DESERTERS FROM HIS MAJESTY’S SERVICE

New Zealand Police Gazette, Volume XLIII, Issue 45, 13 November 1918, Page 653

DESERTERS FROM HIS MAJESTY’S SERVICE

From the New Zealand Expeditionary Force

Whangarei.— loth September last, on military warrant for failing to parade formedicai examination, Francis Henry Price, age thirty, height sft. 10in., labourer, native of New Zealand.

Whangarei. —loth September last, on military warrant for failing to parade for medical examination, Daniel McCarry, age forty-one, height 5 ft. 8 in., labourer, native of New Zealand.

Whangarei. —loth September last, on military warrant for failing to parade for medical examination, Archibald Joseph Morris, age forty - one, height 5 ft. 8 in. .driver, native of Australia, medium build, fair complexion, brown hair, blue eyes; usually dressed in a grey dirty suit and black soft-felt hat. He may be accompanied by a woman and child. (See Police Gazette, 1917, page 641.)

Dargaville.—loth September last, on military warrant for failing to parade for medical examination, F. J. Jackson, age twenty-six, height 5 ft. Ilf in., timberworker, slight build, thin features, blue eyes.

Newton. —28th June, 1917, on military warrant for deserting from Expeditionary Force, Walter Scott Dargaville, age twenty-nine, height 5 ft. in., labourer, native of Australia, medium build, dark complexion, black hair, hazel eyes, scar on left thigh. (See Police Gazette, 1917, page 476, and Photographs, page 1.)

Kawiiia. —loth December, 1917, on military warrant for failing to parade for medical examination, John Mahon, age forty, height 5 ft. 9 in., labourer, native of New Zealand, medium build, fair complexion, hair, and moustache, blue eyes.

Wairoa. —l7th June last on military warrant for deserting from Expeditionary Force, John James Connors, alias Percy John Connors, age twenty-seven, height 5 ft. 4f in., builder and contractor, native of Australia, stout build, dark complexion, brown hair and eyes, scar on left palm and right little finger, scars on aud under chin, at side of left eye, and between eyebrows. (See Police Gazette, 1916, page 200, and Photographs, page 26.)

Stratford.—2sth April last, on military warrant for deserting from Expeditionary Force, Bdward John Perrett, age twenty, height 5 ft. 5 in., farmhand, native of New Zealand, dark hair and complexion, brown eyes. The warrant referred to in Police Gazette, 1918, page 328, has been cancelled, and a fresh warrant issued.

Raetiiii. —3lst July last, on military warrant for deserting from Expeditionary Force, Bdward Coyle, age twenty-five, height 5 ft. 9 in., bushman, native of New Zealand, medium build, fair complexion, dark-brown hair, hazel eyes.

Raetihi. —loth September last, on military warrant for failing to parade for medical examination, Robert McCallum, age about forty, height 5 ft. 9§ in., shearer and bushman, medium build, dark hair and complexion.

Wellington. warrant for failing to proceed to camp, Henry Vine Collett, age twenty-three, height 5 ft. 7 in., tailor, native of New Zealand, medium build, sallow complexion, brown hair, blue eyes.

Wellington. —loth September last, on military warrant for failing to parade for medical examination, Thomas Cody, age twenty-one, height 6 ft., clerk, medium build, dark complexion, brown hair and eyes; usually carelessly dressed; well educated, and interested in chemistry.

Taranaki Street (Wellington). —loth September last) on military warrant for failing to parade for medical examination, Edward Williams, age thirty - three, height 5 ft. 4 in., medium build, fresh complexion, dark hair and eyes.

Taranaki Street (Wellington). —loth September last, on military warrant for failing to parade for medioal examination, James M. O’Hara, age thirty, height 5 ft. 7 in., labourer, native of Ireland.

Taranaki Street (Wellington). —l4th August last, on military warrant for deserting from Expeditionary Force, James Joseph Conlan, age forty-one, height 5 ft. 8 in., miner, ruddy complexion, dark hair, blue eyes.

Mount Cook.— 2sth ultimo, on military warrant for failing to proceed to camp, Brie Balfour Young, age twenty-six, height 5 ft. 8 in., clerk, native of New Zealand, medium build, dark complexion, dark-brown hair, hazel eyes. He may be identical with man of same name referred to in Police Gazette, 1918, page 60.

Westport. —loth September last, on military warrant for failing to parade for medical examination, James Hogan, age forty, height 5 ft. 11 in., miner, native of Ireland, strong build, fresh complexion, dark hair, bowlegged. He may be identical with man of same name referred to in Police Gazette, 1913, page 234.

Culverden. —10-h September last, on military warrant for failing to parade for medical examination, Thomas Anderson, alias Thomas Bugene Anderson Mouson, age thirty, heightsfc. 10in., labourer, native of New Zealand, slight build, fair hair and complexion, blue eyes, clean-shaved, artificial upper teeth ; usually dressed in dark clothes. (See Police Gazette, 1917, page 112.)

Reefton. —10th September last, on military warrant for failing to parade for medioal examination, Henry Morris, age about forty, height about 5 ft. 9 in., miner, medium build; erect gait.