OUR OWN FOLK.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 11332, 9 March 1915, Page 7

OUR OWN FOLK.

NEWS OF NEW ZEALAND SOLDIERS AND NURSES IN ENGLAND. (From On* Ui>v Corai K?rnMi>-.NT.] }.•« •N'HJ.N. •!;!.'!i:..ry 1!). L.i, ri..;;! I'l'i.e!' - M "> ;i 1-1 j ia , , !■,.> ~, ol W-ihutgon. i.... | , j;,. },<:}. BiUi;i!?un of the Kai-' msi ' 1 '!-!> in Lieuwho "'i 'V(".i »itli sumo «;V-;<„J m the Sonth African War. !... ivc'ii'.lv been able to send oul in :i.c N,.«- ZVnlutul Kxpnchtioiifirv t'oree in Fgvpt « large - Nr "' Zpdaad »•'£; worked l.v iho Mis.-oR Seddon (or the I'ifth ('iintil)l (lupin; the South AtViciin \> n. . . Or I' S Yiekeruian. ot Wellington, has joined the I?oyii\ Army Medical Corps, and U a surgeon at- Not ley HosP ".\lr J. C. Anderson has .joined tlio Hovnl Kugiiwrs. and i> at pvownt in barracks at Old Hronvpton, near Chatham. , Major i>ni;^aii. nf Wangauui, ancl liieut"nnnt-Colouol M Donald, both oi the Nou Zealand Expeditionary J'oree. have been invalided over to England. 'Hit, former is at present ii'ith his wife in Birmingham. and the latter is staving, »»t a. convalescent home lor officer's. kindly provided by a New Zealand lady in the country. Nurse Emerson, wife of Lieutenant Emerson. of the Now Zealand Expcditionary Force. has obtained a post in Queen Alexandra's Hospital nt Milhank. • u Nur.so S. C. »Tontvs r ot AVolhngtorij has receive dan appointment through tho War Office as nurse on_ it hospital shipLieutenant. H. 1,. Nathan is in the 67th Brigade of the Ftth Division ot the Roy it Field Artillery, and encamped at Bulford. _ Lieutenant G. TVishart \\iil. o« Otago, of the Royal Army Modieal (?orps, is now the pjnr medial officer to the Dt>tli Infantry Brigade, now in training at Andover. Lieutenant C. H. L-ouahnan. Palmerston North, is in the zUlth Battalion of the Royal Field Artillery, and encamped iit. Bulford. Lieutenant Lumg:. who received part of his training in Iving Edward's Horse, has exchanged to the East Surrey Regiment.

Lieutenant E. H Taylor has jonifcf the Ist Battalion of the Yorlvs and Lancasinre ."Regiment. Beconrl Lieutenaufc Frank Chilton, who ha.s joined the 3rd Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, is at. present at Park Abbey Wood, m Kent. Dr Campbell liegg is serving with the British Red Gross Society at Boulogne, where his headquarters ar& at present the Hotel do Paris. Lieutenant H. D. Robertson, of Wellington. is a member of the Royal' Army Medical Corps. Lieutenant Charles Campbell Mav is iti the 22nd Battalion of the 22nd Manchester Regiment, and'is now at Morecambe, in Lancashire.' Lieutenant G. S. Bogle, of Napier, is with the Royal Engineers at Chatham.

Dr Malono has joined tho Koyal Army Medical Corps, and is a surgeon at Netlev Hospital. ~Mr Li. Sten Hurle (Now Plymouth), is «i member of the Public Schools Battalion of the Royal Fusiliers, now bil'letted at Epsom. ■ The New Zealand Expeditionary Force which went out from Eulford to join tlie main force in Egypt, has been divided into two sections out there, one attached to the Army Service corps «ind the other to the Engineers. General Godley expressed liimsell; extremely pleased with the fine type of men who went, out from here. LONDON. February 2.

Lieutenant Johnston, son of Colonel Johnston, of Wellington, is in London on eight dux's' leave from the. front. It is very real joy, he remarked to a New Zealand .friend this week, shed a weather-beaten uniform for a few days for private clothes. So close does the mud cling in the trenches that it might almost he glue. Mi- Gordon T. Wix, son of Captain C. Mackellar Wis, well-known- in Nelson and Wellington, has joined the Universities and Public Schols Battalion, and it with his regiment at Epsom-

Mr R..F. Fotheriugham, of Dunedin, is in tho Remounts Department of the Army Service Corps, and is stationed at Deptford. J)r >S. tl. Hay, of Ota go, is on the staff of No. 14 General Hospital, with tho British Expeditionary h orce.

Lieutenant Oscar IVeyburg, of Wellington, brother of Major Frevburg, who was promoted for his services at the bombardment of Antwerp, is in the Royal Naval Division, now encamped at Crystal Palace. Lieutenant. A. A. Adams is in the 9th Battalion of the West Yorkshire Regiment, now at Bolton Park, Grantham. Mr W. H. I). Bell, son of the Hon W. 11. 1). Bell, of Wellington, is in King Edward's Horse. Private H. G. Lang, who was in tho 16th Waikato Regiment. in New Zealand, has joined the First Battalion of the Devon .Regiment, and is at Exeter. Sergeant. Ronald Gray, son of Mr Willia-m Gray, of Wellington, has been recently promoted, irom corporal in Khifl, Jii-jf-u-ard's Horse. J. W. Beicl, who came over from New Zealsird in 1908. is in the 16th Lancers. nov in Northampton. Gunner Guy Tsbnyt is in the 19th i: R " Battery of the Royal Field Artillery at Woolwich.

Mr W. G. Knyvett, of Feilding, came over with the Canadian contingent, and is in camy on Salisbury Plains. Mr H. Moutray Read, of Auckland, is with the -tid King Edwards Horse, and in camp at Melton .Hutments, near Woodbridge, Suffolk.

Captain C. Garsia, who joined the Ist Hampshire Regiment of the British Expeditionary Force, and has been out at the front, is at. present at Congresbury. in Somerset. Lieutenant W. F. Neil, F.R.C.S., has joined the R.A..M.C., ami is iti the Tenth General Hospitnl. of the British Fxpeditiona ry Force.

Lieutenant F. C. firoig (doctor) is in % H.A.M.C. "Private H. M. Pointer t« with the Third Field Ambulance of iho Royal Army eriicn 1 Corps. Sergeant R. Arthur is In the second troop of " A Sq uadrou of King Edward'.s Horse. :it present at Hunton Bridge. Hertfordshiro. Second Lieutenant ft. H. Marryat is in the sth. Battalion of the Worcestershire Regiment, encamped near i'lyinouth. Wws has been received that Lientenant E. A. Kill, formerly of the Melbourne, was one of those who went down in M.M.S. Formidable.

The following captains iu the New Zealand army hare been promoted to the rank of major-Captains Ohesney, Mickle and Hickey.