FOR KING AND COUNTRY.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 12069, 26 July 1917, Page 6

FOR KING AND COUNTRY.

RIFLEMAN L. L. B. COBDEN. Mr H. Cobdcn, 40. Ollivier's Road, Linwood. lias received advice that his son, Rifleman Leonard. Lionel Bums Cobden, hns been bounded. This is the second time he has been wounded,

the first occasion having been in the ■soinmp battle. He enlisted in Wan. gaum from the Railways, where he was «■* fireman. Ho has another brother at t»e front.

CORPORAL H. W. DUCKMANTON

Oo f^ ra , l H " W - who wis killed m action in France, war, the eldest soili of Mr and Mrs T. Duekmanton, of Hastings Street, Christchurch. J werity-four years of ago. he was educated at the West Cliristchurch and bycienhnm Schools, and loft New Zealand with the Eighth Reinforcements.

He was highly successful in the athletic side of life, making his mark as a hockey player and bicycle rider. He had boen in Franco since 1915. whore ho was twice wounded. Prior to enlisting lie was farming in the Oxford and Dunsandel districts. His younger brother, who- loft with the Fifth Reinforcements, has sinco been invalided back to New Zealand.