OBITUARY,

Waikato Times, Volume 116, Issue 19459, 26 December 1934, Page 7

OBITUARY,

VICE-ADMIRAL GLOSSOP. United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright LONDON, Dec. 23. The death has occurred of ViceAdmiral John G. T. Glossop (retired), who commanded the Australian cruiser Sydney when she destroyed the German raider Enulcn in battle at the Cocos Islands. For that feat he was decorated by Britain • (C. 8.), France (officer of the Legion of Honour), and Japan (Order of the Rising Sun, 3rd class). Vice-Admiral Glossop served during the Samoan troubles of 1899, being also a midshipman of the Calliope when she alone of four warships outrode a hurricane in Apia. He married a Miss MoPhillamy, of Bathurst, New South Wales.

Although an Englishman by birth, Rear-Admiral Glossop was typically an Australian in temperament. He was the llflh son of the llcv. (!. (1, P. Glossop, and was horn in Twickenham, Middlesex, England. Of his brothers, two are, in Ihe church, one is in the army, and another is in Hie navy. The last-named was in Australia as a midshipman in about 1889, of his three sisters, one, in South Africa, is noted as an artist.

MR JOHN STRAUCHON. GJy Telegraph.—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Wednesday. The death lias occurred of Mr John Strauchon, ex-t'nder Secretary for Lands, aged SO years. MR H. S. HEWLETT. ;iiy Telegraph.—Press Association.) BLENHEIM, Wednesday. The death occurred this morning of Mr Herbert Stanley Hewlett, a wellknown nia-lstor. lie formerly resided at Christchurch.