ROLL OF HONOR.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 14213, 2 February 1917, Page 4

ROLL OF HONOR.

■-.'. • — Trooper Leslie Walter Gibbs, killed iv action on 'January 9th, at -Rafa^ was the only son of th, e late Mrs. .L Gibbs, of ; Chi"iptcTiui r cli, and' was 23 years of ag^ '.Trooper Gibbs, who left Ohristichurch with the Ist .Canterbury Mounted Riflep (Main Body), saw service ..at GalUpolj, .where he was wounded. He then>T>p.turned to Egypt, . where he. remained .until h|s death. Previous ,<t*> hl*> enlistment ho had been employed .by his. brother-in-law,; Miv A. Lock, fOrmeiv ly of.BurwoQd. . • ...'■,' . „„ Trooper JDave Curry Missen^ of Frankton, killed' at Raia, on January 9th, spent hjs eai'ly. life m Akorria His father was Clerk of the Court at Akajroa./for ,many"; years: . Trooper Missen was educated at the Ajwoa school, and was practically .grown-up when the famI ily left. Though over military age he joined one of wio .reintorcements. . ;. ; '-■ News has • been^receiiyed. by. ;his relatives of N the: deatht m action 'on September 30th of Trooper Thomas M. c ton, formerly o£ Waihola (who wag'.pre^ vionsly reported missing: aflor ..the Somme offensive) Trooper, Yorston .received his education at the. Wailini^ school, and' the .".. Tokomajxiro- High School. "He, joined the New Zealand Railway staff : about ten years ago, and v/as -stationed at Inglewood a'lj . ibsi time of las' enlistment with the Ayckliand sCQ; tion of the 7th Reinforcements. . ; Much regret was . felt m. the, Wayer, ley district when news was received' that Sergeant Ewan Elmslie had succumbed to .wounds received. Gi;eat sympathy is felt for Mr. and Mrs. Emslie and family m. this second bereavement, Major Elmslie having been killed at Gaijippli. . -„'• ';.. . , a Ciiptaih J. : Gf. McCallum ". '{dipd, ( of wp'unds pnJanuafy.il), was the second son v Q.f the." Rev. K. McCaUum,' of Clirist. dhurc^i. . He). was born 26 years ago, and ; was educated at. -.the Aldington school, CJhristchui'ch Boys' , High , and . o.t Canterbury College. In his last year at the High School he was captain of the eade,tß., After leaving school lie obtained d commission m the Christchurch. City Rifles.- He held this commission for a number of; j years . untiL he left; for Motueka, wherof h« joined the Tenth Nelson Squadron of the.^Canterbury JMounted Rifles m whiclv, lie became lieutenant:.:!: ■•■■'. Priori to enlisting ;, with; , the Third . Reinforcements, he ww employed by Mr .lEaston. solicitor, -of '\ Motueka'. : Capt&in McCallum, prior to leaving for the, front, passed his .final examination as a solicitor.