BADGES.

Observer, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 28, 16 March 1918, Page 15

BADGES.

Auckland will soon be one mass of badges, as. the new Government badge is being issued. ''Returned Soldiers are advised that the R.S.A. badge is still the only badge which proves a man to have seen service overseas, as the Government badge applies to all men on home service and men discharged from camp. 9 9 9 E. Nelson, 12/607, is again in hospital, and has undergone an operation. He is reported to be going on satisfactorily. ■@ eg, eg, Another of our members, SergeantMajor Frederick Holmes, died at the Auckland Hospital last week from heart "disease. The funeral took .place at Waikumete Cemetery on Monday, March 4. Deceased Avas accorded a military funeral, the firing party being from the N.Z.R.A. and the Avliarf" guard. The Returned Soldiers' Association and the Defence Department Avere represented. Ser-geant-Major Holmes served in the Imperial Forces for 23 years,, most of the time in the Coldstream Guards. He had seen active service in the Boxer campaign in China, Boer War,

and also saw service in India. He was, after his discharge from the Imperial Army, in charge of the police at Rarotonga, and came to New Zealand with the Niue Islanders. Sergeant-Ma jor Holmes also saw service with the New Zealand Expeditionary Force.