OVERSEAS FORCE

Otago Daily Times, Issue 24297, 14 May 1940, Page 8

OVERSEAS FORCE

THE THIRD ECHELON DRAFT FOR PAPAKURA DEPARTURE THIS MORNING A draft of 108 men of the third echelon of the Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force will leave this morning for Papakura Camp. The men will assemble at the railway station at 11 o'clock and will depart by the through express. The following are the names of the men leaving this morning:— Maori Battalion Witurora Duff. Hone Duff. Thomas Mutu Ellison, Tahu Brown Parata, Wiremu Rickus. Anti-tank Regiment Thomas Bruce Aitken, Leslie Johnstone Anderson, Jack Arnott, Frederick T. Blackledge, Thomas Scott Boyles, James Ivan Burrowes, William Lindsay Costello, William Rohy Cunningham, Leslie Davidson, John W. H. Duggan, Jack Fox, David S. W. Gillies, William P. Gourlick. George Albert Hansen, Sydney James Hastie, Lawrence Nolan Johnson, Gordon Kirkness, Leslie Osborne Naylor. Artillery Charles Eckhold, Callum Finlayson, Langdon Hardie Harris, Francis Maurice Hanccck, Richard Arthur Innes, William James Lennard, William Patterson Laing, Francis William Little, James Calder Miller. Edwin John Mills, George Thomas Mitchell, John McCaig. Hedley John McDonald, John Archibald McKay, Rodrick Drummond McKechnie, Eric Clarence Neison. Francis Stanley Oliver, Kenneth Walter Paterson, William George PauJl, Gilbert Porter. John Charles Reeves, James Walter Sell. James Sizemore, William John Smith. Richard Clifford Stevenson, William Henry Timms, Charles Martin, Weaver Tohill. James Alfred Whitson. Honi Lesley Wotton Reinforcements Raymond Agnew, Ronald Charles Allen, Cameron Armishaw. Ernest William Balloch, Joseph L. Braithwaite, George Royatt Bremner. Angus Hillard Brown, Benjamin Henry Brown, William Smith, A. Cummock, Eric Redmond Dawkins, Darwent Sydney Dodgshun. William Ernest Buxton, Russell John Calvert, George Roger Chance, Reginald Johnston Childs, Vernon Ransford Fenby, Roland Dick Gilchrist, Donald Bernard Hamilton, Hector James Hammond, Roy Allan Johnston, Colin Finlayson Macdonald, Roy Joseph Massey, Robert Allenby Milne, John Francis Mitchell, Wallace Harbin McArthur, Thomas William McFaul, John McLaren Stafford. William Walter Stringer, Harold William Taylor. Special Duties John James Bell (drivers 1.C.), Charles Edmond Dalwood (gun detachments), Leonard Alfred Fearn (technical storemen) Alan Clive Hoffman (signaller), Harley Ralph Homan (gun detachments), David Spalding Jackman (clerk), Charles Auburn Lawrence (drivers 1.C.). Humphrey Morris Jones (drivers I.O.RalphWaterhouse Markham (drivers 1.C.), Alexander Arthur Mawhinney (drivers 1.C.), Wilton Bernard Newall (drivers 1.C.), Peter Nicolson (gun detachments), John Graham Norman (clerk), Terence G. B. Pennell (gun detachments), Desmond Lothian Percy (orderly), William John Peterson (motor mechanic), Joshua Raymond K. Pope (signallers), Gordon Spence Sanderson (trumpeter-signal-ler), Arthur Jackson Smith (drivermechanic), Robert Smith (driver-me-chanic), Sydney Charles Smith (orderly), Alexander G. Thompson (trum-peter-signaller), James Angus Thomson (signallers), Alfred William Tull (clerk), John David Whipp (drivermechanic), James Wintrup (butchery duties), Raymond Lorraine Wright (signallers). LATEST REGISTRATIONS NINE ENLISTMENTS YESTERDAY Nine registrations were received at the local army office yesterday for service in the overseas force. The following are the enlistments:— Group 2 (Single men) Alan Vivian. John Simon Parker. Cecil Henry Baddock. Gilbert James Lewis. George Edward Maurice Healey. Edward Henry Schlaadt. Robert Lyall Coombes. Group 4 . (Married men with children) Robert Pinney.