MENTIONED IN DESPATCHES
Captain W. G. Tweedy, who was mentioned in the latest War Office despatch, is a well-known Otago University cricketer and member of the South Island team in inter-university cricket matches. He is a lawyer by profession. Captain Tweedy left New Zealand with the Fifth Reinforcements as a sergeant in N6. 2 New Zealand Star tionary Hospital. When he reached Cairo he was made lieutenant and quartermaster. After reaching England, and ,while he was acting as quartermaster at Brockenhurst Hospital he received his captaincy. Captain W. S. Wallis, who has been mentiontd in a War Office despatch, was educated at the Christchurch Boys' High School. Then he took the medical course at Otago University, and afterwards booo.mo a house surgeon in the Christchurch Hospital. Leaving the dominion in the New Zealand Medical Corps, he was attached to No. 2 Now Zealand Stationary Hospital. Captain Wallis played cricket for_ tho West 'Christchurch Club, Ota.go University, and, later, for the Ricoarton Clu:b.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 17084, 16 August 1917, Page 6
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