ON SERVICE.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 16315, 23 February 1915, Page 6

ON SERVICE.

(From Oub Own Cokubspondent.) LONDON, January 5. Commander Henry Jb. Urate, li.jj..;-;. Anv Zealand, h«£ beun promoted to tliu rank ol ocipLaitt. Liuuiefliiat-coiumaudor Dudley B. N\ North, U j.l.ii. New Zealand, lias been promoted mj uominandur.

Uaptaiu S. layior (Wellington;, Captain A. 'l'a.ylo* (LiiKXJin), and Lap tarn i-. U. fciiddall all of the .Nuw ZealiUid Veterinary Corps, have como on to Jiuglaiul witb tint transporte from New iSiialand, affair having lauded the liorst's of tno iixpeditionary Force at Alexandria. Thcro wore in ii\ eoine 3800 horses, and as tJio dcatli rato among tlie animals during the voyago waa only 1.84 per cent., tho New Zealand Veterinary Corps lias roasou to congratulate itself. Major .(. G. Hughes, military secretary to General Godley, commanding the New Zealand Expeditionary Force, has been rather seriously ill sinoe the force left New Zealand, and had to undergo an operation in Egypt. Hβ is now making fair progress. Mr G. W. J. ltussell, of the New Zealand Artillery (Brigade Ammunition Column) is staying at Hastings. Mr Harper M. Lopper, of Taranaki, hae joined G Company at the Royal Military College at Sandhurst Lieutenant E. H. Taylor (late 3rd Auckland Regiment), who won the 1914 niilitaiy examination for a commission in the British army, and was appointed tr> the York and Regiment, is now with his battalion in this country. It has just returned from Jubbulpore, India. Nurse Lilian Emerson (Cbristchurch) and Nurse Jones, who arrived recently in England, have been accepted by the War OffiVo for army nursing with the R.A.M.C. Nurse Emerson, who is the wifo of Lieutenant Emerson, of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force, is now engaged in professional duties at Millbank Hospital. Private R. Blackman (Christchurch) is serving with tho Royal Fusileers at Horsham. Mr Alan Macdougall,_ the Rhodes scholar, is a second lieutenant in the same battalion. Lieutenant E. A. H. Whitcombe, of the Royal Artillery, has gone to Woolwich for instruction.

William Oliver Powell, a Wellington man. who was a stoker petty officer on H.M.& Bulwark, was lost in the disaster to that vessel.

Private E. YoxhalL, of the British section of the Now Zealand Expeditionary Force, died at Alexandria of meningitis on December 27, within a few days of the arrival of the contingent in Egypt. It is interesting to note that there is quite an epidemic of meningitis amongft the Canadians wuo have been encamped on Salisbury Plain close to the New Zealand camp at Sling Plantation, It is fortunate, in view of this experience, that tho main body of the New Zealanders did not come on to England to spend the winter there.

Mr W. L. Caccia Birch has ono son (Anthony) in the army class at Marlborough College preparing for entry into Sandhurst in June, and another (Thomas) at the Fornden Preparatory School, Haslemere, preparing for tho Royal N«val College. Both were for some years at the Huntley School at Marton. Two of Mr Birch's cousins, both Wanganui College boys, are in the army, Mr W. R. Birch in the Ist Dragoons at York, and Mr Jack Birch in the 6th Battalion South Lancashire Regiment. Both have obtained their commission since tho war began. Mr B. C. Frcyberg (Wellington), who was a lieutenant in the Royal Naval Division during the last days of Antwerp, has bo-n promoted lieutenant commander. He now commands a company in the 2nd Brigacio of the Division.

Colonel E. S. Heard is now general staff officer, first grade, and is acting as chief of staff to the Canadian troops. Staff-sergeant M. Ryan (late of Otago), King's Liverpool Regiment, has been appointed instructor of musketry, at Altcar. near Liverpool. After his convalescence from wounds received nt Mons, this Now Zealander was made acting sergeant at tho School of Musketry, where he took a musketry course, and was fortunate enough to pass with 95 per cent, of marks. The work at the school consists of training non-com-missioned officers and officers in the higher branches of riflo. and machine gun work. It embraces (as docs the training at the parent school at Hythe) the use of ground, cover, and formations of troops in attack and defence, visual training, and the use of range-finding instruments. In fact, tho school's teaching is direct training for war.

Lieutenant N. Matthews, R.A.M.C, of New Zealand, is one of a Rugby fifteen selected to play for the Northern Command in .a charity match against tho Public School Brigade of the Royal Fusiliers. Mr Hugh Duff, Kereru, H. 8., holds a commission in Lovat's Scouts, tho wellknown regiment of Scottish horse which did sudi good service in the Boer war, and has been resuscitated for service on tho Continent.

Dr C. C. Choyce, the Auckland boy who h:iß had for some years the post of surgeon to t'tte Seamen's Hospital at Greenwich, is at present surgeon on the staff of the Austialian Voluntary Hospital at Boulogne. Amongst the New Zealanders on foreign service is Lieutenant Harland H. Dean, who a few years ago was a member of the 0.T.0., at Victoria College, Wellington. Lieutenant Dean was appointed to the Dorsot Regiment in December, 1911, and joined his battalion at Poona, Bombay. Tho Dorsets formed the British backbone of the foroe which has been invading Turkey so successfully by way of the Persian Gulf. They brilliantly rushed the Turkish position at the mouth of the Shat-el-Arab.

Mr Wilfred Findlay has been posted as second lieutenant to the King's Royal Rißes, and Mr Wilfred Callender to tho Worcestershire Regiment. Lieutenant Alfred B. Rose, of the Manchester Regiment, son of the late Captain Henry Rose, of Wellington, came home on the outbreak of war from British Guiana, where he had been staff officer to tho local forces since 1912. On returning home he was promoted captain, and went straight to the fiont with his regiment. Ho is now reported wounded. Captain Rose served with a New Zealand contingent in South Africa, end after joining the British Army he saw service with the King's East African Rifles, and in Somaliland, where he was wounded in the operations a few years ago. He is now in hospital in London making a. good recovery from his wound, which is in the thigh, and is not eerious.

Mr A. le Grande Campbell (Wellington), who is a recent arrival from New Zealand, joined the Royal Military College, Camberley. NEW ZEALANDER KILLED.

The death of CapUin Russell has been followed at an interval of a few weeks by that of another New Zealander in the same rogiment — the Northamptons — Captain Charles Harold Reynell Watts. Captain Watts wa*> formerly in the New Zealand Forces, and obtained his first commission in the Northampton Regiment in 1906, when he was 24 years of age. He went with the regiment from Bordon camp to Coli bester ; thence to Malta, where he was promoted ; and then to Egypt, where they were when the war broke out. Captain Watts was very keen on rifle shooting. Lieutenant Charlos Cochrane llos, M.D U.1 , .L1., D.T.M., F.C.S., whoso death was recorded from France just before Christmas, was serving with the R.A.M.C, attached to the 2nd East .Lancashire Regiment. Ho was the second son of Mr Walter lies, of Ngatapa, Uisborne, and his death at the early ago of 28 lias cut short what might have been a specially brilliant career. A a a student at Edinburgh, and since, he had done well. Dr lies volunteered at the outbreak of the war and h<» was sent t-i Dcvonport. It wns not tfll toward trie end of November Uuit he was sent to France. On December 19 h'> was wounded, and his death occurred the same day. It seems that after having spent three weeks in the trenches with the field ambulance he had been resting for a few days, and was on his way ba/ck to the trenches with a fresh supply of badly needed appliances for the wounded. It was while on his way to duty that he wan shot, probably by a, eniper, and his death followed shortly after. Next day he was buried in the little British military plot, at Estaircs. Franco, the service being conducted by the Rev. M. W. T. Conran, Chaplain to the Forces. Four or live hundred men of the three local Field Ambulances attended the funeral. 'Ihe last position in England hr!d by Dr lies was that of assistant pathologist to the Pathological, liacterial, and Clinical Research laboratories, Royal Sussex Hospital, Brighton. Dr lies came to England 10 years ago to enter Edinburgh University as a student, and ho had never since been in New Zealand.