ROLL OF HONOUR.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Issue 1456, 21 March 1918, Page 27

ROLL OF HONOUR.

One of Auckland’s best known bowlers, in the person of Lance-Cor-poral Wm. Baildon, was killed in action on February 5. He was the sixth son of Mrs. I. and the late Wm. Baildon. As a member of the Grey Lynn Bowling Club, he gained much success in club and open competitions, and during his last season skipped the winning team in the club fours, and won the Grey Lynn Labour Day, Mt. Eden Anniversary Day, and Onehunga King’s Birthday tournaments —a highly creditable record. The winners of the last mentioned tournament were composed of soldiers from the Trentham Camp, the men at the time being up on their final leave, and they went through undefeated. The late Lance-Corporal Baildon possessed the true sporting spirit, and his popularity was evidenced by the numerous cards and messages of sympathy received by his mother. His younger brother, Sergeant H. L. Baildon, of the Machine Gun Corps, is at present in the Brockenhurst Hospital suffering from wounds in the right arm and thigh. Corporal Leonard Ivey Joseph McCarthy, reported killed in action at the front on February 17, 1918, was a son of the late Mr. John and Mrs. Mary McCarthy, of Newmarket, Auckland. He was born at Newmarket in 1891, and was educated at the Remuera Convent and Marist Brothers’ School. He entered camp at Trentham with the 12th Reinforcements in January, 1916, and was attached to the Commandant’s office there for some months, eventually leaving for active service with the 15th Reinforcements. Corporal McCarthy took part in the big battles of Messines and Passchendaele Ridge. At the time of his enlistment he was employed as a despatch clerk in the Telegraph Department, Christchurch, having been in the employ of that department since leaving school. He was a keen lover of sport, taking an active interest in the various pastimes in connection with the Telegraph Department, and was highly esteemed by a

wide circle of friends. The late Corporal McCarthy comes of a good fighting stock, his father, Mr. John McCarthy, having arrived in New Zealand with the 18th Royal Irish Regiment, and with whom he fought in the Maori War. His brother (Gus.), who left New Zealand with the 9th Reinforcements, is still on active service.