FOURTEEN DEATHS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 24608, 16 May 1941, Page 6

FOURTEEN DEATHS

EXPEDITIONARY FORCE LATEST LIST OF CASUALTIES TWO DUNEDIN MEN WOUNDED (P.A.) WELLINGTON. May 15. The following additional casualties to members of the 2nd New Zealand Expeditionary Force were reported today:— KILLED IN ACTION Private Laurence Brian Bosworth; father, Mr' L. A. Bosworth, Opunake. Private Herbert Henry Burgess; mother, Mrs L. Burgess, Mangamaire, Pahiatua. Sergeant John Stanley Horton Dring; wife, Mrs A. D. Dring, Masterton. Sergeant Thomas Logie; wife, Mrs C. D. Logie, Lower Hutt. Private John O'Brien; mother, Mrs Putu O'Brien, Te Puke. Lance-corporal Allen Edward O'Neill; father, Mr E. H. O'Neill, Temuka. Lance-corporal George Murray Sandiford; father, Mr G. V. H. Sandiford. Waitotara. Private John Ross Tustin; mother, Mrs A. M. Tustin, Wellington. Private Douglas Wilson; wife, Mrs M. Wilson, Wellington. Lieutenant Nigel Reay McKay; father, Mr C. McKay, Waipu. Private Francis Charles Bloxsome; father, Mr F. H. Bloxsome, Auck-

land. Private James Andrew Green; mother, Mrs W. Hanson, Bluff. Lance-corporal Norman Ernest Lovell; father, Mr E. A. Lovell, Inglewood. DIED OF WOUNDS Private James Collingwood; friend, Mr J. J. Crab, Matamata. PRISONER OF WAR Private Reginald Henry Powell; wife, Mrs E M. Powell, Hawera. WOUNDED (OTAGO) Private David George William Smyth; mother, Mrs I. K. Smyth, Dunedin. Private John James Tregea; wife, Mrs E, C. Tregea, Tahuna, Dunedin. (OTHER DISTRICTS) Lieutenant-colonel Hugh Graeme Carruth; mother, Mrs M. E. Carruth, Wainui, Whangarei Captain William Richard Kimmitt Morrison; father, Mr William Morrison, Auckland. Private Thomas Harold Douglas Clark; mother, Mrs Jessie Clark. Waimate.

Private Jack Cockroft; wife, Mrs H. Cockroft, Upper Hutt. Gunner Henry Edward Denyer; wife. Mrs P. V. Denyer, Auckland. Sergeant Douglas Gordon Dillon; mother, Mrs E. A. Dillon, Otane. Private Douglas Lloyd George; father, Mr A. George, Moturoa. Driver Arthur William Hearn; mother, Mrs Eliza Hearn, Waihi. Private William- Arthur Johnson; father, Mr G. W. Johnson, Lumsdcn. Private Alexander George Leslie Lambert; mother, Mrs M. Lambert, Hawera'i Private Charles Stewart Lovett; brother, Mr W. J. Lovett, Aramoho. Corporal Christopher John McCarthy; wife, Mrs A. E. McCarthy, Auckland. Corpora] Harold Marshall; wife. Mrs H. M. Marshall, Auckland. Lance-sergeant lan Brown Munro; brother, Captain A, Munro, North Head, Auckland. Private George Henry Peacock; brother, Mr E. Peacock, Hihitahi. Private Charles Adair Pistor; mother, Mrs E. Pistor, Gisborne. Sapper Stanley Barrington Reitman; father, Mr A. Reitman, Thames. Sapper Roger William Turner; Mrs N. J. Patrick, Christchurch, relationship not slated. Private Sydney Alexander Wright; father, Mr W. C. Wright, Mangere. Second-lieutenant Sidney George Lyle Smythe; father, Mr W. S. Smythe, England. Sergeant Frederick Borrows; mother, Mrs J. C. A. Borrows, England. Private Hank Cairney; mother, Mrs J. Cairney, Canada. Private Albert Mitchell Dobson; wife, Mrs I. A. M. Dobson, Whangarei. Sergeant William Bruce Myers Freney; next-of-kin (relationship not stated). Mrs T. S. Hower, Auckland. Lance-corporal Edwin Mitchelson Taylor; sister, Mrs Z. Higgins, Auckland. Lance-sergeant Clifford Bruce Wallace; father. Mr J. A. Wallace, Auckland. AIR FORCE The following Air Force casualties were announced to-day:— Sergeant James Clark Cattell, R.N.Z.A.F.. now reclassified as missing and believed killed; mother. Mrs M. E. Cattell, ,43 Messines road. Karori. Sergeant Basil Alexander Walker, E.N.Z.A.F., killed on air operations; mother. Mrs K. Walker, 39 Cameron road, Napier. v Sergeant Norman Franklin Dixon, R.N.Z.A.F., killed on air operations; father. Mr C. Dixon. 138 Earn street, Invercargill. Pilot Officer Norman Mervyn Kebbell Kirkcaldie, R.N.Z.A.F., missing on air operations; mother, Mrs N. Kirkcaldie. 80 Hobson street. Wellington. DISCHARGED FROM HOSPITAL Major James M. A. Samson, whose name was included in the list of wounded published yesterday, has now been discharged from hospital. This welcome news was received by his relatives yesterday morning.