THE ROLL OF HONOR

New Zealand Tablet, 24 June 1915, Page 35

THE ROLL OF HONOR

W-b NEW ZEALAND CASUALTIES. "C -V * The following is a list of some of, the Catholic soldiers, members of the/New.. Zealand Expeditionary-: Forces, who have fallen at the front ■ PRIVATE OWEN ROBERTS, PATEA. J . Mr. H. J. Roberts, of Patea, has received the. following letter from the Wanganui Company of Senior J Cadets in reference to his son, who died at Malta, as the result of "wounds received in the Dardanelles:—‘Deair Sir, —The officers, non-commissioned officers, and cadets of the above company desire to tender you their sincerest sympathy in the loss of your son, Owen. He was the color-sergeant of our corps, and a more efficient and - popular non-com. we have never had. We have lost agood comrade, but we know he bore his share of the fight bravely and well,, and we shall always remember him with pride, among the other brave lads of -New Zealand who have given up everything for the sake of our King and country. Yours sincerely, E. Hammond, Lieut., 62 Company, Senior Cadets, Wanganui.’ PRIVATE WILLIAM J. ALDER, MAHENO. Private William J. Calder, son of Mr. John Calder, Maheno, was killed in action at the Dardanelles onMay 2. The deceased was only 22 years of age. PRIVATE DENNIS O’DONNELL. Mr. O’Donnell, Thornbury, has received a telegram conveying to him the news of the death from a wound in the knee, received at the Dardanelles, of his second son, Dennis, who went away from Invercargill with the Main Expeditionary Force. He is the first from the Thornbury district to die for his country in the great war. He was born at North Wairio, and was in his 29th year. Before joining the Expeditionary Force,he was employed in the Maintenance Department, New Zealand Railways. He had been stationed at several places, in the Southland district, his last place of residence being Waimatuku. The deceased was highly ; respected bv all who knew him, and the people of the district sincerely sympathise with the parents, brothers, and sisters of the deceased in their bereavement.

Reference was made in the Cathedral on Sunday (writes our Christchurch correspondent) to the deaths in the action at the Dardanelles of the following Cath- / olic members of the Dominion Forces —Lance-Corporal Jas. Hand, Trooper Geo. M. Cleary, Private Douglas Boyd, Corporal Stanley Edward Woods, and LanceCorporal John Leighton Wildermoth : and at St. Mary’s Church to Corporal R. J. Petre. CORPORAL R. J. PETRE. t Corporal R. J. Petre’s death adds another name to the already long list of old boys of the Christchurch Boys’ High School who have fallen on the field of honor. Corporal Petre was the son of Mr. R. G. Petre, of the’ local railway staff, and a grandson of the late Hon. Henry Petre, one of the pioneers of Wellington. He was born at Reefton twenty-one years ago, and educated at the Convent School in Blenheim and Christchurch, and afterwards at the local Boys’ High School. On leaving the school he entered the schoo 1 of engineering attached to Canterbury College.' When the call for men came, Corporal Petre at once enlisted, and he sailed with the main body. He has two cousins at the front with the Force.

, PRIVATE ARTHUR JOSEPH WILLIS. Private Arthur Joseph Willis, killed in action at the Dardanelles on May 2, was the seventh son of Mrs. Willis, of 12 Halkett street, Christchurch. He was born and educated in Christchurch, but wa’S in Australia when the war'broke out. On August 1 he went with the Ist Australian Division, being in the gun section of the 3rd Battalion. PRIVATE T. G. HOSKINS, WELLINGTON. Private T. G. Hoskins, a member of the ,-ThirdBattalion First Infantry Brigade, Australia, who was wounded at the Dardanelles, died at the Alexandria Hospital on June 6. The deceased (writes our Welling-

| ton, correspondent) was a brother of : Mr. ■ P. D. Hoskins, of this city. /. 7' . ■ ; v- MISSING. - 4^ cy.- Private Robert John Sullivan, reported missing, (■ is ja! member of the Second Reinforcements, and Ts: 24 years of. age. - He was born at Opliir, and educated at ?the. public school there. After leaving school he became • a farin' laborer, and at the time Ihe enlisted he was • working for the Vincent County at Hawea on the county grader, He was a good rifle shot, and was a member of the county football'clubs. (Evidence of his keenness (to. get to the front is furnished by the fact tlxat he and his mate travelled all night, ■ taking turn about "on a e bicycle, from Hawea to Clyde, a distance of 40 miles, in order to get to Dunedin in time to catch the train in - which the Second Reinforcements left. Private Sullivan is the second son,.of Mr. and Mrs. D. Sullivan, 7 Ellis street, Dunedin, whose eldest son is a member of the Fifth Reinforcements. . WOUNDED. *• ¥-5; Trooper James Stephen Neylon, Otago Battalion, /son- of Mr. J. Neylon, Wairio, was wounded at the Dardanelles. Trooper.Neylon, who is about thirty years •pf age, was educated at the Catholic? school, Wrey’s Bush.