LATER REPORT.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 14284, 28 April 1917, Page 3

LATER REPORT.

REPORTED KILLED IN ACTION

Gunner 0. F. Bowe,

HOSPITAL AND PROGRESS BEPORT.

Not* reported" as "severe cases : Private J. Aeosta, Private VF. "J". Rolfe, Riflenuui E. Wiggins, Trooper J. H. Williams, Privtae p. Wv.lpam' Vet. -Sergt. G. -B. J. Witts. - ;■' • ■ '>• . .'■■ ';,. . V,

Condition the. .Same ■ :' Private J. Dunn, Private P; Heath*. ' Progressing satisfactorily :' Private L. J. Gilmour,- Gunner ""S."*'S. Lorrimer, Larioe-corporal BVR. DV Turner, Gunner R. g. wild. •;;;:: Px Improving : Private J. E. Baker. Convalescent : Rifleman F. S. Cotterill, Private C. Gardiner, Tem.-Sergt. W. J. Hopkins,.. Private- T. H.- Watte, Sergeant J. Slade. .. ,

Among the New" Zealanders who were recently reported (on "--he,, finding. of the Court of Enquiry) to- have been killed m action was Trooper Alex. Stevens, second son of Mr and 1 Mrs Stevens, Fox street", have received official information of the sad news. Trooper Stevens, who was previously reported as missing, was well ■'known, m .Gfebarne, being one of three brothers who responded .to the Empire's call from Gisborne. He was employed^ at the.. Gisborne Freezing , Works when he. -enlisted, with th^-.l3th' Reinforcements. Trooper* Stevens served two A-ears in -. "the..E.-C.-M.'R. The news of his death will bfc "received with deep regret by a wide circle' of friends, and much sympathy will"'* 'be felt forv the parents and relatives. .. '

Mr F. Keetley $ Cliristchurch, has received advice that^hi^ jbrother, Private H. J. ; Keetley,. serving- with the Australian Forces, was. killed m aotion m Fiance on March 'B7th r'^Priy ate H. J. Keetley, wh.o was 48 years of age, waa born m Kaiapoi, and resided t'We the greater part of his life* After being rejected four, times for ihe New Zealand Forces, he went to Sydney, where he joined the AuStfalilth mounted force. Hei also saw yservice m the South African war. ■ '.-

Advice was.. -received m Nelson by cable ythat Flijj^-Lifcutenant J. H*. Cocic is missing. Lieutenant .Cock enlisted m the Main Body, and was seriously Wund-ed-ori Gallipoli. -Ott"his J recbvery he reenlisted and* left New "Zealand -with a later reinforcement draft for France, wherev he- was : again- wounded., Qn, receiving, his dwchaxge^from the New Zealand Expeditionary Force he. entered the Flying Service, and has been m Franca again- for some tf^el-'X' „ - * "'.-■'

E. Ballard DaUby, R..N";R., a-p^^jsing"j_^6y? Zes^d- officer, and an . extra-masteij of the Port of London, was'x killed iri.^ action at 'sea, on, .. ,MBffc"h"lß last, probably at ;the time of ,ihe Germ.an^aid.;<sh Rtfrosgatev Senting all i throU«rh *H.M. S. '■Garmani&'s . commission, and following the sinking by thab vessel of— the- Oa-p Trafalgar, soon after war brpke out, he rose -to. be second m comi*'-^ e transferred tea -wr-Skipj* Pre-riousiy thft iate lieutetuwifc had seen considerable service under the New Zealand Shipping _C*Wpamy, which he? left; himself at the Admiralty. A brief "while ago he waa married m London to Dr Marjorie Middleton, niece;*' d£ 'Sir- ■Johih.V'Middleteh. Ser-jeant-Major Charles Dajby, of the Main Exipisdit"iOnary^KSr^,;w_Bt Wellington Battalion^ since ; invalided home to New Zealand, is a of the deceased, ►and ymei ylpm jrhjja, jn, "England. There are other 'relatives' m North CJarjiterbury.