For I same years he was a member of the University Club, and woe at one time a member lof the Auckland representative team, He was educated at the Auckland Grammar : School, and later at the University College. Pr.or to leaving for the front ho was on the teaching staff of the Auckland Grammar School. Major J. H. Luxford left Auckland in February, 1916, with the rank of captain, attached to the Rifle Brgade, but on arrival in Franco was transferred to the MachineGun Corps. After a short period of servi e v ith that section, he was promoted to his present rank. He was wounded in the battle of Messines, but later rejoined his I corps. Prior to leaving for the front he was practising as a solicitor at To Awamutu. Lieutenant H. W. H. Coates U tho youngest son of Mr. Thos. Coates, of Remuera. He left New Zealand with tho eighth reinforcements, attached to the Auckland Mounted Rifles. After a period of inactivity in Egypt he decided to transfer to the infantry. He went to Franco in May. 1916. This is the third occasion on which he has been woundod. The first time, he was ,„„„.,J»,) I* »!,. fnvnhoftsl On ffcfl FljMtld

wounded in the foronead. Un me euwna occasion he was slightly wounded by ihrapnol, but remained with his unit. Lieut. W. P. Aitken is the second . son of Mr. R. M. Aitkon, of Victoria Avenue, Mount Eden. Lieut. Aitken, who is a solicitor, enlisted in January 1919, being then employed by Messrs. Buddie. Richmond and Buddie From a sergeant in the i fifteenth reinforcements ho r*>coiv*d a commission in tho nineteenth draft, with which he I loft Now Zealand. He is attaohed to the 6th, Hauraki Rogimont in the Fourth Now Zea-. i land Brigade, and was engaged in the fighting- at Messines. His only brother. Corporal Alex. Aitken, after Borving in Samoa, left with the filth reinforcements for Egypt, and returned invalided, but is now engfeed as fourth Mieineer on an Admiralty collier. ,