FOR KING AND COUNTRY.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 12061, 17 July 1917, Page 6

FOR KING AND COUNTRY.

LIEUTENANT J. A. M. ALLAN,

Cable advico has been received that Lieutenant J. A. M. Allan, Royal Naval Air Service, was wounded in action on July 12. Lieutenant Allan is

the second son of Mrs A. Allan. Rorkvalo. Woikari. He has been on active service for the past two years, and until this occasion had escaped unscathed.

PRIVATE J. S. PATRICK. Word has been received that Private James Stuart Patrick was wounded in France on' Juno (>. Privato Patrick Mas previously wounded at the Soinino battle. He is the fifth son oi' .Mrs E. Patrick, Albemarle Street, Sydenham, and was born and educated in Sydenham. Previous, to enlisting in the Eleventh Reinforcements he was in the

employ of the New Zealand Farmers' Co-operative Association. ' He played cricket for the Sydenham Chili's Junior team, and is twenty-one years of ace. His younger brother left with the Fifteenth .Reinforcements, and is lighting in Franco. News has since been received that lie had sufficiently recovered from his injuries' to enable him to rejoin his unit.

GUNNER A. C. BARKER, Gunner Alan C. Barker, Thirteenth Now Zealand Field Artillery, who died on July 7 at Walton-on-Thames Hospital- of rapid consumption, following pleurisy, was horn at Lyttelton and was in his twenty-fourth year. He wa,s educated at West Christehuroh School, and in 1900 gained the Board of Education scholarship, his name being the first to bo placed on the honours hoard of that school. For the next three years lie "'as a pupil of Boys' High School, where he gained a senior free, place and also passed the Junior Civil

Service examination. Ho was of a rather (|iiiei and retiring disposition and took but. little part in athletics, although for some time a member of the Union Rowing Club. At the end of hit. school career he obtained a position in the Christehurch Meat Company's oflice and later on accepted an appointment in tho New Zealand Farmers' Co-operative Association, where his promotion was rapid, being held in high esteem by the management and heads of staff. At the time of his enlistment he had held the position if accountant at tho Hawarden branch of the association for two years. PRIVATE H. TEAGUE. Private Harry Teaguo (wounded) is the second son of -Mr and. Mrs F. A. Teague, f)0, Qufeen Street. Sydenham. Ho was born in March. 1897, and left with the Eighteenth Reinforcements.

Ho was educated at the Sydenham School, and prior to enlistment was employed in the locomotive department of the New Zealand railways. He was a member of tho Sydenham Cricket Club and also of the Sydenham Hockey Club.