RETURNING SOLDIERS

Southland Times, Issue 17562, 26 October 1915, Page 2

RETURNING SOLDIERS

TOFUA EXPECTED TO-DAY. CIVIC RECEPTION. /.Per United Press Association.) DUNKDLV, October 25. Tiic troopship Tofua is expected here ut 2 p.m., on Tuesday. She lias six cot oases. 69 hospital cases, and 335 others. The cot cases will bo sent to hospital tomorrow, but the other men will remain on tiie steamer till Wednesday corning, when a civic reception will take place at the Drill Hall, after which those able to travel will leave for their homes, the men going north travelling by the second express. Those for tiie south will leave by special train at 11.30 a.m. THE INVALIDED MEN. COT AND HOSPITAL CASES. ON TOFUA AND WILLOCHKA The local Defence Office has received an additional cablegram regarding the sick and wounded men who are returni ing on board the transports Tofua and Willochra. The chief value of this ‘•check” list is to show the more serious or “cot” cases and the hospital cases. There are six of the former and 70 of the latter on boajsd the Tofua, along with 1 1 convalescent cases, while on the WilJochra there arc 27 of the former, and 129 of the latter. In the case of each vessel those men who are not included in either of these lists will be able to proceed to their homes. It may also be found that by the time the transports arrive proportion of the hospital cases may frave improved sufficiently to allow the men to travel. The new lists are as follow; THE TOFUA. COT CASES. Tho following are the cot cases on the Tofua; —• AUCKLAND BATTALION. James A. Gawn. William Kedgard Olsen. Waller Leslie Nicholas Lawrence. ■Joseph Donald Painton. CANTERBURY BATTALION. Harvey Macdonald Vincent. FIELD AMBULANCE. Theodore Coward. HOSPITAL CASES. The following are the hospital cases on the Tofua; — OTAGO BATTALION. George Campbell. James Robert Clearkin. R Cox. Joseph Henry May. T. L. .'Meehan. Earnest Parkin. Ernest Johnston Reed. James Stuart. William Robert Towns. Louis Tristan). OTAGO MOUNTED. Joseph Patrick Davis. A 1 'OKU AND BATTALION. Percy Thomas Pullen. Austin Edward Coakley. David Monlcith. William James Slines. Thomas Henry Ford Tcape. AUCKLAND MOUNTED. Victor Muldrock. Walter James Price. Francis Storey. Ernest Percy Shelley Swectman. W LI.L 1 N GTON B ATTA LION. Frank .lule Fougorc. Joseph William Gate. Thomas Joseph Koighraa, Frederick Mundcll. Ernest Palmer. Wilfred Pope. John Potter. H. Augustus Randrupp. lad ward Stow. George SoITr. Ernest Svonscn. Douglas Stewart. Lawrence Philip ThaxtdP. Henry Arthur Webster. Henry Gordon Wilson. WELL! NO TO N W O UNTED. Wm. Stanley Coleman. .1 as. Guy Thomson. .las. Archibald Wilson. CANTERBURY BATTALION. John Child. W. C. Cooke. C. Dailey. Leonard Jas. Foley. Farqunrhar McCtac Gilmore. .lack Hall. Horace Ive.s. Leonard Register. Vivian Roy Sanderson. Win. Crisp Scott. Frederick Shaw. Edwin Frank Vincent. Gordon Thomas Wright. CANTERBURY MOUNTED. Edward Spencer. Herbert Joseph Steer. Walter Stanley Wright. Harry OeJdrich Webb. FIELD ENGINEERS. Chris. Patrick Fair. G. H. Macan. Alex. Simpson. Richard Williams. Andrew Young. FIELD ARTILLERY. Alfred Cyril Parker. George Logan Robertson. Albert Edwin Taylor. FI ELD A M BULANCK. Private .Herbert Metcalfe. MAORI CONTINGENT. Te Austutchanga Tanpaki. Llataraka ‘Mataia. VETERINARY CORPS. Robert Tlios. Roberts. CONVALESCENT CASES. The following men on hoard Lite Tofua are reported as convalescent; AUCKLAND BATTALION. Edward Douglas Hoard man. William Alfred Coggins. Joint Collins. Lester Edward Quintal!. William Edward Koigard. George Skellern. Arthur George Shewring. William John Waldron. WELLINGTON BATTALION. Frederick Hucben Swain. Ronald Douglas Turnbull. Arthur William Vyncr.

WILLOCHRA. COT CASES. The following are the cot cases on hoard the Willochra:- — OTAGO BATTALION. Jas. Mitchell McGregor. Francis Wm. Mailman. Ronald Alex, Maxwell. AUCKLAND BATTALION. Aranud Henry McKellar. Leslie Richard Shannon. Sidney Chas. Wells. WELLIN GTON BATTALION. Martin Anderson. Bertie Cooke. J. A. -McLaughlin. Clyde Alfred lluramey. Joseph Albert Twist. WELLINGTON MOUNTED. Francis Hawke Cash. CANTERBURY BATTALION. Daniel Jason Mcßeath. Robert Massey. Owen Rogers. Donald Williamson Smith. CANTERBURY MOUNTED. Thomas Edwin Squire. FIELD ARTILLERY. Edwin Joynt. MAORI CONTINGENT. Tamo Potanga. HOSPITAL CASES. The following are the hospital cases on board the Willochra: — OTAGO BATTALION. Ernest Stanley Aston. James McGregor Bailock. Frederick Barlow. Horace Braithwaite. Henry Butcher. John Carroll. Wm. Patrick Casey, John Darlison. Thomas Edwards. Allan George Girvaa.,

Frederick Leonard Girvan. Henry Guyton. George Robert Hudfleld. John Henry Hardy. Douglas Alex. Higgle. John Loudon Johnstone. Lawrence Kitt. Thomas Smith Knox. Joseph Lennane. Henry Bevcsley George Lewis’. Charles Allenton Kerse. Angus Mclvor. James McMullin. Richard Houston McNeice. James Frederick Milner. Patrick O’Connor. John Richard Spratt. Richard Trombath. George Allen Young. OTAGO MOUNTED. George Anderson. El-nest Green. Robert Turnbull Hucklebridgs. Peter Catanach McLeod. Stewart Samuel Shaw. John Thomas. Herbert Roland Williams. George Corliss Black. Malcolm Blaikio. James Francis Burt. Harry Calder. John Joseph Cassidy. • AUCKLAND BATTALION. Wm. Alfred. William Alfred Allen. Chas. Frederick Bennett. Daniel O’Connell Boyle. Lawrence George Burke. Bruce Cameron. Frederick Clayton. Cecil John Cottingham. John Hamill Davidson, Athol Guy Frost. Jack Harris. Robert Joseph McKenna. John .Henry Mansell. Gerald Wilfred Matthews. Thomas Wm. Medhurst. George Harold Riley. AUCKLAND MOUNTED. Harry Bonnington. Percy Edward Breingan, Leslie Corcoran. Percy Fulton. Robt. Cecil Herbert Hollis. Gordon Cecil Leighton. Robert McNaul. WELLINGTON BATTALION. William Allen. Harold Amos. Charles Robert Barker. Thomas Charles Bilby. Arthur Leslie Brown. Edmund Corbett. Harry Cropper. Carl Norman Dcvcry. Arthur Durling. William Richard Goldfinch. AVallace William Hansford. Patrick Higgins. Ernest William Hine. Herbert Hughes. S. J. Lowry. Robert Merritt. Henry Kynall Miller. Frederick James Smith. John Sullivan. ■WELLINGTON MOUNTED. Thomas Wcmyss Bohlsen. Stuart Lochiel Cameron. Arthur Edward Cooper. Frederick Crompton. Alex. McKenzie. Norman Alfred Miller. Charles Percy. t’A NTERBf RT BATTALION. Edward Stewart Agncw. Cyril Burt, Wm. Neil Campbell. Leonard Arthur Cox. Albert Richard Cropp. Gordon Wm. Duncan. Thomas A. Fitzgerald. Alfred Langley Philip Gibbons. I James Jones. Patrick Joseph Joyce. Robert Laing. John McDonald. Cla.rcnce Henry Milner. Michael O’Malley. Delabero Goofiroy Pritchett, CANTERBURY MOUNTED. Percy Batty. Henry Malthy Cotton. Patrick James CTannitch. Wallace Furphy. John Harnett. William Ernest Hcald. John Lott, Willim John McConnell, John "William McLeod. Harold James Moore. Alfred Whiting. FIELD ENGINEERS. William Alo.ock. Koyeo Hall. Robert Miliar. Godfrey Clivo Miller, FIELD ARTILLERY. Garnett Archibald Goodwin. —. Hanes. Henry Louis Paterson, James Pearce. Andrew Crow Riddell. FIELD AMBULANCE. Eric Ma-ckny Campbell. Edgar Guthrie. HEADQUARTERS DIVISION A TRAIN. Charles Edward Clark. Carl Herbert Sandman. ATTACHED TO HEADQUARTERS. Percy Leonard Caldwell. VETERINARY CORPS. Thomas Mc.Avinuc. MAORI CONTINGENT. Roy Delaney. Friday Patrick Hawkins. He.ri To Pan. Tiaro Hacrahuka, ADDITIONAL MEN ON WILLOCHRA. The following names of men on hoard the Willochra have not yet been published:—•

OTAGO BATTALION. A. G. Valentine. Sydney Taylor Garrard. OTAGO MOUNTED. C. S. Grant, FI EL 1 > ART! LLER Y. J. E. l-'indlay. FIELD AMBULANCE. A. E. J. Parsons. A. O. Bennett, F. W. Walsh. A. Service. E. A. Arnold. L. G. Bell. W. L. Oates. J. R. Moore. A. S. N. Johnson. L. Pickon. C. H. Quinn. ATTACHED TO HEADQUARTERS. H. Sycamore. R. Yarrow. The name of F. Dyaski (Otago Mounted) was previously included in the list of those returning by tho Tofua, but; he is coming by the Willochra.