ROLL OF HONOR

New Zealand Tablet, 19 August 1915, Page 29

ROLL OF HONOR

PRIVATE 1 FRANK GILLESPIE, OTUREHUA. A/ Private Frank Gillespie, of the Otago Infantry Battalion, who died of enteric at the Dardanelles, was the third sou of Mr. George F. Gillespie, Oturehua, Central Otago. LANCE-CORPORAL J. C. T. FOLEY, STRATFORD. Lance-Corporal John Cyril Terence Foley, who was killed in action at the Dardanelles on July 17, was the fourth son of Mr. Michael Foley, of Stratford. Mr. Foley’s second son, Lieutenant W. R. Foley, is in camp at Palmerston North, and the third son, Trooper M. F. Foley, is in Egypt, having gone with the Fifth Reinforcements. LIEUT.-COLONEL MALONE, STRATFORD. ■ Lieutenant-Colonel William George Malone (commander of the Wellington Battalion of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force at the Dardanelles), who has been killed in action, was born in 1859. lie was educated privately in England and France, and arrived in New Zealand in 1880, serving in the Armed Constabulary Force for two years. lie then settled on the land in the Stratford district, and while farming took up the study ol the law, and qualified as a solicitor in 1894. Abandoning farming, lie built up a legal practice, which .rapidly extended from Stratford to practically every town in Taranaki. lie passed as a barrister in 1899. lie was a member of several local bodies, and he always took a keen interest, in defence questions. In 1900 he was appointed captain of 11 Company. Ith Battalion, Wellington (Taranaki) Rifle Volunteers, captain and adjutant in 1909, major in 1905, and lieutenant-colonel commanding the llth Regiment (Taranaki Rifles) in 1910. 1 1 e" unsuccessfully contested the New Plymouth seat at the byelection in 1907. Two sous—-Terence and Edmond alone—have been solving at Gallipoli, and both have been wounded. A third—. Maurice is a member of the Sixth Reinforcements. and a fourth —Brian -served in Samoa, and lias enlisted again. A daughter—Miss Nora Malone —is nursing with the Red Cross ‘somewhere in Europe,’ and Mrs. Malone, it is understood, is at present residing in England. Writing to a triend some little, time ago Colonel Mai paid a fine tribute to Ids men. lie wrote: I love these men of mine-— heroes all, as brave as brave can be. I am under censor rule, but I must tel! you that the Wellington Infantry Regiment has turned out all that one could wish. The men are splendid, and as brave as they make ’em, being cool and enduring. There are no better soldiers in the world. I cannot tell you all of the great work they have done, and I cannot tell you of the losses. The hardships are really solid. The men have been fighting night and day ever since April 97 tip (ill midnight of the 12th hist.’