ROLL OF HONOR.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 14191, 8 January 1917, Page 4

ROLL OF HONOR.

. ■ - - . • -'n' -' - Among those ift hosp'ital whose cast* are reported as not" severe are the foi lowing froih Gisborno: H. Puru, and Bugler E. J. Roche ■"PfiVfite Albert Jaines Begbie, previously "reported wounded, n6w reported killed in actibli in Franco oh Septembei 15, was 27 years of age, and the third ,sbh bfyMr. and Mrs. 'Begbie, ofyPukck&he Ea^t. - Prior 16 enlisting hie ; a i*bad- contractor for tbe Franklin County Co'dftcil. ••"■"■ '•■ H. J. Poole, prisonei* of war in No. 1 Hospital, Parchim, Mckl^ii-bUrg-*Sch'\\verih, Germa'ny, left with the 9th" ■ Reirffof'iiements'; 'arid served for some in France. He was wbhndfcd and^tlLkeli prteoner on' Septefflber 21." For some time he was reported killed in action; but! a" lator official report states that "he is a prisoner of war. Before enlisting Private' Pdold yyas foreman for Messrs' <). Aickeh" and Son, Ltd., tim-, ber-^riieicharits, Gisbbrne. ,v He caihe from TaWSnia soihe years'- ago} 1 ' whfere Vhis pieopW^till. reside. '■• ' ! * -Priyatti'LavPi'fence Pitkethley, who lert with the sth>" Reinforcements, ahd was' Ohiß 'oi -the r survivors of the Marquette disastor,^iS' how sufferuig from* 5 trench' ffeVfer. yPriyate Pithkethley is the "eldest of 'three 'sbns : <*f 'Mrs Pitkethley; of Cimmmer road, Grey'V'Lynn, all on- active service in Fiance. Private Archie Oanipbell Hall, of ihe Medical Omj)^ 22nd Reinforcements, who 'died from r meningitis at the Featherstort military hospital, was the eldest ! sb)ix)f Mrar-M.; Ef-Ball^of Hmitiy, and 27 yfears of ag*l " Always an ertth'usiastio 'member *of '-the -St. John ' Ambulance, he "joined 'Medical Corps. Private Ha.ll "was a Ibvertif sport, • and an -active member of the "Hnhtly Rowing Club: l Bfefbre- jbiniiig the 22nd"Rein- v forcements be "was eMployed aa a 1 porter on the New' Zealand railways. ' :/ .' Neftrsy fbllowing on the f^legraphic advice 'bf his' d£ath, oh Steptembier 15,- has been rfeceived^by Mrs W66d, of Russell. Cprpoi&l Wood enlistedYMth'the *9th Reinforoertiente, &tA was' twice wounded . in one 7<Sharge; while being carried to the dresfeingt statibh! -he was killed through- the bursting'of a shell. Prior to eJUistm'eftt 1 Corporal Wocid was' engaged in farming. 'He wks the fourth son of Sirs Wood, and 26 years of age. Private' ®. -P^ Jonkers, previously reported" wounded, missing, "and 4 now killed -in action;'' came' iio -New Zealand from Brisbane 1 in his early youth.- 1 He was - engaged- 1 fin • farming ; at ' Riverhead prior ta-.ehlistment With* the 12th Reihiorcemehtstat Auckland -, and '6n active service was drafted ifltb the' Cahr^erburyrß4ttjllion. "T^o^^ons^bf the 'late Pli-ra.te Jonkers-are aliso x^ti i ''activ'e sei" vicei-Mbne^of Whom is reported -wounded. Amongst' those reported > killed in . action on December 23 was Sergt. Ruddolph Gratdn' Cooke, iroh of Mrs G. S. Cooke, of Richmond, Nelson. Sergt." CopKe was a 1 piipil of -Nelson College and after leaving • school entered the Marine Department at Auckland, subsequently* coming to this district to take up station life, beirig employed by Mr Rennef and also by Sir Gl&ssfbrd. ''■ , ■•>'"'■ ■ As- 'the 1 Tesult of a Court of Inquiry Private Murray Mackenzie, previously reported nrissuig, is' now reported killed . in 'i action, His -next of kin is ' Mrs '■ Mi--Mackenzie, Nuhaka. ■"■'•■" Private* Cland D. von J3lai*ambdi*g (killed ih action) was a son r of Mr and Mrs 1 H.'-von- Blaramberg,*of Amesbury street, Palmerfcton North. Deceased went into- camp a year 'ago as a''mem J ber of the Wellington Infantry ' Battalioh, subsoquently- 1 . going to the front with his reinforcement: He was born in Palniierfclbri' North 'about 36' years ago, and spent ,his ymith there, making mahyfriendfi by hi&v genial, 'unashWnv ing manner.'-' Later he" took up farthing, and; *whetn he eiilisted was engaged .in agricultural pui*suits on th& Main' Trunk line. ■/•■■-■ .-'-' ■■-■ - ■:'■■-' ■■- " ; ' '■' ' : * ;