ROLL OF HONOR

New Zealand Tablet, 19 April 1917, Page 45

ROLL OF HONOR

LANCE-CORPORAL ARTHUR J. KEATING. Deepest regret is expressed in the death of LanceCorporal Arthur James Keating, only son of Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Keating, of Hardinge road, Port Ahuriri, who was killed in action in Prance on February 27. Lance-Corporal Keating was educated at the Marist Brothers’ School, and after passing through the Napier Technical College joined the clerical staff of Messrs. Ellison and Duncan, for whom he worked right up to

the time of enlistment in January, 1916. He enlisted at the age of 19, and was in the Somme offensive and thereafter in the fighting line up to the time of his death. In the last letter received by his parents he wrote that he was going into the worst fight that had been on the Western front, and that if he came through that all right he would cable. Mr. Keating, sen., received a telegram from the Minister of Defence conveying the news that he had been killed in action. The late Lance-Corporal Keating was well liked, and his death will be regretted by many.

A cable message has been received to the effect that Maurice Scott, son of Mr. T. B. Scott, of Hamilton, and grandson of Mrs. Coady, Fort Buckley, Kaiwarra, has been severely wounded in the vertebral column on the 10th ultimo in France. Young Scott sailed with the 14th Reinforcements, and was with the Lewis Machine Gun .Detachment when he was wounded. He is now in hospital at Walton-on-Thames.