NON-COMMISSIONED OFFICERS.

Otago Witness, Issue 3215, 27 October 1915, Page 29

NON-COMMISSIONED OFFICERS.

Sergeant-major C. S. Mahoney (wounded) was a member of the Utago Machine Gun Section, and left with the Main ExpeditionOfVy Force. He saw active service in Africa, first as a member of the YorkLancastcr Regiment, then of Kaaff s Rangers, Rhodesian Horse, and South African Constabulary, and holds medals of the Matabele war and rebellion and the Boer war. Sergeant D. R. Carter (killed in action) was the youngest son of Mr D. T. and Mrs E. M. Carter. He was educated at Hazelburn and Waitaki High Schools, and was a member of the South Canterbury Mounted Rifles. Ho joined the Third Reinforcements as private, and was promoted sergeant in Egypt. Sergeant Angus Macdonald (who died of wounds) was born near Wanganui on November 10, 1892, and removed, with his parents, to the, Sommervill Settlement at the ago of 18 months. He was educated at Mataroa School, and in early youth took a keen interest in the Territorial movement. .Ho never missed a drill or a parade until he left for the front. Sergeant Robert Craig, Otago Mounted Regiment, Southland Rifles (who died at Gallipoli of enteric, was a son of Mr John Craig, the Bush, Caroline, and was born at Dipton, and received his education at Caroline School and Lumsden District High School. On leaving school ho started work on his father’s farm, continuing there till within a few months before the outbreak of war, when ho, with a younger brother, got a farm for themselves near Dipton. At the first call for volunteers, he left the farm in his brother and father’s care, and joined the Main Expeditionary Force. Sergeant Craig was a member of the Territorials, in which he rapidly gained promotion. The news of the death of Sergeant Stanley Joseph Bowker (killed in action at Gallipoli) will be received with regret in and kbout Timaru, whore lie was educated at the Main and High Schools. Sergeant Bowker was a very robust and hearty man, 23 years of age. Ho was prominent in school athletics, and was a strong swimmer. He also went to Lincoln College, having decided to follow agricultural pursuits. On leaving the college ho accepted an engagement with Mr John Withell, working first on the latter’s Otipua and Ealing properties, and when the war broke out ho was in charge of Mr Withcll’s Wairoa estate, Hawke’s Bay. Prior to going to the North Island he had been a member of tho South Canterbury Mounted Rifles, in which body ho enlisted with the rank of corporal. PRIVATES. Private Charles Stuart Kelly, of the Otago Infantry Battalion (who _ was wounded at Gallipoli shortly after his recovery from a serious attack of enteric), is one of the considerable band of journalists who wont to the front soon after the outbreak of war, He was born in Auckland 33 years ago, and is the third son of Mr J. Liddell Kelly, a well-known veteran journalist, and brother of Mr J. Stuart Kelly, of tho Christchurch Press. Charles S. Kelly has done journalistic work in Wellington, Dunedin, Blenheim, and Gisborne, and when he enlisted held a position on the Stratford Post. Swimming was his chief outdoor pursuit, and his hobbies were music and poetry, in which he displayed distinct talent. Private George Herbert Glenny, of the Wellington Infantry Battalion (who died of pneumonia at Mudros, Lemnos Island), was the third son of Mr and Mrs J. Glenny, of Kingslancl, Auckland. He was a native of Auckland, and was born at Avondale. Prior to his enlistment he was in the employ of the Union S.S. Co., in -whose service he had been engaged for a number of years. Private W. M. Clarkson, Otago Battalion (wounded), is a son of Mr W. Clarkson, of the Dunedin Railway Station. Ho was horn at Palmerston and educated at the Fovbury School, Dunc.din, and High School, Greymouth. Private George Hammond (wounded) is a son of Mr Henry Hammond, gardener, Limehills. Ho was born in Limehills, and is 28 years old. He went to sea, but at tho time he enlisted ho had been in the North Island for four or five years. He left with the Third Reinforcements. Private Arthur Collie (dysentery) is 21 years of ago, tho youngest son of Mr Win. Collie, Highgato, Roslyn, and was educated at Albany Street School and Boys’ High School. He> was a member of tho Zingari Football Club, and loft with the Main Expeditionary Force. Advice has been received that he is in tho Alderney Hospital, Liverpool. Private A. B. Doidge, 12th Nelson Company, who is reported to have died of enteric fever, was born at Stoke, Nelson, 21 years ago, and was tho only son of Mr j. B. Doidge. Ho saw active service at the Suez Canal engagements, and was also throe months in tho firing lino at Gallipoli. He left Now Zealand with tho Main Body. Trooper Arthur F. Young (wounded, now in tho New Zealand Hospital in England) was a member of the Eighth Otago Regiment, and loft with the Main Expeditionary Force. Hie brother, Charles D. Young, has again had to leave tho trenches, and hao been sent to Birmingham suffering from a septic knee. Trooper R. T. Mead, 10th Nelson Regiment, who died of pneumonia at Mudros, was 27 years of ago, and a son of Mr Hubert Mead, of Motupiko, Nelson. 110 enlisted in the Main Expeditionary Force, and left Egypt for the front with the first mounted men. Ho took a keen interest in cricket in Nelson, and was ono of the best hats in tho district at the time of enlisting. He was a member of the team that toured tho North Island a few years ago, and has played against Marlborough on many occasions. Ho also played against tho Australians in their recent tom* of New Zealand. Private S. Warren is tho youngest son of Mr W. Warren, Mattamondnra. New South Wales, and brother of Mr E. Warren, Cfentral Otago representative of Messrs Reid and Gray. He was reported wounded at tho Dardanelles landing, and after having recovered in England, has returned to tho front.