PERSONAL.

Colonist, Volume LVIII, Issue 14500, 4 September 1917, Page 6

PERSONAL.

Captain H. H. Why to, who las been awarded the Military .Cross,'left New Zealand with the Main, Body, ~. and after%' seeing service in' llgypt . and Gallipoli went to France. He was in the Permanent Artillery three years before the war broke out. Captain Wliyte is a native of Oust.

Mrs Lublow, of Annesbrook, has received advice that her son iTivate H. Lublow was admitted to a hospital in Franco on August 13th suffering irom a severe attack of fever.

A-Press Association telegram front Dunedin roports the death of Captain Robert Strang, for many years marine superintendent of the Union Steam Ship Company.

Major E. A. G. Holdga.te, of Tiniaru, who was wounded at Gallipoli and again in France, and has recently returned to New Zealand, is spending a few days in Nelson with friends.

3klr and Mrs C H. Coote, of "Mountrath," Wakapuaka road, have been ad-^ vised by cable that their son Jack has been sent up for his commission.

Two sons of ex-President Roosevelt, Theodore and Archibald, landed in France a few weeks ago, and are attached to General PershingV headquarters staff. Their elder brother is with the British forces in Palestine.

.Lieut. I). C. Armstrong, of the tßifle Brigade, who was on' the staff 6f v i>he .• Bank of New Zealand in Wellington, is amongst the officers who received'the r Military Cross as a result of the fight at Messines,

Mr Wm. Rogers, manager; of tte Anchor Shipping Company, left Nelson for Wellington last evening on business connected with shipping affairs.

The appointments are announced 'of Mr J. W. A. Marchant, of Wellington as unofficial member of the North Island Representation Commission, vice Mr Wardell, deceased; and Mr H. Reeves, of Dunedin, unofficial momber of the South Island Commission, vice Mr C. S. Reeves, deceased.

( Lieutenant John E. Raphael,, the famous English footballer and cricketer, diect on June 11th from wounds received four days previously, aged 35. He represented • England at Rugby football on nine occasions, and for four seasons played cricket for Surrey, being captain in 1904.

Captain H. E. Mclvinnon, who "has had a bar added to his Military Cross, left Carterton with the Main Expeditionary Force, with the rank of lieutenant. He was wounded on G&llipoli, but afterwards recovered and proceeded to France, where he was promoted to a captaincy.

' Rifleman J. A. McCullough, reported wounded accidentally, is a son of Mr 3. A. McCullough, the well-known workers' representative on the Arbitration Court. Rifleman McCullough left New Zealand with the Sixteenth Reinforcement, and was previously wounded. He is twenty-five years of age, and was born in Christchurch.

Mr Bertram H. Fidler, a returned soldier, has been provisionally appointed to the position of secretary and organiser to the Marlborough Patriotic Society. He succeeds Mr H. M. Clark, who, having recovered from the injuries he sustained during the fighting in France, is rejoining the Engineers branch of the Forces, in which he held a lieutenancy.

Captain J. S. Fairchild, who left New Zealand with the Main Body on the staff of the New Zealand Medical Corps, and has seen service in Egypt, Gallipoli, and Sinai, ia at present In Auckland. He is accompanied by Mrs Fairchild, who has been engaged in Red Cross work at Salonika with a Canadian ambulance detachments Captain Fairchild will report at headquarters for duty in New Zealand.

Mr J. H. Williams, who before volunteering for tho war was .in business in Kaiapoi, and a member of the Borough Council, and left with the 27th Reinforcements on July 7th, recently sent a postcard to his wife from the trenches ''Somewhere in France" reporting "All well." In a letter written in June, Private Williams said he had been visited by his brother, C. Williams, one of the ship's company of H.M.S. Broke, who was upon leave to receive tie D;S. Medal from His Majesty the King. Both are the sons of Captain J. H. Williams, well known in Port Lvttelton.

Private Gordon Sheridan, the third son of Mr Charles Sheridan, of Spring Greek, who was killed in on the Western" front early £His month, was 23 years of age. When he enlisted he was first assistant at the "Wairau Dairy Factory, Marlborougfitown, and lie left New Zealand with tho Thirteenth Reinforcenients. Ho was a prominent figure in athletic circles, being a, member of the Moutere Football Club, a Marlborougb representative in the Buller Shield matches, and a member of the Awarua Tennis Club. A "brother, who is a sergeant-major and is * now ir. London, served with the Main Body of the New Zealand Expeditionary Forces, and v-as wounded at Gallipoli.

Mr and Mrs Oden, of WEakaronga, after waiting months for tidings of their son Oscar, who was reported missing on April 15th, have received word from him that he was wounded and is a piisoner in Germany, private Oden was with the West Australians and was one of tho Third Brigade, of GaUlpoli fame. Wounded there, he was invalided to England. After recovering he rejoined Bis comrades in France. In his letter he modestly says that he "was wounded in a bit of a battle for a village,' but apparently lie was one of +.hat band of heroes— West Australians —who were cut off from the rest of the s-rmj after lighting till their ammunition was gone, jumped over the parapet and rushed at the foe with the bayonet, disappearing in a cloud of smoke and dust. Private Oden says his mates were all wiped out. He himself was shot through the c eye. and was afterwards removed by the Germans and conveyed to. one of tleir hospitals, where he is doing well and is well treated.