DESERTERS FROM HIS MAJESTY’S SERVICE.

New Zealand Police Gazette, Volume XXXVII, Issue 29, 24 July 1912, Page 408

DESERTERS FROM HIS MAJESTY’S SERVICE.

Sydney.— Thomas Flanagan, age thirty-seven, height sft. 9 in., erect, labourer and stoker, dark-brown hair, grey eyes, smiling face, sallow complexion. Deserted from H.M.S. “ Drake,” 28th ultimo.

Ernest Thomas Brown, age twenty-one, height 5 ft. 5f in , page and steward, brown hair, grey eyes, pleasant face, sallow complexion. Deserted 28th ultimo. Edmund George Essery, age twenty - five, height 5 ft. 8 in., stout build, erect, engine-cleaner and stoker, black hair and eyebrows, brown eyes, long scowling face, -dark complexion, mole on side of neck, slouches. Deserted 2nd instant.

Charles Russell Tonkin, age twenty, height sft. 7in., erect, marine, brown hair, eyebrows, and eyes, Jewish nose, long face, sallow complexion, “ h ” tattooed on right forearm. Deserted 2nd instant.

Francis George Townsend, age twenty-eight, height 5 ft. 6 in., stooping build, painter and seaman, dark-brown hair, blue eyes, morose face, fresh complexion. Deserted from H.M.S. “ Drake,” 3rd instant. John McGilvray, age twenty-five, height 5 ft. 4in.» erect, railway porter and stoker, dark hair, blue eyes' smiling face, fair complexion, Scotch accent. Deserted from H.M.S. “ Drake,” 3rd instant.

Edmund Burr Durling Knight, age thirty-seven, height 5 ft. 7 in., erect, marine, brown hair, eyebrows and eyes, scowling face, fresh complexion. Deserted 2nd instant.

John Barton, age twenty-five, height 5 ft. 7 in., page and seaman, brown hair, high forehead, blue eyes, pleasant face, fair complexion. Deserted 3rd instant. John Haynes Bennett, age thirty-seven, height sft. 9 in., erect build, gardener and marine, iight-brown hair, small grey eyes, long smiling face, fresh complexion, one upper front tooth missing. Deserted 2nd instant.

Claude Algernon Burrows,' age twenty-six, height 5 ft. 8 in., thin build, erect, warehouse lad and Royal Marine, dark-brown hair, dark-brown eyes, Jewish nose, long smiling face, fresh complexion, effeminate voice and manner, indistinct tattoo-marks on left wrist. Deserted from H.M.S. “ Penguin,” 4th instant. John Crawford, age thirty-one, height 5 ft. 5 in., erect, moulder and marine, brown hair, grey eyes, fresh complexion, mole on left side of nose, birthmark on small of back. Deserted 2nd instant. Albert Porter, age twenty-five, height 5 ft. 5 in., thick set, fisherman and stoker, black hair, low forehead, brown eyes, dark scowling face, dark complexion, surly. Deserted from H.M.S. ‘ Psyche,” 27th ultimo. A reward of £3 each will be paid for their apprehension.

Prom H.M.S. “Encounter .” Sydney.— Charles Pope, age twenty-three, height 5 ft. 4 in., stoker, brown hair, brown eyes, fresh complexion, scar above right eye. Deserted 14th ultimo. Frederick Bridges, age twenty-four, height 5 ft. 8 in., seaman, dark-brown hair, hazel eyes, fresh complexion, scars on both knees, mole on chest and back of neck. Deserted 21st ultimo. Augustus James Watmore, age nineteen, height 5 ft. 8 in., ordinary seaman, brown hair, hazel eyes, fresh complexion, scar on left hand. Deserted 21st ultimo. Thomas George Rogers, age thirty-three, height 5 ft. 11 in., seaman, brown hair, grey eyes, fresh complexion, bruise on right shin. Deserted 20th ultimo.

John B. Hutchinson, age twenty, height 5 It. 9 in., seaman, light-brown hair, blue eyes, fresh complexion, cross with “ In Loving Memory of my Dear Mother ” on right forearm. Deserted 18th ultimo. A reward of £3 will be paid for their apprehension.