FOR KING AND EMPIRE,

Sun (Christchurch), Volume III, Issue 826, 3 October 1916, Page 6

FOR KING AND EMPIRE,

WOUNDED NEW ZEALAND SOLDIERS

FIGHTERS IN THE GREAT ALLIED OFFENSIVE

TROOPER V. (.'. O'CALLAGHAN Trooper V. C. O'Callaghan, CM.. I is the youngest son of Mr and Mi J. O'Callaghan, of Ardcairn, Fenda ton. He left with the lib Rcinforo inent. lie went to Hgypt, and \v: chosen as dispatch rider. He w; wounded. Subsequently he drove

New Zealand motor lorry, but was recalled to join the Mounteds again. He was in action in August, and had his horse killed under him. lie is suffering from septic poisoning, PRIVATE R. HODGSON. Private It. Hodgson, wounded was the only son of Mr 11. Hodgson, Dunollie, West Coast. He left with the llih Reinforcement. Prior to

his enlistment lie was in the railway service in the North Island. A sister, Mrs NY. Prime, resides at 18.") Barbadoes Street.. PRIVATE P. J. DARLING. Private Peter John Darling, wounded on September 1."), enlisted originally in the Mountcds attached to the (ilh Reinforcement, but later transferred to the Infantry, lie was present at the final stages on Gallipoli. lie is 33 years of age, and

prior fo enlistment had been in the employ of Briscoe and Go.. Christchurch, for 12 years. His sister is the widow of Sergeant Slyants, who was reported killed on the same day. CAPTAIN J. L. SAUNDERS. Captain .1. L. Saunders, wounded, is a son of tile I!ev. \V. Saunders, of the Moray Place Congregational

Chinch. Dunedin. lie led New Zei land with Ihe Main Kxpcdilionar Force. In the Callipoli cainpaig he was reported to have died i wounds. Inil was subsequently foun lo have been severely wounded.

SERGEANT .1. L. O'CALLAGHAN Sergeant .1. 1.. O'Callaghan, C.M.I is the eldest son of Mr and Mrs O'Callaghan, of Ardcairn, Fondalto He left with the Itli Rcinforcemci as Record-Sergeant. He served hj lime willi the Christchurch "Spei lalor," and was employed snbsi

quentlv by Ihe Temuka "Leader and on the Hansard stall'. He wa wounded on September IS in the lei arm, thigh, and foot. SERGEANT F. G. McDAVITT. Sergeant Francis Grey McDavil of Ihe "Karl of Liverpool's Own, who has been wounded, is the Unison of Mr John McDavill, solicitoi of Morrinsville, and is a nephew <i

Mrs Hill, of NT Cambridge Terrace, Chiistclniicl). Ho was educated at the Opunake Convent School. He left Ihe Stratford Post Office in order! to enlist. Sergeant MeDavitt was' wounded in I lie left arm on Seplemher IX, and was invalided to Kngland.

TROOPER W. R. J. BROWN. Word has been received that 'rooper W. R. .1. Brown, second son f Mr W. (I. Brown, of Spencer

Street, Addington, has been wounded, lie was born in Ihe Ashburlon district, and was '2'.) years of age. lie lefl New Zealand with Ihe !Hh Reinforcemenl. RIFLEMAN E. G. HARRISON. Rifleman K. (!. Harrison, wounded, joined the 13th Reinforcement, and enlisted in Taranaki. lie is the " ■—■ i■ .

seeond si in i»l' Mi" I'.. Iliirrison, of | '!':ii';in;il\i. anil ;i nephew of Mrs S. Summerton, ('.hristeluiivh. Before his enlislnienl lie was fanning in Ihei IXoilli Island.