WOUNDED.

Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 13825, 21 July 1915, Page 3 (Supplement)

WOUNDED.

Trooper J. M. Warnock, one of the New Zealanders reported wounded in an Australian casualty list recently, is a son of Mr Warnock, of Port Nelson. Trooper Warnock, who joined the Australian Light Horse in New South Wales, was employed by Mr C. M. Jloull, surveyor, prior to leaving Nelson some months ago.

Mrs. M. A. Jacobsen, of Milton street, has been advised by the Minister of Defence that her son, Private Charles Seigmond Jacobsen., of the Can- ! terbury Battalion, was wounded at the | Dardanelles, and arrived at Malta on \ the 14th inst. Private Jacobsen, who is a Nelson boy, enlisted from Hokitika.

It has been learnt by letter that Bugler Stone, son of Mr and Mrs J. Stone, of the Reservoir, who was wounded at the Dardanelles, wa«s wounded in the thigh on May Bth, tho bullet shattering the bone. He had to lie on the ground with bullets flying all arouud him, from 10 o'clock on Saturday morning till 5 o'clock on Sunday morning, when he was picked Tip and carried for a mile on a piece of oilcloth, thence on a stretcher for another mile, when the ambulance was reached. As he was being cirned along, one of his old friends, Private Snow, meti them, anil assisted in tho carrying. Bugler Ston© is now progressing favourably.

A casualty list issued yesterday contains the name of Major Stuckey, son /» Mrs. F. A. Bamford, of Nelson. Major Stuckey was originally reported to have been wounded, and letters from tho Dardanelles indicated that he

had died. The information riow received is that Major Stuckey is officially reported as missing.

Mr. H. G. Berryman, of Kohatu, has received a letter dated June 6th from his son, Sergeant Stanley. Berryman, who was wounded on Gallipoli Peninsula at the end of May. Describing the circumstances under which he sustained his wcunds, Sergeant Berryman writes: "We got in a fairly hot corner on Sunday night, and I got a bullet through the forehead and another through the right" thigh. Both wounds are healing well, and I should be well again within a month or five weeks, and hope to be

back with the boys then getting some of my own back." Sergeant Berryman adds that neither of the wounds will affect him permanently.

Our Christchureli correspondent says that Lieutenant Le Motte (13th North Canterbury and Westland Company of the Canterbury Infantry Battalior), who has been Avqundod at the Dardanelles, was born in February, 1883. at Hull. He joined the Royal Navy in 1897 as a midshipman. He was on the China Station for three and a half years, being present on the occasion of the Boxer rising in 1900, and participating in +-tie operations in the ifangtse Valley sml at Pekin and Taku. He was promoted to the rank of sublieutfcnant. but resigned from the Navy in 1904. In 1911 he was a captain in tho New Zealand Defence Force, and in 1912 ho passed the examination for the rank of major. In May, 1912, he resigned his captain's commission to join the New Zealand Defence permanent staff, and for eighteen months prior to .the- <>utbi"fak of war he was stationed ir. Christchnn-h and Westport. He left with the main Expeditionary Force as a sergeant-major. Writing to friends in Greymouth on May 27th, he reported that he had received a lieutenant's commission, and was then safe and well. Lieutenant Le Motto is the possessor of a deep-sea master's certificate. He has represented the Royal Navy at Rugby football and hockey, and "has also represented Nelson, Canterbury, and the West Coast on the Rugby field. He has also successfully competed in swimming contests. Ho is an excellent French and German linguist. '