Deserters from Her Majesty’s Service.

New Zealand Police Gazette, Volume VII, Issue 18, 5 September 1883, Page 150

Deserters from Her Majesty’s Service.

Deserted from Her Majesty’s ship “ Diamond,” at Sydney, between the 3rd July last and the Bth ultimo, — William Bellam, a native of Bridgwater, Somerset, a gunner, R.M.A., twenty-nine years of age, 5 feet 9J inches high, fresh complexion, light-brown hair, and light hazel eyes.

William Perry, a native of Andover, Hants, a gunner, R.M.A., twenty-four years of age, 5 feet 7£ inches high, fresh complexion, brown hair, and hazel eyes. Herbert Slade, a native of Loders, Dorset, an ordinary seaman, nineteen years of age, 5 feet 5 inches high, fresh complexion, brown hair, and hazel eyes. Stretchly Churchill, a native of Devon, a stoker, twentytwo years of age, 5 feet G inches high, fair complexion, darkbrown hair, and blue eyes.

Emanuel Reynolds, a native of Northampton, private, R.M.L.1., twenty-three years of age, 5 feet 7 inches high, dark complexion, brown hair and eyes. William Little, a native of Devonport, an able seaman, twenty-nine years of age, 5 feet 4 inches high, fresh complexion, brown hair, and blue eyes. Thomas Hughes, a native of Lendon, near London, a signalman, twenty-five years of age, 4 feet 11 inches high, fresh complexion, brown hair, and hazel eyes. Robert Jones, a native of Birkenhead, an ordinary seaman, nineteen years of age, 5 feet G inches high, fresh complexion, brown hair, blue eyes ; bracelet and “ Love EH ” on left arm. Thomas White, a native of Brighton, an ordinary seaman, nineteen years of age, 5 feet 6 inches high, dark complexion, brown hair, and grey eyes. James Hanna, a native of Belfast, an ordinary seaman, twenty-two years of age, 5 feet 4 inches high, fair complexion, red hair, blue eyes, scar on cheek and forehead. A reward of £3 each is offered for their arrest, in addition to £5 reward offered by the Colonial Government.