PERSONAL WAR NOTES.

Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 13892, 25 September 1915, Page 3

PERSONAL WAR NOTES.

Private L. Snook, previously reported votmded) has reported that he is in hospital at .Alexandria-,, and doing well/ --"■" ■'.' - "■" ■'■ : "■ -■

Mrs E. Owen, of Russell street, has received word that her soil, Pruato Huf h Owen, who was wounded at the TMrku'elles; fra- arrived a the ljrensham Military Hospital, near Farnham.

, Mrs J. Boss,- of Blenheim, has been advised that her son, Trooper J. Clu-nies-Rosa of the machine gun section of the Canterbury Mounted Bifles, has been sent to England from Galhpoli, the reason not being stated,

Mr Ernest Sherwoo- 1 v. as adused yesterday that his son Private Victor Sherwood has-beon admitted to tho Metropolitan War Hospital, Wichurch Cardiff No particulars are to hand as ta the reason for Private Sherwood s admission to hospital.

Mr C Homan, of Murchison, has received word that his son, Lance-Cor-poral H. Hon.an, who went with tlio Fourth Reinforcements'to the^Dardanelles 'and was recently roportea sick, is now'reported convalescent and returning to the front.

It has been officially reported .that Sergeant Patrick Joseph Walsh was ■killed in action (says the Glen lun% correspondent, of the "Sydney Dai y ■ Telegraph"). He was a son of J»Jr Patrick Walsh, Ben Lomond, and was 30 years of age. He had a remarkable career. When .quite a child he had Jus right leg almost torn off by a dog. A few vemts later ho was badly scoMed on the "same leg. In the space o.L two years Walsh was bitten seven times by venomous snakes, was run over by a steel roller a ton weight, and hovCiccl •it death's door with a severe attack or cntoriliP. He spont two years in the • oaneficlds at- Mackay, Queensland, where he ioinod the- mountca police. Ho wanted to go to Thursday Island, but was refused, and resigned, \talsh went to New Zealand, where ho enlit.t> cd Ho was two months in the nnn^lino and was promoted to the-rank ot sergeant. Ho was killed m tho lour days' battle in which the New Zealandors were engaged. He was a-splendid hom-man and a fine rifle shot, and a member of tho Glen Innes Club.

Trooper Richard John Palmer, who has been wounded and admitted to the Pont'de Koubbeh Hospital, Cairo, is a son of Mr. Thomas Palmer, of Wakefield.

Private P. Argyle, who was killed at the Dardanelles, was the second son of Mr H. J. Argylo, of Jttunnythorpe. He left with the Third Reinforcements and landed at the Dardanelles twelve days after the main body. Mr. Ar'gyhVs third son, Private L. C. Argyle, who was reported missing on August Bth, was 20 -years of age. He also left with the Third Reinforcements.

Trooper Augus Edward Norrie, Canterbury Mounted Regiment, who is reported to be missing, is well-known in Rugby football circles in Christchurch. He played in the three-quar-ter Hue in the Linwood Rugby Football Club's first fifteen, and was secretary of the club. Trooper . Norrie • was wounded in May, and afterwards returned to the firing line.

Trooper Stanley Sullivan, pi the Otago Mounted, .killed in action at tho Dardanelles on July 25, was the third son of Mr J. Sullivan, Mcthveu. [j"e was well known in football circles there. P'tior to enlisting with the M.uin Expeditionary Force he had boon a resident of Mataura. He represented the Eastern District of Mataura in football as wing three-quarter with ir.uch success. He has two brothers a'j the front. One, Trooper E. Sullivan (Otago Mounted) has embarked for Et»land, sick, Mid tho other, Fraau Sullivan, is in the firing hue with mo Wellington Battalion.

Mrs. Alfred Evans, of Cashmere Hills, lias received word that her son, Corporal John Evans, Ist Canterbury Mounted Regiment (C.V.C.), has been reported missing since August 28th. He wai> one of the first to enlist, being o/ie of those who assisted to erect the camp at Aldington. He was for three years a member of the C.V.C. at Christchurch.

Trooper Alf. Ijrgulo'e'n, of the Wellington Mounted' Rifles, killed in acUon was a son of Mr and.Mrs W. Igguloen, of Miasterton. He was a splendid stamp of a soldier, being tall and well built. He was a noted athlete, and one of tho finest boxers in the North Island. In Hawke's Bay and Wairarapa he won several important matches. When the colonial troops were in Egypt a championship boxiiu; tournament was held, and the final in the heavy-weight division was between the late "Sergeant "Tas" Smith (also killed in action) and Trooper Iggulden, the former winning after an exceptionally good "go." The deceased was also a splendid footballer, and was a member of the New Zealand team which played New South Wales in Egj-pt several months ago.

Trooner Percy E. Tumor, only son or Mr anS Mrs F. C" Timor, Mayor air 1 Mayoress of Eketahuna, was killed in action at the Dardanelles on August 27th. The deceased, who enlisted with the First Contingent, had been invalided in Egypt for some time, but declined to consider proposals that he should return to New Zealand.. As soon as he became well, he proceeded to the firing line, and he has made the supreme sacrifice in the interests of his country. The late Trooper Tumor, who was about twenty-three years of age, was practically a native of Eketahuna.

The death of the Rev.1 William Grant, of Gisborne, chaplain-major with the New Zealand forces at Gallipoli, was the subject of a minute adopted at a meeting of the Presbytery at Ausklund. The minute stated that Mr. Grant met his death while ministering to the Turkish wounded in the Turkish trenches. He was formerly convener of the Foreign Missions Committee, and rendered most efficient service to the Church by his devotion to missionary work in the New Hebrides. His unwearied and heroic services among the soldiers in hospital and in the firing; line were warmly appreciated.

Gunner George Victor Wakefiekl Falder, news of whose death from enteric at Malta- hospital has reached his parents at Stratford, left New Zealand with the Second Reinforcements and spent three and a-half months in the trenches at Gallipoli. He was born in Adelaide in 1893, and came with his parents to New Zealand the same year. He had a brilliant school career. As a boy he was prominent in the V.M.C.A. cricket and football teams, was fond of sport, a good tennis player, and keen on military matters, being a sergeant in the local Territorials.

In the list of killed in action at the Dardanelles is the name of Corporal A. E. Campbell, who left with the Main Expeditionary Force. The late corporal had served four years in the Oreti Rifles, and became a first-class rifle shot. Subsequently as a member of the City Guards he also displayed good marksmanship, and was in the A team —one of the best combinations of the kind in Southland at that time. On the; establishment of th 6 Territorial system the late-corporal joined the In* vercajgill Defenoe 'Rifle Club;,; and wbb a member of the team of seven that won the championship of Southland, defeating five other crack teams.

Lance-corporal Walter Findlay (reported killed in action at the Dardanelles on August.27th) was..the secondyoungest son of; Mr. Robert:Findlay, of Church street, Mosgiel, and was 24 years of age at the time of his death. He passed the civil service examin■atidnj.:and was/"appointed to the accountant's branch in the'G.P.o.,'WelJington, where he remained till joining the main boHy.

Trooper Alex. Leslie Thomson, of St., Clair, who died at Malta on the Bth inst., from enteric, was the eldest of the four sons of the Hate Mr Thomas Thomson, of St. Clair. He went into camp at Tahuna Park on August 10th of last year and went to Egypt with the main body. At the Dardanelles he had six weeks' duty in the trenches, and was then invalided and sent to Malta, where he lay ill for two months before his death. Trooper Thomson played a good game of Rugby, and was a forward in the Pirates' first fifteen. He was. also an enthusiastic member of the Otago Rowing Club and took a leading part in the doingfe of tho St. Clair Life Saving Club. On January 18th 3 1913, he swam cut to the rescue of .Mr J; 11. Clarke and Mr Tmn-ev when they got washed beyond the breakers 'at "St. Clair,. and brought ashore his man (Mr.,Clarke), whom he 1 supposed to be still' alive, au act for I which he was commended by the Coroner. ;

Trooper A. G. Page, who is reporter! killed in action, was well known in th-? Chcrtsey district. ' He left that locality to settle in Gisborne. where bo took on active part in defence matters. Ho joined tho League of. Frontiersmen urder Captain Twistletoiv-and was one of those who, when the war broke out. volunteered to form a New Zealand troop, 500 strong, of League -of frontiersmen under their own officers- and providing their own horses and equip-, meut. "When it wns found impracticable for the Government to nccopt this offer 30 Leaguers, ineludino- Trooper Pago, unlisted from- Gisborne in tho 2nd Etirforcemonift, -Mid were attached to tbc^Otago Mounted- to make up tho quota. -