THE ROLL OF HONOUR

Otago Daily Times, Issue 17215, 18 January 1918, Page 5

THE ROLL OF HONOUR

NEW ZEALAND CASUALTIES.

(Peb United Pbess Association.) WELLINGTON, January 17. Tho following lkit wae issued today. Whon the rank is r.ot specified the soldier ia a private, tro;>pcr, sapper, gunner, or rifleman, us the caso may tx>: —

Klllod in Action. CANTERBURY INI-'ANTRIY. D<xeml>or 128.

BEE, ARTHUR WALTER (Mr George Bee, OUihuriri, father).

RENALS, WILLIAM THOMAS (Mrs M. A.

Romiln, Mount Eden, Auckland, mother). SCHMIDT, EDWARD THEODORE (Mre C.

Jt. Si:hmidt, Westport. mother). MACKKNZIii, JOHN (Mre John William-

son, Wellington, aunt). WItOBLEISKE," FRANCIS (Mrs Bertha Wrobkskc, Kanieri, West land, mother).

Previousiy Reported Died from Wounds; now Reported Accidentally Killed.

AUCKLAND INFANTRY. November 20. MOFFITT, CLARENCE ARMSTRONG, Lance-corporal (Mrs Louisa Moffitt, St.

Helier's Bay, Auckland). CANTERBURY INFANTRY. November 26. PAWSIiY, ALBERT ARTHUR, Corporal (Mr G. E. Pawsey, Southward, Canterbury, father).

Previously Reported Missing, Believed Killed; now Declared by Court of Inquiry, Kiiied in Action. WEtLtLINGTON , INFANTRY. December 4. RICE, PATRICK JAMES (Mrs Sarah Bice, W-aihi, mother). Wounded. ENGINEERS. January 4. BENNETT, "WILFRED (Mrs CatherineBennett, Northumbarland, England, mother). AUCKLAND INFANTRY. December 28. SANDERSON, WILIJAM (Mr A. Sanderson, Pa-pa-toctoe, father). WELLINGTON INFANTRY. December 28. NAYLOR, ARTHUR (Mr Arthur Naylor, Piaka, father). (January 1.) WELHAM, JOHN MAYFIELD (Mrs E. A. "Welhaan, England, ni-c-tlier). CANTERBURY INFANTRY. December 27. BLAIR, GEORGE TURNELL M'NETL (Miss M. Blair, ChfisUihurch, sister). December 23. I>UFF, WALTER (Mrs E. T. Wearne, Lyttclton). January 3. TINKINiGTON, CHRISTOPHER WM. JOHN (Mr Wm. Tinkington, Pleasant Point, father). WHJEEL-EU, GEORGE HERBERT (Mrs T. Wkeeier, Loagburn). OTAGO INFANTRY. December 38. M'INTYRE, DONALD RUPERT (Mir Hugh M'lntyre,. Benio, Southland, father). January 2. BECK, ALBEIRT RlOBiilRT (Mr Gco. Beck, Timaru, father). DON, ALEXANDER (Mr James Don, Windsor, father). MAORI CONTINGENT. January 3. WHAKARUA, HBKEfWIRTJI, Lanoensergeant (Mts Wha-kama., Waitotara). Wounded; Admitted to Hospital. AUCKLAND INFAMTRY. January 1. DUNCAN, CHARLES ,(Mr C. Duncan, South Africa, father). WELLINGTON INFANTRY. December 29. BOOTPEY, JAMES (Mr F. Rooney, Whangamomofna, father). Wounded; Embarked for England. AUCKLAND' INFANTIIY. December 19. WILLIAMS, SIMEON HENRY, Lancecorporal (Mb J. B. Williams, Russell, brother). Slightly Wounded; Remaining with Unit. AUCKLAND INFANTRY. December 23. LANER, WILLIAM, Lance-corporal (Mr Frederick Laner, Pukekohe, father). CANTERBURY INFANTRY. January 1. BUCKENHAM, RALPH CECIL, Lancecorporal (Mr U. P. Buukenhaon, Sydenham, brother). January 3. TYSON;, WILLIAM HENRY (Mr J. Tyeon, Springston, South Canterbury, father). MAORI .CONTINGENT. January 3. PAKU, SONNY (Mrs Maggie Paku, Wairoa, wife). Th> following hospital and progress report lias boon received: — Dangerously ill. Allan, R. F.; Carroll, T.; Fraser, A. C; Gilligher, G.;, Lever, 0. 0.; Ogilvio D. A.; Skinner, K. J.; Trcnberth, G. F. S.; Soundy, A. W. Captain (making good progress). Removed from Dangerously 111 List. Ifllqe, W. G. Seriously ill. Hardie, R. D., Major; Callan, J. 8., Lieutenant; j\rarghall, A. E. Iv., Lieutenant; Be-achen, F.; Bennett, G. V.; Clemens, R.; Dillon, P. E.; Gittens, J.; Stewart, M. A.; Weir, K. M., Temporary Corpojal; Marr, J. A. (improving). Removed from Seriously 111 List. Rick, H.; Taylor, IL; Worger, A. Severe Cases. GiWjosie, A. 8.. Lieutenant; Acothorpe, S. W.; Best, A. R; Collings, J. Ser-gc-a-nt; Funnell. S. W.; Gorxardij R., Lancecorporal; Hawker, E. T.; Hellyer, P. AV.; House, A.; Leahy, E.; lightfoot, W. H.; Milnor, A. J.; Nopai-e, li.; O'M'Oara, 3i.; Oxkty, H.; Simon, L.; Sissons, H. S.; Thorburn, W. F.; Thomson, A. 11. Not Ssvore Cases.

Heteto, Thom&s,( Lieutenant; M'lntyro, Hugh, Lieutenant; Lang, S. M., Second Lieutenant; Aitkeu, D. H.; Albert W.; Alexander, A. J. H.; Anderson, 1< , .; Bennett, S. E.; Bicgman, S.; Buchanan, J. A.; Byrne, J. 1 , .; Carroll, J. D. F.; Chambers, lr. IX; Cfisby, A. B.; Coll, H. J?.; Conj-al-ton, T. R.; Cooper, "W. E.; Ccugrovo, J. A.; Coulthiirt,- J. ; Greedy, P.; Cupplce, W. R; Dickson, D. A_; A.; Driiminond, J.; Dukes, W. H.; Duncan, E. P.; Eiinore, A. J.; Entwhistle, S. R.; Evans, J. 'I.; Fleet, iL F.; Green, It. G. L.; Groves, A. V.; Hi'Jligiur, R. IL, Corporal; Harden, L. G., Sergeant; Hardwicke, C. H., Coi-poral; Harwood, J. D.; Hewitt, J. 12.; Howoll, T. C.; HuEflice, F. A.; Hunt, J.; Hyland, F:; JuliiKui, H. V.; Lamb, M. J.; Loggitt, A. E., Corporal; Lyford, A. G. 1..; M'Donald, J.; MTDowall, C. IS.; M'Qnoid, M. T.; Moran, 1 , .; Morgan C.; ItoAhioson, H. B.; Milno, W. C; Moneur, W. G.; Mullin, W. P.; Niaylor, J. ; Keevo, A. A.; Ncill, It,; JJesbit, A.; O'Donohttp, J. W.; J/annpa, M.; Pay, K S.; Pennoll, 11. W.; Wioksford, R.; Pothani, W. A. J. ; Partoon, A., Corporal; Presland, A. W.; Qninn, R. K.; Ramsay, J. C.; Robertson, J.; Robertson, G. E.; Roy, W.; Rusk, H. W.; Russck, W. A.; Scott, C. A. E.; Sergeant, S. A.; Smith, S. A. J. ; Te Moamanui, S.; Thompson, I.; Wcet, J., Lnnoe-corporiil; Wostlantli, C. J., Lanco-oorporal; Whittukcr, \Y.; Williams, K L., Loruce-ooiporal; Willcoclt.l, L. K; Withera, R. C; Wood, D. S.; Wood, H. B.; Young, A. OVERSEA FORGES. The following casualties to monibcia of OveresJie Forces having n«ct-of-kin in Jifew Zealand were reported , oh Saturday lost: — IMPERIAL FORCES. Killed in Action. t . (Decembor 33.) Hancryside, T. F., LieuteDont (Mrs C. HJar.dyeidc, W'hangarci, wife). (January 1.) Spragg, W. N., Lieutenant (Mra Sprang, Mount Albert). Nugent, F. J., Corporal (F. NHigont, MaraoknJtaho). Prevloasly Reported Missing; now Rc> ported Prisoner of War in Germany. Ryan, V., Captain (A. L. Ryau, Hastings, brother). Wachs-orth, "W.. Socnnd. Lieutenant (W. Wadworth, Christchurch). Wonnded. Gibbe, H. J., Second Lieutenant fMirs Gibbe, 27 PortluncJ cresc-ent, Wellington, sister). HOSPITAL, R-QPORT3. Still Dangerously 111. Hannah, R. W., Major. Admitted to Hospital, Sick. Brooke, W. J., Captain. ATJSTRiAMAN FORCEiS. PrevionsJy Renortcd Musing; now Reported Killed *n Action. (May 3.) Barton, W. (Mrs Barton, Auckland , , mother). (October 4.) Richardson, H. K, C.S.M. (JErs Richardson, Wollingtaii, mother). (November 5.) Farky, T. C. (Rov. V. Farley, Hastings, fathcxt i

Missing. (January 4.) Parkinson, —■, Second Lieutenant (E. Parkinson, Auckland, father). Admitted to Hospital, Sick M'Bea-th, W. Lieutenant Hubert Philip Solomon, H.F.C.,' who was killed in action on the 19th , Octo- . her, was l>orn in Dunedin, and educated at Wellington College. He was well known : throughout the dominion as a commercial traveller, and before enlisting in the N./S.KF. in 1915 liad an indent agency in Clrristchtirch. lie saw .service in Egypt, and ?,'oing to England aiout October, 1916, got Jiia commission in the K.F.C. Two months later ho went to France us a pilot, and re- " niained there until April of this year,, when lie was appointed instructor in night flying in England. He was killed on the nighb of the' 10th of October while attacking a. j Zeppelin raiding tip oast of England, and was buried with military honours at Gainsborough. He ha 3 a brother, a- sergeant ill j the Canadian Expeditionary Force. Captain Noel John Hay G-avin, R.A.M.C., I M.C., and bar (Wellington), who died in France on the first of .November, met his ~ death as Uμ result of an accident. It ia understood that on the night of November 1, ; while riding up to the trenches along a , wooden road, his horse took fright, bolted, slipped and. fell, throwing- Captain Gavin ott to hia head and fracturing- his akull. Hβ died very shortly after reaching No. •21 Casualty Clearing Station, and he was buried! next day in. the local cemetery. Captain Gavin had boon ia England on leave, and . had only been back in France a few days before he met his death. It was while ia England on this last occasion that he received a bar to his Military Cross. Captain ,: Gavin had bean attached tor some considerable time to the 14th Royal Irish Rifles. | The news of his death was received at Boulogne by his brother, the Rev. Gordon! ' Gavin, cha-plain N.Z.E.F., who was on hia way to England. He was the fourth eon of the. late Mr J. C. Gavin and Mrs Gavin, of Wellington. ' . < Captain x\. T. Abraham, M.C., Manchester *, Regiment, the eldest son of the late Rev. ( | T. P. Abraham, rector of Risby, Suffolk, was killed in action on October 2'2, at the ago of 32. At one time Captain Abraham was farming in New Zealand, and he left the , dominion to take up land in Vagros Island, ~_ B.C. On the declaration of war he left his farm and joined the Canadian infantry as ai private-, so that he 3aw eervico very early in 1915. At the first battle of Ypres ha was badly gassed. Re-covering, he returned!.' to the front, remaining there until he was commissioned to the 3rd Manchester Begi- ' ment. In Juno of this year he was awarded, the Military Cross, the nest month he re-' ceived his first promotion*, and his captaincy was bestowed on liim ten days before he was killed. The colonel of hia battalion writes :i

■■j.'bero is eome consolation to be derived in th' 3 knowledge that he died a most gallant and noblo death, at tho bead of his ' company, Tiniversally loved and xeapected by all. Ai the beginning of this year Captain Abraham married Miss Ruth. Robinson, daughter of Lieutenant-colonel M. Robinson, C.M.G., late commanding officer of the Cape Mounted Police, South Africa.

Second Lieutenant P. E. Frankau, Rifloi Brigade, killed in action while attached to . tho Cameronians, was the second son of the lato "Fxa-nk Danby," the novelist. In 1911 he married Miss Francis Ulica de Burgh Miller, of Te Puke, N.Z.. liarly in his life Lieutenant Frankau gave up hJs scholastic career in order to dovotc himself to farming and exploration. Ho had travelled considerably, and finally had settled in Rhodesia, enlisting at the outbreak of the war in the Ithodesian Contingent,. Ho obtained his commission in April, 1915.

Corporal Neil Jl'Leodi Matbeeon, reported died of wounds, was the youngest son of Mr and Mre G. S. Matheson, Tyne i street, Roslyn. "Pat," as he was familiarly known, was educated at the Kaikorai School, and for several years was a clerk in th-e Railway Department at various Otago and Southland <■ stations. Corporal Matheson took a great interest in dtefence matters, and was an eathusiastio member of the Railway Engineers, in which he held commissioned rank. He went to Samoa with the advance- party, and, being invalided back, it waa some time before, he wae again fit for active service, -bufc eventually he got away with the 25th Re-,. inforoe-ments about nine months ago. Corl>oral Matheson's father served in the Maori . war, and hia three remaining brothers aio ; in khaki.

Lieutenant Douglas J. Aldridge, R.M.L.1., killed in action early in November, at thai ago of 33, was at one time engaged ia farn>> ing in New Zealand, but went k> the Malay) States in connection with rubber planting.. He was in Malay when war was declared. Throwing up bis work there-, he returned to* England, and obtained a commission in. the)' R.N. Division. Lieutenant Aldridgo was ink G<ilii.poli during most of the fighting, and? during the evacuation he was attached tan the divisional ammunition column. Nesty ho was eonfc to Salonika, but was sent to-' England on sick Jeave. It waa only after , , recovering his etrength that he traneferredl; to the R.M.L.1., with which he went to thei , iront. Hβ had been shot in tho leg during; , itction, and as ho was being helped to ccveE > a sniper' ehot him through the liead, dieathl ' bsing instantaneous. The CO. of his battalion writes: "' Such a. splendid fellow he was. I foel hk loss more than any of tha, others. He was commanding a company the • d\y of tho attack, and wonderfully well ha did it."