CASUALTIES IN N.Z.E.F.

Southland Times, Issue 24435, 15 May 1941, Page 8

CASUALTIES IN N.Z.E.F.

TWO OFFICERS AMONG KILLED •6 (P.A.) WELLINGTON, May 14. The following casualties to members of the 2nd N.Z.E.F. have been reported (the rank is private unless otherwise specified): KILLED IN ACTION 2nd-Lieutenant Allan William Clark. Father, Mr F. B. Clark, Wanganui. 2nd-Licutenant George Duncan McGlashan. Wife, Mrs B. A. McGlashan, Hawera. Robert Turnbull Cameron. Father, Mr S. Cameron, Dunedin. Corporal John Frederick Don. Mother, Mrs D. Don, Nelson. Corporal Robert Norman Fairley. Father. Mr Fairley, Wellington. Henry Albert Kennedy. Mother, Mrs Kennedy, Wellington. Harold Lumby. Wife, Mrs J. Lumby, Christchurch. Ivan Moss. Mother, Mrs Alice Moss, Palmerston North. Sergeant Michael Edwin Mulhern. Wife, Mrs P. Mulhern, Oamaru. Lance-Corporal Henry Scollay Kendall. Mother, Mrs B. C. Rendall, Timaru. Edward Heath Robinson.. Wife, Mrs Moreen Robinson, Dunedin. Victor Roger Smith. Mother, Mrs R. M. Smith, Woodville. Sergeant Brian Joseph Walsh. Mother, Mrs M. C. Walsh, Timaru. ACCIDENTALLY KILLED Owen Jame Smith. Mother, Mrs M. Smith, New Plymouth. WOUNDED Major James Morton Aitkenhead Samson. Wife, Mrs R. M. Samson, Dun- [

edin. Captain Frederick Henry Muller. Wife, Mrs F. W. Muller, Auckland. Lieutenant Donald Hewitt Nancarrow. Father, Mr F. J. H. Nancarrow, Wanganui. 2nd-Lieutenant Alexander Barton Kennedy. Wife, Mrs M. Kennedy, Christchurch. 2nd-Lieutenant John Davies Wilder Ormond. Wife, Mrs Judith Ormond, Waipukurau. Driver Edward Muir Allanson. Mother, Mrs L. Allanson, Wellington. Robert William Armstrong. Mother, Mrs M. Armstrong, Southbridge. Ivan Harris Baird. Wife, Mrs F. V. E. j Baird, Upper Hutt. I Keneth Batchelor. Father, Mr E. C.

Batchelor, Waimate. Gilbert Lionel Butler. Son, Mr N. G.

Butler. Stratford. Corporal Leonard Oscar Chivers. Mother, Mrs A. Chivers, Christchurch. Lance-Corporal William Allan Craig.

Mother, Mrs A. Craig. Timaru. Warrant Officer Frederick Herbert Daly. Father. Mr J. C. Daly, Leonards-on-Sea, England. John Arthur Derbidge. Mother, Mrs

Mona Derbidge, Taumarunui. William Dodds. Sister, Mrs Mary Jackson. Edendalc.

Nicholas Russell Vyvyan Dromgool. Father, S. R. Dromgool, Auckland. Robert Peter Farrell. Sister, Miss A. Farrell, Weston, North Otago.

Francis Arnold Field. Sister, Miss N. D. Field. Woodend, North Canterbury. Sergeant Alan Grey Ford. Father, Mr A. J. Ford. Gisborne.

Thomas David Gaudion. Mother, Mrs S. Gaudion, Christchurch.

Staff Sergeant Ernest Allan Hoare. Wife, Mrs G. Hoare. Palmerston North.

James Hope. Father, Mr W. Hope, Oamaru.

Driver Daniel Otenc Housham. Wife, Mrs M. O. Housham, Wellington.

Will Jakes. Mother, Mrs C. M. Jakes, Ngw Plymouth. Lance-Corporal Alan Walter Johnson. Wife, Mrs M. J. Johnson, Hamilton. Bernard Hector Johnston. Wife, Mrs P. D. Johnston, Wanganui. Corporal Thomas Morton Jones. Wife, Mrs V. A. Jones, Utiku.

Ccrporal Allan Francis Lawrence. Wife, Mrs A. Lawrence, Whangarei.

Charles Alfred Linegar. Wife. Mrs V. L. Linegar, Lower Hutt. William Euan Gordon Lloyd. Father, Mr T. H. G. Lloyd, Danevirke. John Enoch Lockwood. Mother, Mrs J. Lockwood, Tolaga Bay. Raymond William Lookman. Mother, Mrs L.'Lookman, Wellington.

Stanley Gordon McKeagg. Brother, Mr C. McKeagg, Dunedin. Lance-Sergeant Joseph Mahar. Father, Mr J. Mahar, New Plymouth.

Lawrence Frank Manning. Mother, Mrs A. Manning. Hawarden. Sergeant Geoffrey James David Mellscp. Mother, Mrs F. J. Mellsop, Auckland.

Corporal Gordon Alexandra Milroy. Wife, Mrs R. F. Milroy, Lower Hutt. William Martin Minogue. Mother, Mrs E. E. Minogue. Christchurch.

Arthur Trickett Powell. Father, Mr H. W. Powell, Picton.

William Eric Preston. Mother, Mrs R. Preston, Lyttelton. Martin Hastings Rae. Mother, Mrs A. Rae, Nelson.

Ernest Terice Fergusson Reid. Father, Mr L. F. Reid. Peel Forest, South Canterbury. Sergeant James Horace Blain Robertson. Wife, Mrs J. E. Robertson, Studholme Junction.

Driver George Henry Robinson. Sister,

Mrs G. Gordon, Teanga. Colin Norman Rogers. Father, Mr J. J. Rogers, Gisborne. Keith Ralph Rutledge. Father, Mr W.

L. Rutledge. Matawai. Driver Harold Martin Sanders. Brother-in-lav/, Mr P. Presland, Dargaville. Corporal Eric William Arnold Sutherland. Mother, Mrs P. Sutherland,

Christchurch. Phillip George Tapping. Mother, Mrs B.

Tapping, Gisborne. Driver Stanley Neilson Vickers. Mother, Mrs M. Vickers, Dunedin. Clement Walker. Mother, Mrs E.

Walker, Hastings. Frederick Kitchener Whitehead. Mother, Mrs S. Whitehead, Gisborne. Geoffrey Desmond Whitehead. Father,

Mr S'. Whitehead, Gisborne. John Thomas Wilson. Sister, Miss Eileen Wilson, Wellington. DUNEDIN OFFICER’S DEATH PRESBYTERIAN MINISTER Included in the casualty list published on Tuesday was the name of 2nd Lieutenant (the Rev.) Fergus Blair McLaren, of Dunedin, who was killed in action in Greece. The Presbyterian Church of New Zealand is, as a result, deprived of one of the finest of its young men. Born in April, 1914, he received his education at the Mornington School, Otago Boys’ High School and Otago University, graduating from the University with an M.A. degree in 1937. He then spent three years in the Theological Hall at Knox College, being president of the Theological Students’ Association in his final year. When war broke out he abandoned a plan he had made to go to Edinburgh to complete his studies, for he felt compelled'to offer his services in what he considered to be the cause of right and of Christendom. In the belief that he could best help his fellows by enlisting as a private, he did so immediately after he had obtained ministerial status and been licensed by the Presbytery of Dunedin to preach in the Mornington

Church. He was chosen in the Trentham Camp to train for a commission at Trentham and when he was awarded one was regarded as one of the most promising of the younger officers.

2nd Lieutenant McLaren was highly popular among a wide circle of friends, particularly men and boys in Dunedin and Central Otago, and was justly esteemed for his quiet yet fearless championing of ideals that were held by him to be just and righteous. He was an active member of the Dunedin branch of the Institute of International affairs and of the Dunedin branch of Toe H. He had passed through all ranks in the Scout movement from Wolf Cub to Rover Leader and Scoutmaster, and was a recognized authority on Scouting, particularly in its openair aspects. He was extremely interested in social work, especially in the public works camps, and was W.E.A. tutor during one summer vacation in the Central Otago camps.