ROLL OF HONOR

New Zealand Tablet, 5 August 1915, Page 36

ROLL OF HONOR

CORPORAL JAMES L. O’BRIEN, CHRIST- ; '■ , ■ CHURCH. i y _ Advice was received in Christchurch last week (writes our Christchurch correspondent) that 8-943, Corporal James Lawrence O’Brien (Otago Battalion) had been wounded in the foot and hand by a fall of earth. Corporal O’Brien is a Christchurch boy, and a son of Robert and Mary O’Brien, 224 Lichfield •. street, and formerly of Tasmania. He is twenty-three years of age, and was educated at the Marist Brothers’ School, where he played with the second football fifteen. On leaving school he went sheep-farming, and was employed on the Molesworth Station, when he enlisted in the Main Force, and he was one of the Canterbury men who were sent down to complete Otago’s quota. When in Christchurch he was a sergeant in the Queen s Cadets, and afterwards was a member of the Native Rifles. He left with the Expeditionary Force as a private, and although he wrote and said tjiat he had passed his examination as a corporal, yesterday’s telegram was their first intimation that he had been promoted. Corporal O’Brien’s brother, ‘ Ted,’ went with the advance party to Samoa as a member of the Railway Engineers.

PRIVATE R. B. AMODEO, AUCKLAND

Mr. P. J. Amodeo, solicitor, the well-known Canterbury representative footballer, lias received advice that his brother, Private Reginald Basil Amodeo has been wounded in Prance, while serving with the Canadians. lie is the youngest son of the late Captain Frank Amodeo, of Auckland. Another brother has gone-to Australia to enlist there, whilst a third brother volunteered for service in this country. A fourth brother was living in Trieste when war broke out, and had to leave with his wife and children. For eight months he was in Venice and Bologna, and now he is in Genoa, where he will probably stay until the war is over. TROOPER F. T. PRYOR, HAMILTON. Trooper F .T. Pryor, who was wounded at the Dardanelles on June 9, and was later sent to Malta for treatment (writes our Hamilton correspondent), was a . very active member of St. Mary’s Tennis Club. He . is serving in the 4th Waikato Mounted Rifles. In a letter received by his parents he gives a very interesting description of the fighting and life in and out of the trenches. During the fifteen days of active service he had had up to the time of writing May 26—he was relieved from the trenches to recuperate for a few days. In regard to the food, he sgys it is good. He enjoys the strenuous life.