DESERTERS FROM HIS MAJESTY’S SERVICE.

New Zealand Police Gazette, Volume XLII, Issue 39, 3 October 1917, Page 574

DESERTERS FROM HIS MAJESTY’S SERVICE.

From the New Zealand Expeditionary Force

Whangarei.— l7th May last, on military warrant for faring to parade for medical examination, Lionel McLellan, age forty-three, height 5 ft. 10 in., drainer and labourer, fair hair and complexion, blue eyes.

Ngaruawahia. —4th May last, on military warrant for filling to parade for medical examination, James "Choat, age twenty-seven, height 5 ft. 7-in. y : butch&r and labourer, fresh complexion, brown hair ;- erect.gait.

• May.'last, on military, warrant for failing to parade for medical examination, -James O’Con nor, age thirty-two, height 5 ft. 6 in., labourer, native of Ireland; slightly deaf.

Gisborne.— 4th May last, on military warrant for failing to parade for medical examination, Leo Louis Kelly, age twenty-five, height 6 ft. in., bushman, native of Australia, fair complexion, fair hair ; usually dressed in blue-serge suit.

Gisborne. —4th May last, on military warrant for failing to parade for medical examination, Robert Selby, age forty, height 5 ft. 5 in., painter, native of England.

Gisborne. — 4th May last, on military warrant for failing to parade for medical examination, George Buckley, age twenty-two, height 5 ft. 7 in., labourer.

Wanganui. —22nd August last, on military warrant for failing to. proceed to camp, Joseph Davis, age about thirty-nine, height 5 ft. 4Jin., labourer, tanned complexion, brown hair and eyes.

Palmerston North. —22nd August last, on military warrant for failing to proceed to camp, Alfred Frank Cole, age twenty-one, height 6 ft., postal clerk, native of New Zealand, dark complexion, dark-brown hair, blue eyes.

Feathbrston. 3rd August last, from Featherston Camp, Patrick Dwyer, age thirty, height 5 ft. 9Jin., farmer, native of New Zealand, fresh complexion, brown hair, blue eyes. Next-of-kin, A. Dwyer (sister), Elgin, Ashburton.

Upper Hutt. —l3th August last, from Trentham Gamp, Robert Mullen, age twenty-eight, height 5 ft. 8 in., bricklayer, native of New Zealand, tanned complexion, brown hair, grey eyes. Next-of-kin, Mrs. John Mullen (mother), 81 Madras Street, Christchurch. He was last employed by J. Winlove, Waipukurau.

Wellington.— l7th May last, on military warrant for failing to parade for medical examination, Arthur Sydney Davies, age twenty-six, height 5 ft. 6 in., seaman, native of Australia, fresh complexion.

Wellington. —l7th May last, on military warrant for failing to parade for medical examination, Samuel Cameron, age forty, height 5 ft. 10 in., photographer, native of Australia, stout build.

Wellington. —2oth March last, on military warrant for failing to proceed to camp, Donald McDonald, age forty-four, height 5 ft. 3 in., seaman, native of Scotland, fair complexion, brown hair and eyes.

Wellington.—l2th July last, on military warrant for failing to parade for medical examination, William Charles Rowe, age twenty-six, height 5 ft. BJin., cook.

Wellington. —4th May last, on military warrant for failing to parade for medical examination, Edward Pine, age twenty-one, height 5 ft. 9 in., bushman and cook, native of Australia ; a disqualified jockey.

Wellington. —9th January last, on military warrant for failing to proceed to camp, Albert William Burton, age twenty, height 5 ft. 6Jin., night-watchman, native of New Zealand, fair hair and complexion, light blue eyes.

Ahaura. —22nd August last, on military warrant for failing to proceed to camp, John Daly, age twenty-nine, height 5 ft. 5J in., bushman, native of Australia, fresh complexion, blue eyes, brown hair.

Rangiora.— 4fch May last, on military warrant for farmer to parade for medical examina ion, William Molloy, age thirty-eight, height 5 ft. 6 in., labourer, native of Ireland, fair hair and complexion.

Christchurch. —4th May last, on military warrant for failing to proceed to camp, Joel Tressider, age thirtyfive, height 5 ft. 7 in., showman and hawker, fair complexion, curly fair hair, blue eyes; usually dressed in a blue suit, brown boots, and straw hat.

Dunedin. —l2th July last, on military warrant for failing to parade for medical examination, Owen Kane, age twenty-seven, height 5 ft. 4 in., fireman. He was paid off the s.s. “ Koromiko ” at Neweastle, N.S.W., on the 10th August, 1916.

Dunedin. —17th May last, on military warrant for failing to parade for medical examination, John McGullock, age thirty-two, height 5 ft. 2 in., steward, native of Scotland. He was employed on the s.s. “Victoria.”

Invercargill.—4th May last, on military warrant for failing to parade for medical examination, William Ryan, age twenty-four, height 5 ft. 6f in., labourer, native of New Zealand, fresh complexion, fair hair, hazel eyes. (See Police Gazette, 1915, page 800.)