CATHOLIC OFFICERS AT THE FRONT.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXVIII, Issue 8, 22 February 1900, Page 5

CATHOLIC OFFICERS AT THE FRONT.

The Wirkly lv i/inti rof a recent dale gives the following list of Catholic officers serving in the British army in South Africa, and the names of the schools where they were educated — Lieut.-General Kelly-Kenny. C.8., commanding- (ith division ; Colonel W. F. Stevenson, M.U.. R.A.M.C., Principal Medical Officer (lines of communication) ; Lieut. -Colonel M. D. OX'onnell, R.A.M.C. ; Bt. Lieut.-Colonel R. J. Tudway (Essex Regiment), commanding Mounted Infantry, 2nd Brigade, Cavalry Division ; Major Arthur Hamilton, <ith Dragoon Guards . Major N. J. R. Blake, 2nd in command, Middlesex Regiment ; Major A. Keogh. M.D., R A.M.C ; Major F. A. B. Daly. R.A.M.C. ; Captain E. A. Herbert, C.ih Inniskilling Dragoons, Captain T. H. () Brien, Loyal North Lana^hire Regiment. Rev. Father lewis J. Matthews, Chaplain. Hrd Class; Rev. Father William Keatiuge, Chaplain, Ith Cla^. Clongowes. — Lieut.-General Sir C. Francis Clery. X.C.8., commanding 2nd Division . Lieut.-Colonel Edmond J. Gallway, commanding Somerset Light Infantry ; Lieut.-Colonel W. Donovan, R.A M.C., Principal Medical Officer, Cavalry Division ; Major R. J. Copeland, MB., R.A.M.C; Dr. Thomas Crean, Imperial Light Horse, wounded at Elands Laagte , Dr. M. Corcoran, R A M.C. ; Dr. Geoffrey Gill, R.A.M.C. Private School — Major-General Howard. Oscott. — Colonel Ivor Herbert. C 8.. late Grenadier Guards ; Major G. N Prendergast, King's Koyal Rifles . Capcuin R. Longue- ] ville. Coldstream Guards; Lieut. Percy D. Fitzgerald (1 1th Hussars), Indian Cavalry Contingent ; Mr. Frank R. Mandy, Captain Kimberley Veterans. Stonyhurst — Liout.-Colonel McCarthy-O'Leary, commanding Ist •South Lmcashire Regiment: Colonel J. A. Clery, M.8., R.A M.C. ; Colonel I. ,J Galluty. M D.. C.H., R.A.M.C. ; Captain P. A. Kenna, \'.C. (21st Lancers), staff , Captam E. S. Bulfin (Yorkshire K'giment), staff; Captain .John White, Shropshire Light Infantry; Captain G. Molyneux (Durban Light Infantry) : Captain Edward Molyneux (1 2th Kengal Cavalry), attached to the Natal Carbineers ; Captain J. K. Whyte, 2nd Lancashire Fusiliers ; Captain F. C Loftus, Royal Inniskilling Fusilieis ; Lieut. W. White, Scottish Rifles ; Lieut. L. Creagh. Manchester Regiment . W. J. Maxwell Scott. Cameroni.uis ; Lieut. W. T Synnott. R.A , Mr. T. Stapleton, B.S.A. Police ; Midshipman M. Maxwell Scott, R.X. Oratory. — Major Lord Edmund T.ilbot, 11th Hussars (lines of communication) ; Major Baker, R.A ; Captain John A. Bell-Smyth, King's Dragoon Guards (A.D.C. to General Lord Methuen) ; Captain Stephen Pollen, Wiltshire Regiment , Captain W. Saunders. Suffolk Regiment ; Lieut. Adrian Cave, loth Hussars ; Lieut. M. ArcberShee, 19th Huss-ars . Lieut. E. Longueville, Coldstream Guards; Lieut. C. Chichester, Somerset Light Infantry : Lieutenant R. H. Mierp, Somerset Light Infantry ; Lieut. A. E. Macnamara. Royal West Surrey : Lieut. C. Berkeley. Welsh Regiment : Lieut. H. Kane, South Lancashire Regiment ; Lieut. W. Butler-Bowdon. Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry ; Lieut E. Bellingham, Royal Scots ; Mr. Wilmot Vaughan (late 20th Hussars) ; Mr. Francis Pope, M.I). ; Mr. F. Murray, Mafeking ; Midshipman W. A. Egerton, H.M &. Doris. Beaumont.— Major T. M. M. Berkeley, Black Watch . Captain V. J.Kelly, Royal Irish Rifles ; Captain Frank Fuller, R E. • Captain Harrihon, R.E. ; Captain Evelyn M. Woo* 1 ; Lieut Carlos Hickie, Ist Battalion Gloucestershire Regiment, wounded at Rietfontein ; Lieut. Cuthbert Fuller, R.E. : Lieut. James Lyons, KJtb Hussars ; Lieut. J. L. Lawlor, Gth Inniskilling Dragoons ; Lieut. Peter van den Nest, l'Jth HußHars ; Lieut. W. R. Codrington. 11th Hussars ; Lieut, the

Hon. Reginald Forbes, Gordon Highlanders ; Lieut. 11. E. Green. Scottish Rifles ; Lieut. Charles Wood, Northumberland Fusiliers ; Lieut. X M. Vaughan, 3rd Grenadiers, wounded at Belmont ; Lieut. 0. T. Martin. Highland Light Infantry, traffic manager at Durban . Lieut. \V. M. Weldon, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers ; Mr. Duke Lattey. Cape Mounted Uittes ; Mr. J. Burnand, Cape Mounted Police. Woburn (Lord PetreV) —Captain H. F. Clifford, Suffolk Regiment, Moltingham House.— Captain Philip Clement Scott, A.S.C. ; Lieut. J. Ingram, Gloucestershire Regiment. Eton. — Lieut. Cecil Harrison. 2nd Battalion Rifle Brigade. Westminster. — Lieut. L. K. D'Arcy, Loyal North Lancashire Regiment. Weyhridgp.— Lieut. J. A. Bryne (Inniskilling Fusiliers), now with the Devonshire Regiment. Ft. Edmund's. — The Rev. Father W. B. L. Alexander, chaplain, 2nd Class ; the Rev. Father E. M. Morgan, Chaplain. 2nd Clasa ; the Rev. Father Edward Ryan, Chaplain, 3rd Class ; Lieut. J. W. Leake, R.A.M.C. Downside — Lieut. W. J. Gallwey, Natal Contingent (prisoner); Mr. C. dt- la Pasture, Mr. A. Pursell, Mr F. Worswick, Mr. A Sidgreaves. Mr. B. Ware, Mr. Mackey. (We are informed that the above are on the Rhodesia and Bechuanaland borders.) St. Charles'. — Lieut. A. L. J. M. Kelly, Royal Irish Fusilierb (taken prisoner at Nicholson's Nek) : Rev. R. F. Collins, Chaplain, Ist Clasf. Mount St. Mary'y. — Lieut. R. Chisholm, Cameronians. Ampleforth. — Mr. George Melvill, Cape Mounted Rifles ; Mr. Sebastian Smith, Cape Mounted Rifles ; Mr. Cyril Swarbrick, Cape Mounted Rifles : Mr. Vincent Hansom. Cape Mounted Rifles. RatcliiFe. — Major Francis Lambkin, M.D., with the 13th Hussars. Ramsgate. — Major Gerrard. M.8., R.A.M.C. ; Dr. L. Gerrard Carre. Jesuit College, Cork.— Major R. E. Kelly, R.A.M.C. li.f.P. — Colonel D. Scott Chisholme, sth Lancers, commanding Imperial Light Horse, killed at Elands Laagte, October 21 ; Mr. J. Forrester Cunningham, Imperial Light Horse; Captain Knapp, Imperial Light Horse, killed in a reconnaissance at Ladysmith ; Lieut. Francis Owen, Nth Bombay Infantry, killed near Gras Pan on November 24 ; Mr. Nicholas J. Walsh, Colonel Baden-Powell's Light Horse, killed at Maf eking on October 15 ; Mr. Hubert Joseph Wolseley, Imperial Light Horse, killed at Elands Laagte on on October 21. Several of the Canadian and Australian officers are also Catholics, including three officers of the Sydney Irish Rifles, Major Murray, Major Lenehan, and Captain Garvan who left with the second, and Lieutenants Mclnerney, Heritage, Thorn, and Campbell who left with the first Australian contingent.