SOME OF OUR DEFENDERS.

Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 14156, 5 August 1916, Page 3

SOME OF OUR DEFENDERS.

Second-Lieutenant Horace Lang, .13.A. (reported killed in action), was a master at Christ's College, Christehuch". He was 25 years of age, and uas born in England, and was educated at Christ's Hospital. Quite recently lie obtained leave to go to London, where he v/ns married. All his relatives "are in England.

Mr A. E. Whyte, secretary to the Wellington Racing Club and Consul in Wellington for the United States of America, has received advice that his bi other, Lieutenant Campbell Whyte, of the 10th Royal Fusiliers, has been killed in action in France. The deceased, who was in business in San Francisco with one of his brothers when war was declared, immediately "wont to England, where he onlisted. He had been i\ prominent golf player, and during his residence at San. Francisco twice won the championship of that city.

Second-Lieutenant Thomas Darling Ivor, who was killed in an air raid at Salonika, on June Ist, was the youngest son of Air Thomas Ker, of the Beeches, Pnrley, Surrey, lately of the Indian Public Works Department, and was 22 years of 'age. After passing through the Royal Military Academy, he was selected for signal service, and in January last, in command of A0 Cable Section, he proceeded to Salonika, where- he took part in several expedition* inland a.nd on the coast, and was attaclieu to the signal squadron of the ivnzac mounted division when lie was killed. i:Te was a grandson of the lata Major-General Thomas Darling. Ker, Indian Army, and a cousin of the late Corporal Douglas Ker, who was a son of Mr and Mrs G. D. Ker, of Palmerston North. Corporal. Ker was &> member of the staff of the Bank of Australasia, Marion, and left New Zealand with the Main Body, and was killed in action at Gallipoli.

Sergeant Harris Newman Buttle was killed in action in France on July 9th. Sergeant Buttle was 24 years 6i age and the only son of the late Rev. J. N. Buttle., of Christ-church. His mother is Mrs Buttle, of FitzgeHaJd Avenue. He was educated at the Boys' High School, where he was senior monitor in 1911, and captain,. of the cadets. He also played football in .the first fifteen. Since leaving the school he had been engaged in farming at Dunsandel.

A tablet erected to the memory of the late Sergeant Robert Roland Nairn, who was killed at Gallipoli on August 2nd 1915, was unveiled at St. Paul's Church, Auckland, by Colonel G. W. S. j Patterson, officer "commanding the Auckland Military, District, in the presence of a large congregation. The tablet lore the following words, liln. loving memory of Robert Roland Nairn, Sergeant 4th Reinforcements, Now! Zealand Field Engineers, who Avas killed at Anzae, in ?.n heroic attempt to save the lives of his comrades, August 2nd, ]910. ''Greater, love hath no man than this.' He held the office of vestryman, Sr.ndrt v-sc;hool superintendent, chojvster, and server in Ibis Church.- This" tablet is erected by the parishioners, friends, and comrades in loving recognition of duty." ' faithfully discharged towardsChurch, King, and country even unto dfeathj," "The circumstances* of Sergeant Nairn's death," s-.aid the vicar, the Rev, C. A. B. Watson, in "the courrse" oC his sermon, "'were the natural outcome of his character.'1 'He died as-ficv had lived, a brave and courageous man. He'! met his death after he had-made three vain attempts to1 extinguish the lyurningfuso of a bomb .in crder to sayo the lives of. several men who at ere in danger-. ■" .