CASUALTIES.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume II, Issue 437, 5 July 1915, Page 3

CASUALTIES.

NEW ZEALAND LOSSES. LISTS ISSUED LAST NIGHT. Prefix Association. WELLINGTON, July 4. The following casualty lists have been issued: — KILLED IN ACTION. CANTERBURY BATTALION. 0/116 —Private Lionel Henry Parson (H. H. Parsons, care Fletcher, Humphreys, and Co., Christchurch). Previously reported wounded and missing. Killed May 2. 0/1011—Privale Noel Roy Sinie Janet S. Sinie, Mansfield Avenue, Christchurch). Previously reported missing. Killed April 25. 0/773—Privale Cecil Frank Twidle (William Twidle, Havelock, Marlborough, Father). Killed June 19. DIED OF WOUNDS. CANTERBURY BATTALION. 0/1007 —Sergeant Fothergill Macmullen (Mrs G. H. Macmullen, 120 Vauxhall Road, Devonport, Auckland, wile). Previously reported wounded and missing. 6/731—Lance-Corporal. Richard Thwaites (Mrs M. Thwaites, Roxburgh Street, Wellington, mother).

DIED IN HOSPITAL.

WELLINGTON MOUNTED. Trooper Fre.d' Frederick Smith.

MISSING. (Previously Reported Wounded).

CANTERBURY BATTALION. 6/1558—Private Cyril Bertram Harsant (Mrs Annie E. Roffey, Coromandel, mother). Since June 5. 6/101—Private William Robert Marshall (Mrs Meeneer, 356 Cashel Street, Christchureh). Since June 5. WOUNDED. CANTERBURY BATTALION. 0/1798_Private William John Bond (Edith Bond, Church Street

West, Timaru, daughter). 6/1790—Private-Walter Brown (Walter Brown, Stepping Lane,

Derby, England, father). * 6/1893—Private Albert Thomas Kelly (Mrs E. Price, Princess Hotel, Invercargill, mother). <)/929—Private David Lyall Shand (James Shand, Sale Street, Ho-

kitika). 6/1447—Private John Alexander Anderson (John Anderson, Green-

hill, Southland, father). 6/630—Private Edward Flaherty (A. Flaherty, Cobden). 6/1733—Private Howard Swift (Albert Swift, Northland, Wellington). 6/1876—Private William Patrick Houlihan (Mrs Catherine Houli-

han, Middle Street, Timaru, mo-

ther). 6/1559—Private Andrew Thomas

Gussy (Francis Gussy, North

Shore, Auckland, father). 0/684—Private Peter M'lntyre (Mrs Jean M'lntyre, York , Place, Dunedin, mother). 6/1352—Private William Charles Enoch M'Donald (Mrs Agnes M'Donald, Denniston, Westport, mother). AUCKLAND BATTALION. Private James Allen. Private Alfred Purcell. Lance-Corporal Hugh Pownall Williams.

Private Arthur John Valentine Charlesworth. Private Arthur Norman Hackney. Private Jack Walker. WELLINGTON BATTALION. Lieutenant William Peachey Aldridge. Private Richard John'Denny. ADMITTED TO HOSPITAL. Admitted to. 19th General Hospital (or Deaconess Home), Alexandria, June 30:— Canterbury Battalion. —Lieutenant Owen Herbert Mead, enteric. Corporal William P. Harper, appendicitis.

Canterbury Mounted. —Lieutenant Lawrence Clervaux Chaytor, enteritis.

Field Engineers.—Sapper Thomas Patrick M'Donald, appendicitis. Wellington Battalion.—Private Horace Edgar Wilton, severe depressed fracture parietal bone. Otago Battalion.—-Private John Ernest Burke, pneumonia. Arrived at Nelley Hospital:— Auckland Battalion.—Captain Athol G. B. Price.

Admitted to Anglo-American Hospital, Ghizires:—

Auckland Battalion.—Lieutenant George Harry Wooley, dysentery. Auckland Mounted.—Major Alfred Tattersall, gastritis and diarrhoea.

Canterbury Mounted. —Lieutenant George Raymond Blackett, contusion thigh and general debility.

SICK AND WOUNDED.

The following hospital progress rci)orls were issued to-day:— Arrived at London:— CANTERBURY BATTALION. Lieul.-Colone! Albert Edward Loach, Major Herbert Ernest Hart, Captain Geoffry Samuel Smith. At Netley Hospital:— CANTERBURY BATTALION. Private Alfred Allen, Sergt.-Major William John Auld, Private Lewis r.h..""."un. Sergeants William Ed-

monds and Albert Hector Guy, Lance-Corporal Charles Stanley Round. CANTERBURY MOUNTED. Lance-Corporal Nolan Sustins. AUCKLAND BATTALION. Sergeant Alfred John Anderson, Privates Norman Godkin, Leonard Robertshaw, James Ford Simpson. AUCKLAND MOUNTED. Troopers Wilfred Conolly, Alexander Cleveland MWrthur. WELLINGTON BATTALION. Lance-Corporal George Bains Melrose, Sergt.-Major Beaumont Woodhead. WELLINGTON MOUNTED. Troopers Robert Alexander Cooper, George Mabey, Frederick William Mothes, John Stewart. OTAGO MOUNTED. Driver William Leo Nicholson. N.Z. FIELD ENGINEERS. Corporal Harold Grosvenor Pincl. N.Z. FIELD AMBULANCE. Sergeant Edwin Roland Norrie. Arrived at Military Hospital, Exeter:— CANTERBURY BATTALION. Private James Henry Shand, Duncan Gilbert, Reginald Benbow. WELLINGTON BATTALION. Privates John Edward Hastings, William Arthur W r asley. WELLINGTON MOUNTED. Troopers Eric Michael Lynch, Herbert Raympnd Blake. AUCKLAND BATTALION. Privates Harry Erlam, Arthur Leith Shand? . OTAGO BATTALION. Private Percy Stevensjon. ARMY SERVICE CORPS. Sergeant Eric Bowley,Driver John Langford Easther. j FIELD ARTILLERY BRIGADE. Gunner Edward Gilbert Norman. Arrived at Birmingham Hospital: WELLINGTON BATTALION.

Privates Philip Fullerton, Shields, Frank Albert Shirley. AUCKLAND BATTALION. Privates Sam Clay, William Herbert Rowson. At the Red Cross Hospital, Perth:

WELLINGTON MOUNTED. Sergeant John L. S. Richardson

LIEUT.-COL. LOACH.

The following cable message has been received by the Prime Minister from the High Commissioner:— "Please convey to Mrs Loach, Merivalc, Christchureh, the following message:—'Lieut-Col. Loach leaving for New Zealand about end of month; will not operate; would take 12 months to use leg again."

LANCE-CORPORAL R. THWAITES

Lance-Corporal R. Thwaites (Canterbury Battalion) died of wounds, was formerly a linesman in the employ of the Telegraph Department, tit Nelson.

TROOPER C. D. McLENNAN

Trooper C. D. McLennan (Canterbury Mounted), killed in action, was a member of .the Dunedin City Fire Brigade. He enlisted in Dunedin, and went to the front with the Third Reinforcements. His father was Mr Duncan McLennan, of Kiversdale.

PRIVATE F. O'CONNOR.

Mr P. O'Connor, of Allcrton, Ashburton, has received word that his son, Pvte. Frank O'Connor, who enlisted at Wellington, and was reported wounded, is being sent home by the Willochra.

CHAPLAIN-CAPT. F. T. TAYLOR.

The Bishop of Nelson has received a letter from the Rev. T. Fielder Taylor, chaplain with the Canterbury Battalion, dated Malta, May-25. MiTaylor states that while rescuing a wounded man from the trenches he was shot in the back, the bullet striking three sovereigns in his belt, and glancing from them into his back. The bullet his now been extracted, and the wound is slowly healing. MrTaylor says •• there is nor.ne'ed for anxiety, and he hoped to be with the troops within a month. PRIVATE E. A. CAHILL. Private E. A. Cahill (AucWaM Battalion), killed, was 27 yeans of age, and before the outbreak of war held a clerical position in an insurance office in Queensland. He joined the Ist Australian Expeditionary Force. Pvte. Cahill took an active; part in cricket and swimming. Aybrother, Mr J. A. Cahill, is manager of the New Zealand Acetylene Gas Co., in Auckland. PRIVATE E. N. BOOTH. Private Edgar Normanby Booth (Auckland Battalion),killed, was a son of Mr R. Booth, of the Dunedin Telegraph Ofliee, and was 24 years of age. He was born at Blenheim and educated there and at Christchurch. For many years he was connected with the Ellerbeck Photographic Studios, Auckland, and then entered into business on his own account at Dominion Road, Auckland. When the war broke out he joined the Auckland Infantry Battalion, and assisted the band as cornet player. He had served for some years in the volunteers as a member of the Engineer Corps, and was also attached to the Boy Scouts, holding the office of scoutmaster. He was an allround athlete, and had charge of the Mount Eden and Epsom Methodist Gymnasium Clubs, while for a number of years he represented those clubs on the Association football field. In musical .circles he was a member of the Auckland Harmonic Orchestra and Pit I Street Methodist Church choir.