ROLL OF HONOUR

Waikato Times, Volume 88, Issue 13463, 18 April 1917, Page 2

ROLL OF HONOUR

. TXUi'E:? .!. U'RKE. Tr .!•: !•- i'-T-i.p, >.•; i as r""i; ;g. the •»• c.al Min (>i .Mr !• : -v-1«!, and wr hern at " iltoil al'O' t 0 ; ea'sJtigo. He aft.<rw: !-l w.- Med vkh his parent; at Te A lun, Wail ion, air! Matamata, w! •.!»"«■ iht■ ,nr.rl.v is we:! known. 1;on | arrive! in Euypt ' <• was transferred to the mounted se?t : on of an carii.-r draft. When last lie wrote lie was at the base ffiiiin in Egypt. Trooper Burke has two .-inters en active service—one Tiring in the Wa'trm-on-Thianui Hospital and the other on a New Zealand hospital shin. <;rxxEi? s. t. s. handing. Gunner S. T. S. Harding, died of wounds. wes a sen of .Mr and Mrs S. .T. Harding, of Hinuera, and was attached to the artillery section c} the mam hody of the Expeditionary Force. He saw servhe though the Oallipeli campaign mid in Frame, where he receivt>(l wounds which caused Ins death en ?ofh March. Stephen Harding was horn at Eketebuna, but was educated at the Masf'U'ton High School, He was en t*»o office staff of Messrs Dalgety and C(\, at Mnsterton, for over four years, leaving at the age of T years to join the nuvn body. The Hardings are a well-known Wairarapa family, having been resident in district for many years prior to migrating to the Matamata district. RIFLEMAN A. H. WTT/D.

Rifleman Aubrey Hamilton Wild, who has been killed in action in France, was horn at Hamilton '29 years ago. He was the fourth son of Mr F* A. (Jonathan) Wild, of Te Aroha. Prior to enlisting. he was engaged in farming with his brother at Aylesbury, near Te Aroha. He always took an active, part in military matters, and was several years in the Piako Mounted Rifles. He had'to undergo a severe operation to fit himself for act : ve service. Rifleman Wild came of soldier stock on both sides of his fanr' I *-. His father served through 'he Waikntn war in the 2nd Regiment Waikato Militia, and afterwards in the Mounted Constabulary.. An older brother served with the artillery in the South African war. and another brother, Tii •nioeter Allan S. Wild, "f «t)ie 4th Waikaio Mounted R'fles, Main Body, went through Gallipoli, and was invalided home before Christmas. His younger brother enlisted some months hack, and goes into camp on reaching Ins twentieth birthday next month. P'-irat" Chas Wihf, o7 Stanley Bay, killed in action last September, and one of five brothers on active service, was a censi'i. The Wild family is one of the oldest in the Waikato.