THE ROLL OF HONOUR

Otago Witness, Issue 3234, 8 March 1916, Page 27

THE ROLL OF HONOUR

NEW ZEALAND CASUALTIES.

PREVIOUSLY REPORTED BELIEVED TO BE DEAD; NOW REPORTED KILLED IN ACTION. WELLINGTON BATTALION. Private 8. O. CHAPMAN. MISSING. ■WELLINGTON BATTALION. Private JAMES GBANT WILSON (next-of-kin in Hokitika). DANGEROUSLY ILL. WELLINGTON MOUNTED. Quartermaster-sergeant S. H. LODGE (in Walton Hospital, England). N.Z. BIFLE BRIGADE. Sergeant A. W. GALLAGHER, appendicitis, in Auxiliary Hospital, Isniailia. OUT OF DANGER. N.Z. BIFLE BRIGADE. Rifleman C. HARRIS, in loth General Hospital, Alexandria. WELLINGTON MOUNTED. Trooper H. CLARK, influenza and enteric. PROGRESSING FAVOURABLY. CANTERBURY BATTALION.—Private A. B. Stewart. DISEMBARKED AT MALTA. WELLINGTON BATTALION—CorporaI F. G. Henderson. N.Z. MEDICAL CORPS—Captain J. P. S. Leahy. IN N.Z. GENERAL HOSPITAL, PONT DE KOUBBEH. OTAGO MOUNTED.—Sergeant A. L. M'Clintock. OANTEEBUBY BATTALION.—Private C. Parsons. N.Z. FIELD ABTILLEBY.—CorporaI M. J. Fuller (endocarditis), Gamier B. H. Sayer (concussion). AUCKLAND BATTALION.—Private A. H. Bennett. AUCKLAND MOUNTED.—Corporal A. Smith. WELLINGTON BATTALION.—Privates F. E. Forbes and J. B. Ludwig. WELLINGTON MOUNTED.—Trooper E. G. Boyes. N.Z. BIFLE BBIGADE— Eifkman E. A. Sloan. N.Z. VETERINARY CORPS.—Trooper T. T. Lambert. CANTEBBUBY MOUNTED—Corporal A. F. Thorns. N.Z. FIELD ARTILLERY Gunner F. Finlav. MAORI CONTINGENT.—Private Makiwi Merriraati. ABMY SERVICE COEPS.—Driver T. G. Healy. ADMITTED TO WALTON HOSPITAL. Private G. Manders. NEW ZEALAND ENGINEERS—Sapper J. D.

Smith. NEW ZEALAND FIELD ENGINEERS (British Section). —Sapper E. A. Hodges. DIVISIONAL HEADQUABTEBS.—Private E. H. Kimberley. IN MILITARY HOSPITAL, FALMOUTH. N.Z. TUNNELLING COIiPS (Engineers).—Sapper B. Muoklow. NEW ZEALAND MEN. SYDNEY, March 2. The 148th casualty list includes the following Now Zealanders: — ILL.—Lieutenant Boyle (in hospital at Malta), Privates St. J. A. Horton, C. E. Batcman, W. J. Wilson, and P. Kitto (all at Ghezireh), A. 11. Davis (at Heliopolis), K. W. M'Knight and W. Q. Knowles (at Cairo).

RETURNED TO DOTY.—Privates H. Kernick and T. Butcher.

March 4. The names of the following New Zealanders are contained in casualty list No. 149 : KILLED IN ACTION, PREVIOUSLY REPORTED MISSING.—Lance-corporal A. M'Holm, Private C. 0. Strachey, Private H. G. Howlett. ILL. —S. Oliver (second occasion, in hospital at Montazah), Sapper H. S. Maxwell (Ghe/.ireh), Privates J. N. Perry, J. E. Haubon (Cairo), Private P. Kelly (Heliopolis). REPORTED OUT OF DANGER.—Private A. H. Davis. RETURNED TO DUTY.—rrivato S. C. Sirnrns.

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.

Private Paetaha Paora, Medical Corps, who died of disease, was 25 years of age, and a son of Paora Kohatu, of Waipahihi, Taupo, who fought against To Kooti in the Maori war. Prior to enlisting, he was engaged in farming operations in tlio Hawke's Bay district. He left New Zealand with the first Maori Contingent, was wounded, recovered, and returned to the front, finally contracting dysentery, from which he never recovered. Private Thomas O'Brien, Otago. was the son of Mrs Ellen O'Brien, of Janefield. He was educated at the Christian Brothers'. School. Dunedin, and left with the Main Body N.Z.E.F. in the Otago Infantry. Ho was posted as missing after the big attack on August 8, but advice recently received etates than the finding of a Court of In/quiry is that he was killed in action. Trooper F. Robinson, Otago Mounted Bifles, who died of disease, was tho son of Mr Alfred Robinson, .of Nightcaps. Ho was engaged as a waggoner at Mount Linton station for ovor two years, and owing to his happy nature became a general favourite

with employer and employees. When the appeal for recruits caine he was one of the first to volunteer from his district for the Main Expeditionary Force, and left to join immediately he made up hi 3 mind, not even waiting to collect his pay. Trooper Robinson was the first of about a dozen men who have gone to the front from Mount Linton, and he is the third to yield his life to the cause. Ho was. a fine specimen of young manhood; and aa a driver could do anything with a team.

Private William Leckie, Southland Mounted Rifles (wounded), was born a.t North-East Valley, and is a grandson of Mr Farquharson, of Signal Hill.