THE ROLL OF HONOUR

Otago Daily Times, Issue 17319, 20 May 1918, Page 2

THE ROLL OF HONOUR

NEW ZEALAND CASUALTIES. (P«B United Paraa Association.) WELLINGTON, May 18. The following list waa issued 10-dny. When the rank is not specified, tho soldier is a private, trooper, sapper, gunner, or rifleman, am the cftao luay bo:—Died from Wounds. RIFLE BIIIGADE. (.May 0.) BAILEY, ItOBKRT MANUEL (Mis J. Bailey, Mount Albert, mother). Wounded. AKTILLIuRy. (MaicJi 13.) PALMER, HAItOtLD HENRY (Mr C. Palmer, Ixmgburix, Ziit.her). Wiiwlti Slightly | Remaining with unit. CAxrEEßura r mounted. (April 30.) I>AILEY, STAN EE i.' EI4ANK (Mrs F. Bailey, Lower Riccarton, Christchurch, mother). JAMES EAVII> (Mx J. Douglas, Pleasant Point, brother). Tile following hospital and progress report was issued on Saturday: Net Severt Caco*. Bradley, J. W. (Otautuu); Goudie, P. (Inveicargill); liutciiinson, T. Jj\ iUuuedmj; Lebrun, P. A., Cor[>oi'u-1 (lnveruargiil;; Al'Dermid, A. M. A. (Dunedin); Pearoo, Corporal (Cavorsham); Porrin, \V. B. (Uuu-©d-in); Williamson, 11. (Oaniaaru). Major 1). White (Coast Defence Detachment) was gassed some time ago, and was sent to London. The latest cablo advice from inrn is to the afiect that ho is recovering rapidly and hopes to ba discharged from hospital within a lew days. G-unner Gordon D. Seay, killed in action, was a member of the stall' of tho National Mortgage and Agency Company when he enlisted with the Fourteenth Reinforcements. He was a brilliant lawn tennis player, among the many trophies secured by liim being that given for the Singles Championship of South Canterbury, played <it Asiiburton; another for the Doubles Championship of the United Tennis Club, with W. Gcss as partner, defeating the New Zealand champion holders; and another for the Canterbury Doubles Championship, with "the same part* n©r. .After the outbreak of war he won the 220y<13 championship at the Canterbury Show Grounds, and the 100 yds and 440 yds championship® in Wellington while training in Trentham. During the past winter he took a prominent part in the football competitions on the west front. ■D* Alexander Molesworth Tolhurst, M.Ii.C.S., L.IuC.P. (London), who was killed in action on the western front on the Bth inst., \vas a son of Mr G-. E. Tolh-urst, one of Wellington's best known and most respected citizens, and who was for many yours chief inspector lor New Zealand of th e Union Bank of Australia. l)x Tolhurst bom in Wellington in July, 1881, and was educated at Wellington College. He studied medicine at Guy's Hospital, London, and took his degree in 1906. Almost immediately after qualifying he received the' appointment of resident medioal offioer to a large agricultural settlement at, liomombo, near Assuan, Egypt. At the end of a year's service there he proceo Led to England, where hi took further medical degrees, and returned to Wellington in 1910, and practised his profession. He enlisted in May. 1915, for foreign service, and was diverted for duty to the hospital ship Maheno on her first commission, returning with the ship, and subsequently leaving again with the Maheno on her second charter as a member of the medical staff. Ho transferred from toe hospital ship to the Expeditionary Foroes in England, later going over to France. Di Tolhurst leaves a widow and two young cl-ildren, who are at present in England His brother, Lieutenant R. JVI. Tolhurst, barrister and solicitor, enlisted as a privet© in 1915, and is now an officer of tho No. 1 New Zealand Divisional <Employment Co'iiipany, on active service in France.