WAR CASUALTIES

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23966, 16 May 1941, Page 11

WAR CASUALTIES

expeditionary force 14 KILLED IN ACTION LIST OF 27 WOUNDED [BV TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION J WELLINGTON, Thursday The following casualties to members „f the Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force hare lieen reported: KILLED IN ACTION jjosworth, Laurence Brian—Mr. L. A. Boswnrth. Optinake (father). Burgess. Herbert Henry—Mrs. L. Burgess. Manganiaire. Pahiatua (mother). gloxsome, Francis Charles.—Mr. F. 11. Blo.xsonie, Auckland (father), Bring, John Stanley Horton (Sgt.)— Mr-. A. D Dring, Mast or ton

_ (wite): Green, James Andrew.—Mrs. W. Han-

son. Bluff (mother). Logie, Thomas (Sgt.)—Mrs. C. D. I>ogio,, Lower llutt (wife). Lovell, Norman Ernest (L.-Cpl.).—Mr. E. A. Lovell, Ingle wood (father). McKay, Nigel Reay (Lieut.).—Mr. C. McKay, Waipu (lather). O'Brien, John—Mrs. P. O'Brien. To Puke (mother). O'Neill, Allen Edward (L.-Cpl.)—Mr. K. H. O'Neill. Teniuka (father), gandiford, George Murray (L.-Cpl.)— Mr. (J. V. H. Saudi ford, Wni-

totard (lather). Tustin, John Ross—Mrs. A. M. Tustin Wellington (mother). Wilson, Douglas— Mrs. M. Wilson Wellington (wife)

DIED OF WOUNDS Oollinewood, James.—J. J. Crab, Matamata (friend). ' WOUNDED Borrows, Frederic (Sgt.'i.—Mr?. J. C. A. Borrows, England (mother). Cairney, Hank. —Mrs. J. Cairney, Canada (mother). Carruth, Hugh Graeme (Lieut.-Col.) —Mr?., 31. E. Carruth, Wainui, Whangarei (mother). Clark. Thomas Harold Douglas—Mrs. J. Clark, Waimate (mother).

Cockcroft. .Tack—-Mrs. H. Cockcroft. Upper Hutt (wife). Denver, Henry Edward—Mrs, P. V. Denver, Auckland (wife). Dillon, Douglas Gordon (Sgt.)—Mrs. E. A. Dillon. Otane (mother). Dobson, Albert Mitchell. —Mrs. I. A. M. Dobson, Whangarei (wife). Freney, William Bruce Myers.—Mrs. T. S. Hower (Auckland). George, Douglas Lloyd—Mr. A. George, Moturoa (father). Hearn, Arthur William—Mrs. E. Hearn, Waihi (mother). Johnson, William Arthur—Mr. G. W. Johnson, Lumsden (father). Lambert, Alexander Georgo Leslie— M rs. M. Lambert, Hawera (mother). lorett, Charles Stewart.—Mr. W. J. Lovett, Aramoho (brother). McCarthy Christopher John (Cpl.).— Mrs. A. E. McCarthy, Auckland

(wife). Marshall, Harold (Cpl.).—Mrs. H. M. Marshall, Auckland (wife). Morrison, William Richard Kirnmitt

(Capt.) —Mr. W. Morrison, Auckland /(father). Munro, lan Brown (L.-Sgt.L—Captain A. Munro, North Head, Auckland (brother). Peacock, George Henry.—Mr. E. Pea-

cock, Hihitahi (brother). Pistor, Charles Adair.—Mrs. E. Pistor, Gisborne (mother). Eeitman, Stanley Barrington.—Mr. A. Reititfan, Thames (father). Smyth, David George William.—Mrs. I. K. Smyth, Dunedin (mother). Smyth e, Sidney George Lvle (2nd Lieut.). —Mr. W. S. Smythe, Eng-

land (father). {Tregea, John James. —Mrs. E. C, Tregea, Tahuna. Dunedin (wife)Turner, Roger William. —Mrs. N. J Patrick, Christehurch. [Wallace, Clifford Bruce (L.-Sgt.).—Mr J. A. Wallace, Auckland (father) Wright, Sydney Alexander. —Mr. W C. Wright, Mangere (father). PRISONER OF WAR

Powell, Reginald Henry.—Mrs. E. M Powell, Hawera (mother).

AIRMAN BELIEVED DEAD TWO KILLED ON OPERATIONS [BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION'] WELLINGTON. Thursday The following Air Force casualties are announced:—

Cattell, James Clark (Sgt.), R.N.Z. A.F., now reclassified missing, believed killed. —Mrs. M. E. Cattell, Karori (mother). Dixon, Norman Franklin (Sgt.), R.N.Z. A.F., killed on air operations.—Mr. C. Dixon, Invercargill (father). Walker, Basil Alexander (Sgt.), R.N.Z.A.F., killed on air opera- - tions,—Mrs.' K. Walker, Napier (mother). Sirkcaldie, Norman Mervvn Kebbell (Pilot-Officer), R.N.Z.A.P., missing on operations.—Mrs. N. Kirkcaldie, Wellington (mother).

NORTHLAND FARMER HIGH JUMP CHAMPION (0.C.) WHANGAREI, Thursday Reported killed in action, Lieutenant N. R. McKay, aged 32, matriculated at the Whangarei High School, where he was a,, member of the school first fifteen. He farmed a large property at Waipu. Lieutenant McKay won promotion to commissioned rank in the North Auckland Mounted Rifles (Territorial). He left New Zealand as a lieutenant with the second echelon. In England he was transferred to the Anti-Tank Corps and given the temporary rank of captain, which he relinquished on rejoining the infantry. Lieutenant McKay won the Auckland provincial high jump championship and was a leading competitor in putting the shot and tossing the caber. He was a vice-president of the Waipu Caledonian Society.

HIGH OFFICER WOUNDED WHANGAHE! BARRISTER According to an announcement early in April Lieutenant-Colonel H. G. Carruth, who is reported wounded, was appointed to the temporary command of the Divisional Cavalry Regiment. He was formerly a barrister and solicitor in W hangarei.

RECOVERY REPORTED CAPTAIN W. R. K. MORRISON Ad.-ict>' that; his eldest son, Captain W. R. K. Morrison, Jf.Z.S.C., had been wounded, hut since discharged from hospital, has been recvived by Mr. W. manager ot the Auckland branch of the I'mmi Han!.' "• \ustralia.