ON SERVICE

Otago Daily Times, Issue 16888, 28 December 1916, Page 5

ON SERVICE

(Fnoa Otnt Oww Cor respond but.) LONDON, October 10. Flight-lieutenant A. Do B. Brandon attended at Buckingham Palace last week t« reccive the. decorations which he has beefl awarded for services against Zeppelins. His ease was rather an unusual ono, for the King pinned on his tunic si tho same time the Military Cross which ho -won tortus months ago, and the D.S.O. for services during the recent raid. Tho latter decoration is not for actually destroying a Zeppelin, but for some services in connection with tho destruction of several of them, which is regarded in the Royal Flying Corps as ticularly deserving of recognition. Tho King shook hands with Lieutenant Brandon and congratulated him. Matron Bertha Nurse, N.Z.A.N.S., received the Royal Red Cross of the First Class from the King at Buckingham Palace last week. Miss Nurse was trained at the Wellington Hospital and had seen some services abroad (at the and Military Hospital in Cairo before the wnr). she went to Samoa with the N.Z.E.F., and is now matron of No. 1 New Zealand General Hospital at Broekenhurst. Mr W. Cecil Leys (Auckland) has returned to England from Salonika, where he baa been driving a motor ambulance for some months pist. He hopes to bo appointed to duty in France,

Sergeant Frank Green, N.Z.E.F., has'been anpointed second lieutenant in the Royal Flying Corps. He has lately been attached to Headquarters in Southampton row. Miss Mnv PalmT (Wellington) is at present on leave from the hospital ship Astarias. She was previously at some other m'lifnrv hosnitn! in France.

Miss E. G. Williams. Q.A.I.M.N.S. (T© Ante), has returned to England after doing almost a year's nursing at Gibraltar and Malta, and has bon having a week or tiro's rest at tb" New Zealand Convalescent Homo at. Sanwich.

Second Lieutenant J. E. Histod, R.F.C. (Auckland), is confirmed in his appointment, and is now n flying offic"r. , y , Mr Hubert Willes. who joined Strath- ' eona's Hers" in the early days of the war, has passed through an Officers' Training, Corps, and 1 now has a commission in the . o^ f "rd and BueVs Lie-lit, Tnfantrv. Mi<ss Agnes Al'on (Waipiro Bav) is now attached to the 32nd General Hospital at Amara, in Mesopotamia. ROLL OF HONOUR. The death is announced, killed in action, of Private L. R. Scott,' No. 386, Royal Sussex Regiment. His next-of-kin are in Christchurch. N.Z.

Private J. Bell, Royal Scots Fusiliers, No. 9853. has been wounded. He belongs to Winton

Q.M.S. M. J Thomas (Christehnrch), who came to England with the 15th Reinforcements, has been appointed sergeant cf the sth Reserve Battalion, 3rd Now Zealand Rifle Brigacje. He expects to be sent to Tidworth for' a special N.C.O. training course. • The following New Zealand officers have just been admitted to tho No. 1 New Zealand General ■ Hospital, Brockenhurst, from France Captain K. A. Henderson, slight gunshot wound in the leg and right shoulder - , Captain E. A. Holdgate, C.1.8., severe gunshot wound in the knee; Lieutenant C. G. Adams, N.Z.F.A.. severe gunshot wound in the thigh and spine; Lieutenant J. F. Tonkin, C.1.8., slight gunshot wound right buttock; Lieutenant G. Lewis,_ N.Z.R.8., slight gunshot wound in the thigh_ and left arm; Second Lieutenant G. Harrison. N.Z.R.8., slightly gas-poisoned; Second Lieutenant C. S. H. Johnston, A.1.8., severe gunshot wound in the head; Second Lieutenant R. F. Yial, N.Z.F.A., severe gunshot wound right shoulder and hand; Second Lieutenant E. W. Pearse, W. 1.8 . severe, wound in the knee and right thigh. Captain R. Lotran, 2nd C.1.V., is in the Royal Herbert Hospital. Woolwich, and 13 making good progress from fractured tibia; Lieutenant J.. B. Cnthill. 0.1.8., is also at tho Royal Herbert Hospital, and is making fair progress from a gunshot wound m the risrhfc leg.

Lieutenant W M. Thorn, C.1.V., is in St Mark's Hospital, Chelsea, wounded severely in the right shoulder.

Lieutenant T. E. Y. Seddon, New Zealand Rifle Brigade, is a patient at the No. 2 London General Hospital, suffering ■ from an injured knee incurred while playing football behind the front.

Captain A. Gk Mah ( on, A.1.8., is a < patient at the 2nd London General Hospital, suffering from n sFght <runshot wound in the left arm. Also in th° same hospital 1 there is now Lieutenant J. F. Black, 0.1.8., who has been wounded in the chest. Latest arrivals at Brockenhurst from France have included Captain J. L. Saunders. 0.1.8., and Captain 0. H. Mead, C.T.B. '

Corporal H. S. Easfcgate, N.Z.R.B. (Auckland), is one of 10 New Zcalanders who were recommended for a commission reerntlv. He arrived in England, wounded, in the middle of September, and has been at the Homemead Hospital. Lymington. Latest reports are th.it ho is making a very satisfactory progress.