PERSONALIA

New Zealand Times, Volume XLIII, Issue 10058, 24 August 1918, Page 3

PERSONALIA

Private A. A. Seely, of Carterton, hal been killed in action.

Private J. Germain, of Alfredtan, ia reported te be seriously ill.*

Sir William Fraser. Minister for Public Works, returns from the south this morning.

Mr B. L. Salmon, a popular figure in Association football circles, who went into camp last March, has been declared unfit for active service and was on Thursday discharged from Featherston camp.

A Press Association telegram front' Dunedin reports that Dr A. W, T. O’Sullivan, District Health Officer for Otago and Southland, has been transfered to Auckland. He will be succeeded in the South by Dr I. B. Paris, an Otago University Graduate. Both are returned soldiers. The appointment of Mr'W. F. Oak* toy to tho position of chief messenger to tho House of Beprcsentatives is announced. He was born in Moleswortb street 54 years ago, his father having come out to New Zealand in 1840 arid fought in the Maori War. Mr Oakley has been in the Public Service for tho past ton years.

Mr Fred W. Doidge (Auckland), who has been serving in the N.Z.E.F. in Flanders and Great Britain, is about to join the new English Department of Information to look after the New Zealand branch. When he joined up with the Now Zealand Forces, Mr Doidge was chief reporter of the Auckland “Star."

PiTvate A. T. Spicer, who was re* porte” To have won the Military Service Medal recently, is a son of Mr Allan Spicei, Wellington. He was born at Bendigo 24 years ago, and enlisted on reaching military age. Ha went away with the Eighth Reinforce, ment, N.Z.R., and has been through all the fighting in Prance over since, his work being that of a dispatch rider for headquarters. -

Mr S. P. Gumey, the schoolhouse, Halswell, has received ‘ advice from Defence Headquarters, Sydney, that his third son. Driver W. P. Guinoy, of the Australian Field Artillery, had been wounded in action. The message gave no particulars concerning the nature of the wounds. Driver Guiney went across to Sydney over three years ago to - enlist, and left with the stb Brigade of Artillery. Second-lieutenant K. D. O’Sullivan,, who is reported in the wounded list, la a son of Major James O’Sullivan, exDirector of Defence Stores, Wellington. Lieutenant O’Sullivan was severely wounded in the abdomen and forearm in the heavy fighting on tha X6th inst. He was on the staif of tha Public Trust Office when ho went on active service, and left for the front in October last with the 3Dth Reinforcement.

Mr M. J. Moriarty, Ashburton, has been advised- that his brother. Corporal J. J. Moriarty, a member of the Australian Forces, was killed in France on August Bth. The lata Corpc-d Moriarty* had previously been woui.-u.-U and gassed, and was in H.M.S. rat when she was torpedoed. He was the fourth son of Air Michael Moriarty, for many years a resident of Ashburton, and now of Victoria. While residing in Ashburton he was a prominent athlete and a zealous : worker fox the Catholic Literary Society and St Patrick's Sports Association. Sergeant-Major L. Duflou. who, _ ae> cording to a cabio message received last night, has been awarded , the Distinguisued Conduct Medal, is - well known in Wellington. He is an old boy of St. Patrick's College, and for some years was employed in the Bank,.oi New v Zealand staff here. He left with the 9th Reinforcement, and has been ‘‘‘on tho scene” in, France ever since. Sergeant-Major Dufloa’s parents reside in Auckland, and were well known in Wellington before leaving here for tho northern town five or six years age. Both Mr and Mrs Duflou. with their son, were ' prominently associated with the French Club in Wellington.

Private E. B. J. Fell, who was killed in-action on the Western front on the Sth 'inst., was a son of the lat* J.' Fell, of 6. Rata road. Hataitai. ton Dunedin, and a brother of Air GJ. J. Fell, of 6. Bata road, Hataitai. After'being educated at the Kensington Public School,, he obtained a scholarship for the Otago Boys’ High School, and from there served his apprenticeship with Messrs A. and T Burt, Ltd., of Dunedin. Subsequently he joined the Railway Department, and-resign-ed about two years ago in Older to enlist in the 26th Reinforcement. He leaves a wife and two children, who arc at present living at Hern© Bay, Auckland. :

The death took place a few days age of an old and well-known and esteemod settler of , Parkvale, Air Ackerman. The deceased was eighty years of age, and was born at Burton, England. Ho arrived in Hew Zealand in. 1879 in the Zealandia, and settled in Wairarana as a farmer. .■ He had been ill for some months, and the end came peacefully. Ho leaves a family of two sons and four daughters Messrs W. Ackerman and J. Ackerman (of Masterton), Alesdamos Halfyard and Gravestock (Alastertou), Airs Adams and Aliss Ackerman (of Parkvale). Iho late Air Ackerman was of a cheery, active, and most neighbourly settler, and had many friends. .

News has been received that Lieutenant William T. H. Grace has been, severely wounded, and transferred to hospital in England. This is the second time - that Lieutenant Grace has been wounded since the beginning of the German offensive on March 21st. His in's! wound was In the head, and was received during the German advance in the Somme Valley: he has now been wounded in the legs. - Lieutenant W. Grace’s younger - brother, .Richard, has also been wounded in the head, ; but not seriously. He was a medical student at ilditiburgh when war broke out. ana enlisted in the Royal Soots, and has sect, heavy fighting in France, including the German offensives in, the .Somme and Lys valleys. He is an alumnus of Nelson College. Lieutenant Uami Grace, another brother, was killed on the Gallipoli Peninsula, at the storming of Sari Bair. Ho was a noted football player in his time, an ex-Wellington College boy, and a Government servant. The father of these three gallant soldiers is Mr L. M. Grace, of the Native Department, Wellington. Lieu-tenant-Colonel Grace, of Nelson, is. an uncle. , ’