PERSONAL NOTES FROM LONDON.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 16577, 28 December 1915, Page 10

PERSONAL NOTES FROM LONDON.

(Fbom Our Own Correspondent.) October 2,2. A wedding of New Zealand interest was solemnised at St. Saviour's Church, JDagshai, on September 20, when Mies Isobel Vicia, only daughter of Colonel and Mrs Collins, of Wellington, was married to Harry Lincoln Milsom, 15th Prince Albert's Somerset L.1., liith son of Mr F. H. Milsom, of Bath. Among the callers to-day at the High Commissioner's office were the Misses Miller, DunedinMr Geoffrey Harrison, of North Canterbury, who camo to England three months ago, has been appointed second lieutenant in tho York and Lancashire Regiment. His brother, Mr ltoscoe Harrison, is in tho Honourable Artillery Company at the front, and is one of the bomb throwers of his company. Captain E. ff. W. Lascelles, of the 3rd Dragoon Guards, is promoted major. Captain Lascelles lias for the last year or two been a brigade major in the south-western command. Sergeant A. Kingsford, of the 2nd King Edward's Horse, is now a second lieutenant in the Royal Engineers. Air J. G. Wanklyn (Christchurch) has entered for a term at Oxford, and hopes to get a commission through tho O.T.C. there. Captain E. A. 'G. Holdgate has arrived from the Dardanelles with a rather oerious bullet wound in the arm. Hie bone was shattered on July 10, and Captain Holdgate has since been under treatment at Malta and in England. He is now at tho Endsleigh Palace Hospital. Mr Alec M. Proctor (Wellington) hopes to join the Royal Flying School at Farnborough. Mr Proctor was for some time honorary pastor of the Takapuna Baptist. Church. Lieut. L. W. Tosswill, of the 9th Battalion Warwickshire Regiment, has arrived in England to recover from a slight bomb wound in the thigh. He is already able to move about freely, and will probably rejoin his depot in about a month. • Lieut. Tosswill, who belongs to Christchurch, -and is an old boy of Waitaki High School, went to Egypt as a sergeant in the Fourth Reinforcements. On joining the main body all the non-commissioned officers became once more full privates, and Mr Tosswill was a corporal until the big advance early in August. As the result of what happened then, he and an Auckland boy were selected for commissions in the Imperial Army, and he was posted to his present battalion, which is now in the Mediterranean. Amongst the recent arrivals in England is a member of the Maori Contingent, Private Rata Namana, a Ngatikahungunu, of Hawke's Bay, who nas udergone the delicatc operation of . trepanning. During the fighting in August a bomb burst close in front of him. and a fragment struck him on the forehead and pierced the skull. He went to hospital in Alexandria, where the skull was opened and the fragment removed, and he is now quite k recovered. He says with satisfaction that he got ono back on to the Turks before he fell.