PERSONAL NOTES.

Otago Witness, Issue 3309, 15 August 1917, Page 19

PERSONAL NOTES.

Corporal, O. H. Green, Duncdin (died of wounds), was a son of Mr H. D. Green, of Braithwaites', booksellers, and was 28 years of age. He left with the Fourth Beinforcements. was accidentally wounded on Gallipoli, wounded at the Somme, and received the Military Medal for reopening the wells at Lens under fire. Private T>avid James M'Farlane (killed in action in France on July 8) was the eldest son of David and Margaret M'Farlane, of Papakura. He was 37 years of age, and served, in South Africa: Two brothers are at the front. Private William Leonard Bremner (reported killed while in action in France on June 13) was the only son of the late William Bremner, of Warrington He was born at Waikoikoi, and was 10* years of age, and left with the Eighteenth Beinforcements. Private JohF. Wilson (killed by an aircraft shell) was born at Flag Swamp, and passed through Otago University. He is the second of the sons of Mr D. Wilson to make the supreme sacrifice. Corporal Adam B. Madill, formerly a Presbyterian minister, 36 years of age, the son of a pioneer settler of Pukekohe, Auckland, previously reported missing, is now stated to have been killed In action. Ho was educated at Knox College, Dunedin, and was in charge of Whakatane prior to enlistment. The Bev. D. 0. Madill, of Stratford, is a brother. Lance-corporal James Marshall Allan (killed in action) was the eldest son of Mr and Mrs T. Allan, Opoho. He was in his twenty-second year. He left with the Engineers with the Fourth Reinforcements, and served on Clailipoli. Lieutenant Sarsfleld Clancy (wounded in the Messines battle) left with the Main Body. He was wounded in the Gallipoli campaign, and on going to France was awarded the Military Medal for bravery on the Somme. * Private Herbert Smith (wounded) was born at Eastern Bush, Southland, and left with the Ninth Beinforcements. Private Stanley George Pratt (wounded) is the fourth son of the late Mr James Pratt, of Biverton, and left with the Twenty-fourth Beinforcements. Lieutenant Norman M. Maclennan, a former head prefect of the Waitaki Boys' High School, was seriously wounded at Arras, a bullet passing through his neck. He was studying law at a Scottish University, when he gained a commission in the Cameron Highlanders. The Bev. 8. Griffith has received a cable message stating that his son, Lieutenant J. C. Griffith, who was reported as missing, is a prisoner of war at Karlsruhe.