PERSONAL.

Colonist, Volume LX, Issue 14871, 20 September 1918, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr J. A. \\allacc, Mayor of Motueka y,;Jio is in Class D of th« -Second Division vDhmteered for service recently, '™d IUI1 UI: S 1!OW Jjf-'en examined and classed lit; A by the Medical board '

Mr G. W. Palmer, of Brightwater, has been advised that his son, Private it. Palmer was wounded on September bon, this l>eicg tho second time.

1 . Sevgecnt Andrew , McConeirie, son of Mrs. McCpuchie, sen., of Vanguard street, has been granted six months 1 i furlough, and is now on his way to New ; Zealand. Sergeant McConchie left i with the Main Body. -& Mrs. Francis Barnett, of JLui^y street, has been advised that her son,. Private E. P. Barnott, was wounded -.>n» September sth. Private Barnett loft rsew Zealand with the Fourteenth Jce--1 ml'oreeni.euts, and has seen a considerable pi!i-iod of active service. He is an old boy of Nelson College, and was piii- ' ployed by Messrs Neal'e and Haddow ! before going to the v, ar. lriying-Lientenant S. Dawson, son of IMr Robert Dawson, of Masterton. who recently escaped from Denmark, where he had bnen interned, has been awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for couspu-iums bravery in connection with aerial fighting. Lieutenant Dawson has cabled to Mv Dawson that he and his three brothers, who are on active service, are well. Mrs McDuff Boyd, of Hastings, has been advised thut her vsou Sergeant W. R. Boyd. who left with the Main Body, has beou admitted to hospital suffering from lung trouble. Sergeant Boyd went 'through the CrallipoJi and Palestine campaigns, and was wcjnded at the battle of Suvla Bay on August Bth, iJJ'io. He has seen some very has'cl figiiting in, Palestine.. Word has been received by Mr. A. Largo, of Totara street, that his son. Private Alfred Largo, .previously reported wounded, has died of wounds. At the tim© of joining tho reinforcements Private Large was sheep farming in the Pelorus district. He was a popular young Fellow,'and .shooting parties visitiffg his place- were always given a hearty welcome. One of those who succumbed to the outbreak of sickness on - the transport conveying the F/orticth Reinforcements was Private E. K. Shepherd, of Kokako (Port Albert). The* deceased was Avoll known in the Motueka district as an' expert api>le-packer. He won the New Zealand championship for applepacking at tho recent Dominion show at Auckland.

The Governor-General, at Auckhmc yc-sterday, held an investiture of th< Order of the British Empire. All the recipients had been prominent ir patriotic: work. Lord, Liverpool alsc '•presented two medals to the next-of-kin of two soldiers of the New Zealanc 'Expeditionary Forces; these soldier: having died since the medals wen , awarded. A Military Cross was hand ed to Mrs. J. Hally, of Cambridge mother of the late Second-Lieutenam 0. Hally, and a D.C.M. was handed U Mrs. S. Bullock, of Auckland, mothei of the Lie Corporal W. XV. Bullock.— Press Association. .Cabled advice has been received thai Captain Aubrey Jackson, who enlistee irom Masterton and left with the Fourteenth Reinforcements,"has-been killed 'in action. ; Captain ■ Jackson was born and educated in Carterton. He was 4\4 years cf age. He had lived for somt years in Eketahuna and Masterton ir • . bot;3, Places? taking a very keen interest ;m ..Territorial matters. He leaves, a | widow and five children. ! Sapper Sylvester H. IJanlon, whe died at the Auckland Hospital wa.< j buried at the Uirkenhead &meter'v witlj military honours. The deceased was in • lls 25wi /ear, and was the son of the jlace M- William Hanion and Mrs Margaret Blundoll, of Northcoto. He left jiNew Zealand on active service with the second reinforcement, attached to the ; Mounter! Signal Troops. He was engaged in the operations on Gallipoli and lac.-r saw serviw in France. He ;returned invalided tezt May ami" was an inmate of the Hospital*'from that amo riMti) his death I . /' \ Lieutenant L. W. Dean, N.Z.F. V eldest son of the "He;-. Oliver Dean" o^ Napier, v.Jio left with the- Mrin BoW and sav>- four years' service , was killed in action on the 2nd inst Lituteiiriiit Dean, who ginned "his com-mission-on the field, was well known and highly esteemed' in Napier, v.\hcre rie. was born, and was also a very popular officer on the Reid. Ho -.vas also an active hockey and cricket-player and an enthusiastic member of the -Napier Sailing Club. Prior to leaving for the front he was in F Battery. & Sooontl-Lieutonant Alfred T. E. Burnard, v ho has made the supreme sacrifice m i'r.iiice. v.-as the only son of MrX ■Jiurnaiv-J of Christchureh, and* of ■the lato Mr S. E. Buvmrd, of Ashburton. iic v. as-born in Ash burton twenty-, iouv years ago, and at time of enlist-i nienc with the Seventeenth Reinforce-" mo:it v/as in the employ of Messrs Jiu-iioait and Jones, Ltd.,* and wa-< studying at Canterbury College. Leavmg .\ov>- Zealand as a private, he pro(■flvfiod m I'ra.aco in December, 1916 m:i. vi ■iuuo ; 1917, was gazetted as peonc-neutoKaut in the Third Canter-! oun JJjifctalion, Jiaving gamed his com- j mission'mhiMimnd. In April last I. P

,.as u-ameiTou to the Ist Canterbnrv Intantrj battalion. , "}' % ™. of Auckland, and for-! •norlv of wolhjijrton. bag. been advised! i'^nis son Lieutenant W. J. R. Hill.! or Auckland, has died of wounds Licv-I y.wv ; t hill wps -v member of the 1 !r:e:-nrv stnff of- fcho Auckland "Her-1 «.»'■' v'uon \v;ir ?,vokp- cut. and at once, vcLimtOTred tor servocc, and wont forwr;r«-! u-itr. the Expeditionary Force to Samoa, where he was known as one nthe joint, editors of the "Pall. Thro'"" I the hrsc active service paper published by a J\..nv Zeahuid Expeditionary Force! m tho present war. He afterwards went to agypt and Gallipoli, and wa-,! vonn-deci 3n action in France last year I and «unr> back to. New Zealand to romur Lj:^ - lic-f.lfch. He returned to t'rvvxv. ,!, few months aso. Lieutenant i hti! v.-iis iinjr:a;T3ffl. .Ro was a vei-y p-oed -ri-keter v,-;is a ijfo inoraber of the Wel'Sin^ion 3M>ot?iall Cluli, and was populr.r in press circles. I

Corporal- F 4 v«i ' manager of tho New X?/ 0"? 3,^ late" citiijn C onh rioS vp r SS OlT' a IJ-Wvn .-h-^v^i.^^^^^-oppod dead aoj-nin-/ ».?-..". V« <un °" Saturday iwii-trnM n 'h,v miWJwt. he was s , stitu t efo^heMiSr CoimCjloftheln-