ROLL OF HONOUR

New Zealand Herald, Volume 81, Issue 24930, 27 June 1944, Page 7

ROLL OF HONOUR

EXPEDITIONARY FOBCE killed and wounded (ps ) WELLINGTON, Monday The following Second N.Z.E.F. casualty list was issued to-day:— KILLED IN ACTION Wills. J. S. (T. W. 0.11.) —Hunterville. killed on active service Wylie, M. (Capt.)— Oamaru. Strawbridge, J. J.—Fcilding. WGUNOED Hurley, K. —Mr. E. M. Hurley. Otorohanga (father). Keane, T. P. —Mrs. J. H. Iveana, Auckland (wife). Rapiro> M. (Cpl.)—Mrs. O. Hutai, Kohukohu (sister). Sowter, S. S.—Mrs. A. Sowt<?r. Whangarei (wife). Tawh3 ra > p> s -—^ rs - C ' Taw kara. Coromandel (mother). NOW REPORTED SAFE previously reported prisoners Buchanan, W. — I'okonui. Butson, S.— Invercargill. Day, P- W. (L.-Cpl.)—Pukekohe. LOSSES ON SERVICE airman and soldiers CASUALTIES IN ITALY Reported believed killed in action, Pilot-Officer John Walter Armstrong Tvas the only son of Mr. and Mrs. F. C. Armstrong, of Redvale. He was born in England in 1915 and came to New Zealand in 1921. He was educated at Albany. Kowhai Intermediate School and Mount Albert Grammar School. He later won the gold medal for excellence at Ruakura State farm. He transferred to the Royal New Zealand Air Force in 1941 after having been a member of, the Territorial Force and gained his wings before leaving for Great Britain. After further training lie was posted to a Stirling bomber squadron »nd later transferred to a Lancaster squadron. One of Four Brothers Sergeant .J. O. Martin, who is reported to have died from wounds, was the youngest son of Mrs. . Martin and the late Mr. 1,. Martin, of Peri.i. He was horn in 1919 at Mangonui and was educated at the Pcria School. He enlisted in the Royal New Zealand Air Force at the age of 20 and later transferred to the Army. He left New Zealaud in 1940 and served in Greece, Crete, where he was wounded, Libya and Italy. He was one of four brothers who had served in the Middle _ East forces. One of the others is a prisoner of war, another was invalided home and the third returned to New Zealand fcrloucrh

P lot-Officer J W. Armstrong

Lance-Corporal li. R. Jackson, who has been reported killed in action, was the elder «i>n oi' Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Jackson, ot MK4 New North Road, Mount Albert, and was aged 25. He volunteered on September 4, 1939, and was posted to garrison forces in an artillery unit Later he went to Australia on a special course and afterward left for the Middle East. He was wounded at F.I Alamein in 1941 and after leaving hospital was sent to Mnndi base camp as a sergeant instructor He rose to the rank of warrantofficer but when the Second Division went to Italy resigned his rank and went with the division as a private. Fie was educated at Kowhai Intermediate School and Mount Albert Grammar School Two Keen Athletes Lance-Corporal H. Chapman, who has been killed in action, was the eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. H. Chapman, of Green Lane. He was educated at the Otahuhu primary and technical schools and before going overseas was for two years on the instructional staff at the Army School of Instruction, Trentham, ■where he rose to the rank of staffsergeant. Lance-Corporal Chapman was a keen footballer and golfer, and as a member of the Manukau Golf Club had won many club trophies. Private Clarence Hector Hardaker, ■who has been killed in action, was the husband of Mrs. Hardaker, of Morrinsville. He left New Zealand a year ago after serving for three years in the Territorial Force. Private Hardaker was educated at the Patea primary and Hawera secondary schools and went to Morrinsville eight years ago. He was a member of the Morrinsville Amateur Cycling Club, with which he had won many trophies, and he was also a member of the United Football Club at Morrinsville. BAIL FOR ACCUSED COURT REFUSES RELEASE '{P.A.) DUXEDIN, Monday An unusual application by a bondsman for release from his bond was made in the Police Court, when Stanley Robert Phillips and Henry Walton Phillips appeared on remand on a charge of breaking, entering and theft at Naseby on June 13. The bondsman was Albert James Dryden, who alleged that he suspected the accused were about to abscond Counsel said the applicant had entered into recognisance for the appearance of the accused at the Supreme Court on July 25 on other charges than the present one. Notwithstanding the fact of the accused being now under arrest and in custody the bondsman still remained liable to produce them, and if a prison break occurred the bondsman would still be liable. A further ground was that since the bond was entered upon, fresh charges had been preferred. Mr. H. W. Bundle, S.M., said the Court's jurisdiction was limited, lie could not see how it could be said that, because a man was in custody, he was about to abscond. r l he application was dismissed. The accused were remanded on the fresh charges until July -I. POPULATION PROBLEM (0.C.) HAMILTON. Monday Speaking at the Hamilton Rotary Club gathering to-day, Mr. R. S. All--right, organiser of the Dominion Settlement Association, quoted statistics showing that 49 per cent of New marriages were childless and loss than 1 per cent of families had six children .The speaker advocated the immigration of 10.000,000 orphans from Europe t° populate New Zealand and defeat the possibility of a .serious racial decline. WOMAN SENT TO GAOL <°C.) WHANGAREI, Monday For a breach of her probationary hcence, Frerla McLean, a Maori domestic, was sentenced to one month's imprisonment. by Mr. Raymond Ferner, °-M., in Whaiigarei to-day. A term of McLean's licence was that she was not to associate with servicemen, said the probation officer. HowgT ef , this term had not been obeyed, she had been warned previously, as her conduct while on probation had been ao «t unsatisfactory. [