DESERTERS FROM HIS MAJESTY’S SERVICE.

New Zealand Police Gazette, Volume XXXII, Issue 50, 18 December 1907, Page 498

DESERTERS FROM HIS MAJESTY’S SERVICE.

From H.M.S. "Powerful.” William Ernest Morrison, age twenty-three, height sft. 5$ in., private R.M.L.1., dark-brown hair, grey eyes, fresh complexion ; deserted on 23rd November, 1907, at Sydney. Thomas Whilde, age nineteen, height sft. 6in., ordinary seaman, dark-brown hair, grey eyes, dark complexion, scar on front of left elbow and on right side of forehead ; deserted at Melbourne on 14th November. John Alfred Townsend, age twenty four, height 5 ft. 8 in., stoker, brown hair, grey eyes, fresh complexion, stroke on right forearm ; deserted at Melbourne, 15th November.

William Henry Broughton, age eighteen, height 5 ft. 4§ in., A. 8., auburn hair, blue eyes; “x” “In loving memory of my mother,” and angel’s head on right forearm ; deserted at Melbourne, 15th November. Willie Ward, age twenty-five, height 5 ft. 7f in., stoker, brown hair and eyes, fresh complexion; deserted at Melbourne on 15th November.

Ern Babington, age twenty-seven, height 5 ft. sJin., private R.M.L.1., brown hair, grey eyes, fair complexion, scar on left eyebrow and left side of neck; deserted at Sydney, 27th November.