ROLL OF HONOR

New Zealand Tablet, 28 October 1915, Page 29

ROLL OF HONOR

TROOPER EDWARD WALSH, DUNEDIN. Trooper Edward Walsh, son of Mr. and Mrs. E. Walsh, Hanover street, Dunedin, who was killed in action at the Dardanelles on August 7, left with..the Main Expeditionary Force. The deceased, who was

23 years of age, was educated at t he Christian Brothers’ School, Dunedin, and was engaged in farming at Kurow. A younger brother of the late Trooper Walsh is at present at Trentham. and is to proceed to the Dardanelles with the Ninth Reinforcements.

PRIVATE J. P. J. DRISCOLL, SEADOWN. Private J. P. J. Driscoll, Seadown, Otago Battalion, wounded at the Dardanelles, is the sixth son

of Mr. Timothy Driscoll, Seadown, and is 24 years of age. He was educated at the Seadown Public School and the Kerry town Convent School, Prior to enlisting, he was employed in a grain store, and later on in a flour mill in Mataura. He was a very keen footballer, playing fullback for the Pioneer Eastern District Football Club. Tie left with the Ist Otago Reinforcements, and was wounded in the shoulder..

PRIVATE RICHARD COLLINS, WELLINGTON. Mr. A. Coles, of Petone, has received advice that his nephew, Private Richard Collins, who is an inmate of the Western Hospital, Liverpool, as a result of wounds received at Gallipoli, has had his left arm amputated. Private Collins, whose parents live at Limerick, Ireland, was an ex-student of St. Patrick's College, and when the war broke out was in the office of Mr. J. J. McGrath, solicitor, Wellington. He went with the Expeditionary Force to Samoa, and two days after returning to the Dominion enlisted with the sth Reinforcements. He is only twenty-one years of age.

MOSGIEL MEN IN HOSPITAL. Word has just been received from Sergeant D. J. Walls and Private E. M. Walls (members of an exBalclutha family whose parents now reside in Mosgiel) that they are in the same hospital in Cairo—the former through illness and the latter through a shrapnel wound in the head. Both were progressing favorably when the .advice was sent. They speak very highly of the attention given to the sick and wounded, especially by the New Zealand doctors and nurses.