PERSONAL NOTES.

Otago Witness, Issue 3214, 20 October 1915, Page 52

PERSONAL NOTES.

_Mr Joseph Braithwaite has received advice that his son Horace, who was wounded in the head at an early stage in the operations at Gallipoli, and who was dangerously ill for some time, has been invalided home. He is on board a transport which is due in New Zealand towards the end of the month. Private Eric Braithwaite, another son of Mr Joseph Braithwaite, who was slightly wounded at Gallipoli, suffered severely from shock as the result of a shell bursting close to him. He was sent to a hospital in England, but has now received permission to leave the institution and stay with his sister (Mrs Manson) in London. News was received on Saturday by Constable Gundin, Upper Hutt, of the death of his brother, S. II ,T. Gundin,' in action at the Dardanelles (says the Wellington Post}. Deceased was attached to the Naval Brigade. He was a fine stamp of man, being one of a family all over six feet in height. His death will be regretted by all who knew him. The constable also has in one of the London hospitals a brother who is suffering from wounds. Word has just been received from Sergeant D. J. Walls and Private E. M. Walls (whose parents reside in Mosgiel) that they are in the same hospital in Cairo—the for mer through illness and the latter through a shrapnel wound in the head. Both were progressing favourably when the advice was sent. They speak very highly of the attention given to the sick and wounded, especially by the Now Zealand doctors and nurses. Mr D. Thomson, of City road, Roslvn, has received information that his son. Trooper Hugh Lament Thomson, of the Otago Mounted Rflos, is returning wounded and invalided on the Willochra. This is the first intimation that Mr Thomson has had of his son b n ing hurt. It is noteworthy that another son was wounded at the landing on April 25, and Mr Thomson received no word till he was better and back at the base. Mr M. Allen, Main road, North-East Valley, has received cable advico that his two sons aro sick in the Egyptian Army Hospital, Pont de Koubbch, Cairo. The residents of Port Chalmers crowded the Town Hall to overflowing on the 18th for the purpose of entertaining Messrs D. A. H. M‘Lachlan, lan M‘Lean, O. Syron, N. D. Dougan, L. Booth, and C. Booth at a send-off social, prior to their departure for Trentham to-day. Word has been received by his parents, who reside in Christchurch, from Corporal E. P. Gray, of the Otago Battalion, who was reported wounded on August 26, that he was in the Pont de Koubbeh Hospital on August 29, suffering from a septic knee, but otherwise well. He was wounded in the big advance on August 6 to 10. Private cable advice has been received from Carmarthen that Captain Hugh Short, of Dunedin, is recuperating in Wales, and is feeling more fit every day. A letter has been received from Corporal Ryburn, dated August 16, informing his relatives that he is back again in the firing line after a short illness. The doctors were of opinion that ho had appendicitis, and were going to operate. However, when they were informed by Ryburn fhat his appendix had been removed before leaving Now Zealand, they concluded that tho trouble was of a less serious nature, and that it would not bo necessary to operate. SERGEANT WARWOOD. Sergeant Charles Alfred Warwood, of the Ambulance Corps, New Zealand Main Expeditionary Force (died of enteric at Mudros on October 2), was 23 years of age. He was educated at the Normal School. He joined the staff of the Otago Daily Times as night reader, and was afterwards employed in Ross and Glondining’s warehouse, leaving there for tho Otago Farmers’ Co-operative Association. On leaving Dunedin for Christchurch, bo was employed by Messrs W. Strange and Co. He was a keen Association football player. He has three cousins at tho front, and two others have enlisted. ACCIDENTALLY KILLED. WELLINGTON, October 12. Mr Harold Beauchamp lias received nows that his only son, Leslie Heron Beauchamp, was accidentally killed in France last Thursday. He held a in the Bth Battalion, South Lancashire Regiment, and had only recently gone to France, after serving eight months’ training in different parts of England. Lieutenant Beauchamp was a native of Wellington, was 21 years of age, and was educated at tho Waitaki Boys’ Fish School. Before he left Wellington for London last Christmas Eve, he was in the office of Messrs W. M. Bannatyno and Co Ho was a very popular young man. WOUNDED IN FRA.NCE. WELLINGTON, October 12. Mr W. T. Jennings, M.P., received a cablegram to-day from the Secretary of the War Office, London, informing him that bis son, Second Lieutenant W. W. Jennings, of the Royal Field Artillery, was, slightly wounded in tho, severe fighting in France on October 4, and has been admitted to the Dublin Castle Hospital. Lieutenant Jennings was an Auckland boy.