ON SERVICE

Otago Daily Times, Issue 17634, 26 May 1919, Page 6

ON SERVICE

(From Ottb Own Coeeespoitdemt.) Maroh 25, 1919,

lieutenant B. A. Woods, formerly sergeant in the Auckland Mounted Rifles, has returned to England from Imperial service with the Armoured Car Brigade with the Dunster force in Persia and Baku. Lieutenant Woods was a member of the Main Body, ana since leaving the N.Z.E.F. at the end of 1916 has been with the armoured cars at the following fronts: Persia, Galicia, Rumania, Mesopotamia, and Russia. Sergeant W. B. Bridger, A.S.C. (Dunedin) is in the 53rd General Hospital, in France, suffering from influenza. He has served throughout the war. - Engineer-lieutenant D. F.' Banchop, R.N., expects to leave for New. Zealand in May. In the early days of tho'war he was doing duty with the Ministry of Munitions, then he was appointed to the Navigation School at Portsmouth after a special course of training in mines; and at tho beginning of 1918 he was transferred to the D.T.M. department of the Admiralty, later becoming assistant to the manager of mining depots. Staff Nurse W. ML White, T.F.N.S., has left the 56th General Hospital, France, and is at present in London.

Engineer Snb-lieutenant G. H. Hingston, RiST.R. (Gisborne), who has been on"duty in the Baltic for some time, is now in home waters. He has. been promoted second engineer.

Sergeant W. O. Harrington /Wellington), who was with, the 16th Howitzer cattery and later with the 2nd Brigade A.mmmiiuon Column, -will return to New Zealand by the Carpentaria early in ApriL Sister Daisy S. Brown, Q.A.I M.N.SK. (formerly of Waipukurau), Lis heen demobilised after three years' service. Part o£ the time she was at the Military Hospital at York, and for the last ve&r lias been in France. Sister Brown will return home at an early date. She was at the Timaru Hospital from; 1912-1915. Captain H. J. T. Marshall, R.N., formerly senior officer on the New Z-jalind station, is at present commanding the B N College at Keyham. The cadets there 73 of whom have just passed out, are jci-i-xtr the cruiser Carnarvon, and will bo ac' -ea for the next 18 months.

Mr Fred K Moore (Wellington) has been demobilised, and proposes entering .mo Lu-i ness in, Bradford. Mr Moore,' was ~t one time connected with the New Zealand Times, was in England when the wnr broke out, and joined up as a trooper :n the 2nd King Edward s Horse, with whom, he has been, through, the war. Captain F D. Farrow (CSiristchurch! of the Cavalry Corps Headquarters, BE F k being demo Wised Way. He will remain m iiii gland for some time. Mr James Davidson (Wellington) joined up with the N.Z.M.C. at the beginning of the war, and served in Egypt and Gallipoli He was a casualty at. Gallipoli and after', wards .went with his unit to France There again, he was invalided to Walton-on-I names, and on going back to New Zealand was drasharced. After two months of civftem life h© worked his passage to England in a Shaw. Savill, and Albion liner and re-enlisted in the R.A.M.C., with which he has since been 'serving. He is now at the Trent Bridge Hospital, Nottingham. Cafptam Sfcncurt J. Reid, forn>erly of the Scottish Horse, but now in the R.A.F., has reached England after serving almost'continuously for three years in the East. Joining the Scottish Horse at the beginning of the war, he got his commission as a lieutenant from a cavalry school at Aldershot, in 1915, and proceeded with his regiment to Gallipoli, where he served until the eraettation._ Going then to Egypt he was in Sinai, Palestine, and the Hedjaz. He was one of a party of 12 flying officers who were sent in the early days of the war to form a contact with the. King of the Hedjaz. and he had many very interesting experiences there. The historic surroundings of Arabia and the Red Sea. gave him plenty of scope for purging his artistic work which was interrupted by the war, and Captain Beid is likely to publish, at an early date, an illustrated volume on the campaign in Arabia. He will return to the East in the middle of April to obtain further. material. ■ Captain Reid was married some time ago in Egypt to a Belgian lady.

Sirb-lienteriants F. V. Carpenter and G E. Laycock, R.N.V.R., are promoted lieutenants. Mr Carpetner comes from Kawa Kawa, and was a gunner in the N.Z F \ •until being transferred to the Admiralty Mr Laycocfc comes from Auckland, and was transferred from the Auckland Regiment in the same month. , ' Captain C. W. R. Royds, R.N.. who was with one of Capfcun Scott's expeditions to tho South Pole, has been appointed to H.M.S. Arrogant. Captain M. E. W. Fitzgerald, Royal Engineers (eldest son of the late Mr W. C. Fitzgerald, of Wellington) is expecting shortly to be demobilised, and then he wlil go out to New Zealand to practise as a civil engineer. Captain Fitzgerald enlisted in the Royal Engineers in 1914, and shortly after received his commission. He is now Staff Officer to fh© Chief Engineer, sth Corps. At the age of 17 he enlisted in Now Zealand for the South African wa*serving with the Seventh Contingent. In 1904 he came to England with his father and took up civil engineering. His sister Sister EU«sn FitzGerold—■served with the N.Z. Stationary Hospital in France. His brother Jan joined up in England and w.as wounded last year; his brother Gerald served with tho New Zealand THvision while Roy was killed last vcar after transferring from the OWrecter Regiment, to the R.A.F. Previously the last-named had been wounded and captured, but he maiaged to escape from Germany and returned to England.