ROLL OF HONOR

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 14572, 6 April 1918, Page 5

ROLL OF HONOR

.__». ___. KILLED IN ACTION. 2nd-Lient. D. Paterson (Tarata). DIED OF WOUNDS. Major C. L. Sommerville (Okoia). WOUNDED. Major C. R. Spragg (Gisborne). Lieut. A. G. ft. Crawford (Pahiatua). Wounded, admitted to hospital : Rflm A. A. Piggolea- (N.S.W.). HOSPITAL AND PROGRESS I REPORT. j WELLINGTON MILITARY DISTRICT. j Dangerously ill : O. T. Bentley (John- [ sonville), Sergt. C. H. Dinnie. (Welling- ! ton), G. E. Fitchett (Wellington), L. I Lundquist (Wellington South). Still dangerously ill: P. Konuke (Wairoa). Still seriously ill : E. H. N. Joblin (Morere). Still seriously ill, but improving : R. Clemens, Military Medal (Wellington), R. C. Maclntyre (Wellington). Still seriously ill, but satisfactory : C. Maddock (Island Bay). Removed from seriously ill list : V. W. Stratford (Waipukurau), C. R. Tyerman (Woodville). Not severe cases : W. Johnson (Hawera), G. C. Mr-Donald (Levin). Copl. R. J. Myrpliy (Opunake), M. O'Brien T. Robson (Lower Hutt), C. L. Schroder (Pahiatua). Cpl. W. Sinclair (Wellington), H. Young (Oaoniii). (Special to the Heralrl.) WELLINGTON, this day. Wounded, April 1, Major C. R. Spragg (Mrs. H. Spragg, Gisborne, wife). Advice has been received by Mr. G. Pellow. of Kaiti, that his son," Rifleman A. Pellow, was admitted; to hospital in France on March 22,- suffering from trench fever. Mrs. Stephenson, of 152 Palmerston ! road, has received word by letter from England that her son. Rfm. W. P. Stephenson, is at present in the 2nd General Scottish Hospital, Edinburgh, suffering from a cold. Rfm. Stephenson left with the 17th Reinforcements, and has been in France practically ever , since his arrival there. The writer, a Red 1 Cross visitor to the hospital, proceeds to say that the patient is hoping to-be out soon, and that another "New Zealander, a Mr. Young, of Dunedin. . ,is also visiting Rfm. Stephenson. LIEUTENANT DOUGLAS WILLIAMS The death in action of Lieutenant Douglas Williams at the early age of 36 carries away a capable and discerning man from whom New Zealand might justly have hoped to receive help in s the work of reconstruction after tha war (states the Hawke's Bay Tribune). He was tha 1 second son of Mr. Allan Williams, of Te Aute, and was educated at Heretaunga school and Wanganui College, and was looked, upon as ona of the i cleverest sheepfarmers of the younger j generation. Enlisting two years ago, lie left with the 27th Reinforcements as a 2nd lieutenant in the infantry, and arrived in France last November*. Chaplain Lush, in cabling the news said : : — "Killed instantly, deeply regretted by his men, great, influence for good." In the magazine of the 27th Reinforcements he was described as a "white man," a J title he earned from his men by his care and consideration for them. He was very popular with his fellow officers, and one of them writing recently says : "We all get on famously, and who j would not with Williams, with his nice common sense, his clean British habits, his sense of duty, and his dry a?nse of humor."