ROLL OF HONOUR

Timaru Herald, Volume CVII, Issue 16524, 20 April 1918, Page 7

ROLL OF HONOUR

CASUALTY LIST.

Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, April 19. Casualty list No. 833 contains tho following names for Canterbury Military District> KILLED IN ACTION. March 30—April 6. Coster, Alfred! Cyril Clifford (A. Coster, Kngsdown, f.). Aitken, Robe. Francis (Robert 1 Aitikemi, Pleasant Point, f.). Cleere, Richard (Ireland). Griebel, Geo. J. (Ohoka). Hammond, Lewis B. (W. B. Hammond, Akaroa, f.). Mackay, Roderick (Miss Mcßae, Tiniaru, aunt). Menzies, AVm. Rutledge (W. Mcnzics, Waimate, f.), Nclsion, Harry (H. B. Nelson, Oxford, b.). Sangwell, Walter H. P. (Westporfc). DIED OF WOUNDS'. O'Sullivan, Patrick (Ireland). Todd, Ernest Ashley (Miss E, M. Todd, Kaiapoi, s.). • MISSING" Crawford, George A. (Greymouth). WOUNDED. ' March 2&-30. ; Boss, Jack Sydney (Hokitika). Bramner, Ernest (Mrs E. Brammer, Sydenham, w.). Steel, Stanley M. (F. H. Stael, Cliristichureh, f.) Vague, "VVm. 15. (E. Vague, Papaoiui, • *•>' Pneslb, Edward James (Otira).

Wounded and admitted to hospital, April 6—ll: Rolls, Georgo W. (S. Rolls, Hillsboi'ough, f.). Woolf, Harry Arthur, Lieutenant (London). Trembath, W. (Waitaha). Wright, William F. (Mrs Wellington, Spreydiom, s."). McCormac-k, Eugene T. (Mrs B. McGowan, St. Albans, 111.). HOSPITAL REPORT. The following South Canterbury names appeal - in an, official hospital report:— Romovied from dangerously )U list— Private P. Allen (Temuka). Still seriously ill—Private J, Wade (Temuka).

Severe cases—Private W. Bain (Fairlie), L. J. E. Calvert (Timaru). Not severe cases—Privates I). 13 el I, J. J. Gardner, W. It. Ilardwick (Timaru), A. S. Davis (Temuka), W. JSsler (Sutherlands), j. ]). Haar (Winchester), C. R. Hay (Morven), C. Johnson (Arundel).

Private R. W. Menzics, reported l today killed in action, was a son of Mr W. Menzies, of the C.F.C.A. Stores, Waimate. He was a pupil of the* Timaru Boys' High School and later became a relieving teacher there. Ho was on. tho staff for about a year, and! immediately hie reached '2O, tho recruiting age, in July last, ho volunteered and went into camp. This is tho second member of tho High School staff to lose Itis* 'life, Lieut. AT. O'Connor being reported killed in action in Thursday's "Herald."

Private advices received from tho Base Records:—

By Mr A. Coster, Kingsdown, Iliat his soil, Privato Clifi'ord Coster, */as killed ui action in Franco oil March 30 th.

By Mrs Gardiner, of Deo Street, that her .son Richard had been wounded in an arm and log. Privato Gardiner left with tho '2otha.

By Mrs G. Hardwick, that her son, W. R. Hardwick, has been admitted ■to hospital in Franco suft'oring from gastritis. This is tho second timo Privato Hardwick has been in hospital. Ho was wounded in tho Sommo battle.

By Mr Robert Aitken, of Opihi, that his fourth son, Privato R. F. Aitken, was killed in act-ion in Franco on April Bth. Tho deceased used to work in tho Totara district, and vas very popular because of his cheerful manner and upright character.

By Mrs G. Smith, AVhito Street, Waimataitai, that her son, LanceCorporal B. T. Smith was admitted to hospital in Franco between April 4th and Gtli, suffering from gunshot wound in the arm. This is the fourth timo that Lanco-Corporal Smith has been wounded.

Private _ Harry Reeves, reported wounded in yesterday's paper, is a native of Christchurch, and previous to leaving w.ith tho Now Zealand Riflo Brigade was in the employ of Mr If. M'ayo, Timaru.

Word has been received that Liout. Guy Henderson, lately of tho staff of Morton and Pearson, lias been admitted to hospital in France, ivith a sqvovq attack of fever.

Mrs Smallndge, Otipua Road, las received a letter from tho High Commissioner tJiat her son,, Rifleman A. Holmes, who has contracted a everJ illness, is doing well in the Now Zealand hospital at Oatlands Park, Wal-ton-on-Thames. Rifleman Smalh>, left witJi tho 26ths.

THE LATE MAJOR ROGERS, D.S.O,

The following letter from Coll Sykea, N.Z.1 1 .A., may be of interest to tha many friends wno have expressed their sympatiiy on the death of Major Vic toRogurs, D.S.O.—

'■He was with me yesterday afternoon on a court martial, and left before me to go up to his Battery. Ho must liavo been caught in y. shell storm or tliio load, as the first wo knew was that he had been picked up and taken on to a dressing station, lio had been lilt on the head by a largo fragment of shell, and ilids pocket book, pay book letter and so on that ware in his breast pocket had' been riddled. Death was instantaneous.

"1 personally feel his loss more deeply than that of any of tiio officers under my command. He started with me in the Second Battery, and has been with me all tin-ought except for the Sommo, where ho was in t command of tho Eleventh Battery. I ani glad to say that though, lie was not serving under mo at tho time, I was instrumental in getting him recommended for tho D.S.O. tliat lie earned so well. My Headquarters were eloso to his Batterv or rather the remnant of it, for ho seldom had more than a gun or two i.n action, and had to ehnngo his por.i. ton frequently But yet he -was always ehwrful and hard at it. He was in (rall poli With mo, and tTioueh a subaltern commander) tho Fifth Batterv mere fnr a long time. He commanded tho sa.mp Battery at Messinos and Nieu nort. and at other plaeas. Ho d : d uniformly w°ll, was tW'"eo wou"ded, a»d was as aallnnt, nn offieer as T have evemet. Ho will be verv hard to ropla™. Tr. will bo ,Fomo consolation to vou to kn*w that a-Vl l,i, dutv eaMnntlv. and W fti|, Pnf i without knowine it a groat mercy these days." '