ROLL OF HONOUR

Timaru Herald, Volume CIV, Issue 15903, 6 March 1916, Page 5

ROLL OF HONOUR

HOSPITAL REPORTS. Admitted to Walton Hospital. —Private G. Manders. Engineers.—Sapper J. D. Smith. Fieid Engineers (British Section). — Sapper E. A. Hodges. AN AUSTRALIAN LIST. " •'•'■•■• SYDNEY, March 4. List 149 contains the names of tho following New Zealanders: — Killed in action, previously reported missing—Lance-Corporal A. McHolni, Privates C. O. Strachey, H. G. Howiett. Ill —Driver S. Oliver (second occasion), in hospital at Montazah; Sapper H S. Maxwell, at Zohcziveh; Privates J. N. Feenev and J. E. Haubon,' at Cairo: Private F. Kelly, at Heliopolis. Repo'ted out of danger.—Priv:vto AH. DavisReturned to duty.—Private S. C. Sim ms. BUGLER E. B. GABITES. Bugler E. B. Gabites, son of Mrs M. Gabites, of Timaru, who left for the Front with the Third Brigade from New South Wales and took part in the most strenoiis of the lighting on the Peninsula, was believed to have lost his life, his mother having received letters to this effect. Mrs Gabites received a letter from tho lion, secretary to the; Australian Red Cross Society (Queensland Division) stating that Bugler Gabites had been lying in an old Turkish trench with one of his feet blown off, cm the afternoon of 28-6-15. Mr E. M. Gardiner, a, discharged member of the 9th Battalion, has also written to Mrs Gabites. He that Bugler Gabites was killed in action at An/.ac on Juno 28, 1915, when with the writer he was hit by the cap of a shell which took his right leg off from the hip, and he died about 15 minutes later. Bugler Gahites was born and educated in Timaru and was a, very popular young man. These letter.? were received last week. On Saturday, however, Private Tlogan,. who had just returned from the Front, informed Bugler Gabitess brother that two Australian soldiers whose names and addresses were in his possession, had told him that they had seen Bugler Gabites in a Turkish trench on June 28, 1915. He was wounded in the leg, and had said to them that he would be all right in the- hands of the Turks. The two soldiers were carrying away wounded at the time but there was no possibility- of moving Bugler Gabites at the time. It is possible, therefore, that Bugler Gabites is still alive, a Turkish prisoner. Mrs A. Thomas, Catherine Street, has received a telegram from Sir Joseph Ward expressing regret that her son, who is at the Front, was ill, suffering from acute bronchitis.