AUSTRALASIAN CASUALTIES.

Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 13791, 11 June 1915, Page 5

AUSTRALASIAN CASUALTIES.

CAPTAIN BAGE KILLED

AN ANTARCTIC HERO

(Received June 11, 0.15 a.m.)

Sydney, June 10,

Captain Bage, commanding the Third Field Company of Engineers, was killed at the Dardanelles. Ho accompanied the Mawson Expedition as astronomer, and was one of the six volunteers forming the relief party left in the Antarctic for the second winter. Tvhon Sir Douglas Mawson and his two ill-fated companions failed to return to the winter quarters at tho appointed time, Captain Bage led the southern sledging party which accomplished a perilous i journey oil 600 miles, hauling the sledges over the rough, blizzard-swept' ice. Sapper F. A. Reynolds, killed at the Dardanelles, was New Zealand, born. He spent mest of his. life in Sydney; : The thirty-fifth Dardanelles-.casualty list is as follows: — ■ Wounded: Lieutenant Sparks. Killed in action: Thirty-eight,"includ-ing Private W. Thomson, a New Zealander. j Died of wounds: Twenty-seven, in-; eluding Private It. A. Adair, a New Zealauder. Wounded: 260, inculding Privates G. Morgan, 11. M. Baker, W. J. Laytlier, and"A. B. Allam, Now Zealanders. The totals to date are as follows:— Killed: 125 officers and 909 men; Wounded: 230 officers ""and 5671 men. Missing: Seventeen officem and 92 men.