CASUALTIES.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume II, Issue 532, 23 October 1915, Page 9

CASUALTIES.

NEW ZEALAND FORCEM LIST ISSUED THIS AFTERNOON The following names were includ- /*i ed in the casualty list issued this S afternoon:— ~ KILLED IN ACTION. (Previously reported "missing). CANTERBURY MOUNTED. Trooper C. J. Hall. PRISONER OF WAR. (Previously reported missing). AUCKLAND MOUNTED. Trooper J. A. Harvey. HOSPITAL REPORT. Admitted to hospital at Malta:— Canterbury Battalion—Private V. -, *: H. Smith. ..>■ Embarked for England:— Canterbury Mounted—Trooper A. G. Waghorri. v Canterbury Battalion—Lance-Cor-poral H. Ellen, Private G. McCann, Private H. Wilson. FOR KING AND EMPIRE. DARDANELLES CASUALTIES. SERGEANT-MAJOR LEECH. . / SergeantrMajor J. D. L. Leech was. , ( killed in action at the Dardanelles . * on May 19. HeVwas a native of- '> Reef ton, and left New Zealand with

■ ■• " '■■..' ' ( the 2nd Reinforcements with v the 6th (Hauraki) Regimejtit, Auckland Infantry Battalion. SAPPER THOMSON.

Mr W. Thomson, of 11 Ombersley Terrace, Opawa, has received a letter from his youngest son, Sapper R M. Thomson, dated September 12, stating that he is in the Abbassieh Hospital, Cairo, sufferings from dysentery and a septic right hand. Mr Thomson lias had no: previous in-

formation of his son's condition. Sapper R. M. Thomson, whose letter was very short, owing to the condition of his hand, was feeling better v at the time of writing. His previous • letters, he stated, the chaplain had kindly written for him. These letters have not yet been received.