SOME OF OUR DEFENDERS.

Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 14150, 29 July 1916, Page 2

SOME OF OUR DEFENDERS.

Advice has i been received vtliat Sergeant James Bree,' of Oamaiu, was nlled in action m )<'iance. on July 14th. fie left New Zealand with tlu^Main Body, and went riglit thiough the Gal-, hpoli campaign, m ho At as wounded. He- was sent to Malta Hospital, and latei t6 England. Arterw_aids he returned to Egypt, and1 then went to Fiance. He recerved his piomotjon on the field. His age was 28 yeais His biother was wounded"bj shiapnel in a bayonet charge at Gaba Tepe, and rcfanned to New Zealand on September 11th last. Sergeant Bree, his father, is at piesent in Featherston Camp. * Seigeant J Baiber (accidentally killed by a bomb) was a son oi Mt and Mis. Baibci, of Wilson stieet, Newtown, and was \eij well known in Rugby cnclcs He had been a me"mbei oi the Onental, Poneke, and Meliose Football Clubs. At the outbieak of wai he left,\iith the Samoan,Expeditionary Foicq He leturn from Samoa m Apml, 191 r,»aud left the Fifth Remf oi cements, being one of the Suvla Biy heioes * It was x>n Gallipoli, Avheie he skived till the evacuation, that he «on his seigeant's stupes Later he proceeded with the Anzacs to Fiance, where he met his death Tw-o~othe"i oiotheis aie seiving m France, and the lemaimng one goes into camp shoitly

Seigeant E. R Talboys, of Dunedm, who is lepoited to have been killed in action in Fiance, was a brother of Mr. F 1» Talbojs, the Wanganui Tramways Engmeei and manager who is entering the Auckland flying school to qualifj foi >oi \ ice at the fiont.

Pin ate J. A. Beny, who di,ed at Tientham Hospital from pneumonia, went to Wellington fiom the 'West Coast, and was a member of the Fifteenth Reinforcements. Mr. A. Berry, of the G.P.0., is a brother of the:--de-ceased, who. was 37 years of age.

Lance-Corporal Norman E. Banks, killed in- action, was a member of tile"Fighting Fifth/" which (says the "Wanganui Chronicle") had such a disastrous experience last August. when they Landed at Gallipoli, where'4oo out of 1200 were killed and wounded the first night. Lance-Corporal Banks was biit 20 years of age, haying beeia permitter, after earnest- entreaty, to join the forces when he was 18.

Private J. L, Whit-, of Masterton, ' has been killed in act' - The deceas-;! Ed, who at the tirr-e '>->' enlisted Was ' t-ngaged as «a telegraph' lineman in Masterton, was encaged in special and 1 very hazardous w-brk at the front.. He 'was about 34 j^ears of age, and very popular with all-on account of nis many! fine qualities. He .leaves a wife-aiicU two children. ;

Corporal A. Marshall (killed) wag a shining example, for those who are still hanging-..-back from active service. When he first, offered his services he was unable to pass "'the. medical test, and was told that he would have to go under an operation.' Nothing daunted, he immediately went, home to Ulver-*i stone, " Tasmania, where his as;ed' mother and father reside, spent a few weeks'.with them, came; back to T)unorlin, ; was operated on at the Dunedm .Hospital,, and again offered his "services, 1 \';hich were accented, and be sailed last Jfirmary 'with the second detachment of Lord Liverpool's Own. «