New Zealand

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 42, 19 June 1915, Page 5

New Zealand

NEW ZEALAND CASUALTY LIST. KILLED IN ACTIOM. Canterbury Battalion. Private Cyril Knight. DIED OF WOUNDS. Wellington Mounted Rifles. Trooper Alfred Edward Thomas. Otago Battalion. Corporal Michael McCarty. Auckland Mounted Infantry. Trooper Charles John Victor Munu. Auckland Infantry Battalion. Private Christopher Barney Billing WOUNDED. Wellington Battalion. Sergeant Athol Courtney Forbes. Corporal Samuel James Heart Ross. Private Albert Francis Hudson. Private William Jesse Smith. Canterbury Battalion. Private Richard Atkinson. Private William Auld. Sergeant Alexander John Bennington. Private Edmund Bird. Sergeant Ernest Hillin Burnette. Private Henry Byrch. Private Robert Caskey. Private Edmund Lawrence Cheeseman. Private Arthur Edmond Chrisp. Private Frederick Arthur Clark. Private Thomas Coles. Private Robert Louis Forbes. Private Harry Handley. Private Cyril Bertram Harsant. Private Frank Hunt. Private Arthur Jewiss. Private Walter Herbert Keith-Mur-

ra.r. Private Henry Kenny. Private William Lewis. Private William Alexander Lockwood. Private James McArthur. Private James McConnell. Private John Marr. Private \yillmm Marshall. Private George Patrick Niall. Private Orlando Pointon. Private Robert Rennie. Private Arthur Burward Sizer. Private Thomas Percival Smith. Private Ernest Thorval Stout. Private Alexander Tait Private Frank George Waghorn. Private Linus Evelyn Walker. Private Reginald Robert White. Private Ivor Jack Woods, WOUNDED IN HOSPITAL. i SwjPiiMf ■ - in General Hospital, Cairo. Canterbury Battalion. —Privates Keith I)e Mans, John Allen Anderson, Charles Herbert. Hector Robson Saunderson, Frank Boundy Smith, and Stephen McDonald. Otago Battalion.—Privates John Stockbridge, Dunlop Carnahan, Thomas Martin, Sidney Walters, George Reid Robertson, Sergeant Robert Gordon,, Privates James Joseph Nolan, Jnames Frederick Milner. Wellington Battalion.—Lieutenant Eric Morgan, Privates Samuel Northey, Charles Bradley, William Wadman Ross (Alexander John Ross, Huiroa, Stratford, father). Field Artillery Brigade.—Private Edward Cawford. Field Ambulance Brigade.—Private Frank Victor Landlord. Auckland Battalion.—Privates Peter Broome, Giles, Norman Crozier Gairns, Frank Lipscomhe Gibson. Auckland Mounted Regiment.—Privates Gordon Hovey. Ralph Edwin Logan McClure. Wellington Mounted Regiment.— Private Richard Edward Ainsworth Field Artillery Brigade.—Sergeant Vernon Edward Challis. Canterbury Mounted. Regiment.— Trooper Benjamin Aldridge. Field Ambulance Brigade.—Private Thomas Irwin.

Army Service Corps.—Sergeant Herbert Francis Whitley, ----- IN CONVALESCENT CAMP, HELOUAN, CAIRO.

Aucklaind Infantry Battalion.—Privates J. C. Brown, J. H. Cook, and E. A. Eagle.

Wellington Infantry Battalion. —■ Private W. A. Perry.

Field Artillery Brigade.— Gunner C. L. Pauling. New Zealand Medical Corps.—Private R. W. Napier.

Otago Mounted Rifles.—Trooper C. A. McQuarrie. Wellington Battalion. Privates I Thomas E. Reynolds, B. Palmer, R(F. Champman, P. Wood, D. L. }Smith, A. Gardner, A. Reid, R. J. Jenkins, J. Potter, and N. Bell. Auckland Battalion.—Privates E. lA. Bollard, H. W. Pain, T. W. Albiston. J. T. Tod and L. G. Hill. IN NO. 1 GENERAL HOSPITAL, j CAIRO. I Canterbury Infantry.—Privates A. M. Kyle, C. H. Iton, A. S. Dick, and W. S. Ithill. j Canterbury Battalion.—Corpora] J. R. Sullivan, Privates E- JFowke R. E. Fairbrother.

NEW ZEALAND WOUNDED FUND I , STRATFORD CONTRIBUTIONS. Amount previously acl<I now lodged I -- * Kiore Tennis Club ... - 1- 0 ! Collection Dance Town , j Hall 8 ; .Huiron Concert and ■ | Dance ... ... IS 18 1 ; Miss I O. MeCutehan ... 15.0 \V. A. MeCutehan ... 15 15 0 ! Stratford Patriotic Fund 2(10 0 0 j £286 9 9

HOSPJTAL SHIP. Mr J. B. Richards, secretary of the Patriotic Committee, is in receipt of the following letter from the Undersecretary, Department of Internal Affairs:— 1 have the honour by direction of the Minister of Defence to acknowledge receipt of you letter of the ith inst., covering Bank Receipt for £7lO 7s lid .being amount contributed to the Hospital Ship Fund, ami am directed to convey to the donors, as well as your Committee, appreciation of this generous response to His Excellency’s appeal. With regard to the donation of £8 -Is (id included in the above amount, which lias a condition attached to it that it he used to furnish two beds, 1 give hereunder a statement recently made by His Excellency the Governor in respect to conditional contributors :—• “While the generosity of certain districts in desiring to provide and maintain beds or cots and have them named after them is fully recognised it has been found, after mature consideration, that such a scheme would he most difficult to arrange, and it is, therefore, hoped that the ship will be equipped as a national gift.” In view of this 1 shall be glad to know whether the condition attaching to the particular sum may he waived, and that the amount may he accepted as a general contribution to the New Zealand Hospital Ship Fund. In order that the contribution may he dealt with promptly, an early reply will he esteemed.