ROLL OF HONOR

New Zealand Tablet, 16 August 1917, Page 19

ROLL OF HONOR

SERGEANT PATRICK REIDY. Mr. J. Reidy, of Kyber Pass, Auckland, has received news that his son, Sergeant Patrick Reidy, was severely wounded in the recent fighting round Messines. Sergeant Reidy left with the 3rd Battalion, N.Z.R.8.. and had been eighteen months in the firing line. He is an ex-pupil of the Marist Brothers, Auckland. His sister is a nurse at the New Zealand General Hospital, Brockenhurst, Two of his brothers, Dan and Martin, aro at present in camp. SERGEANT DAN O'LEARY. Advice has been received by Mr. and Mrs. O'Leary, of Upper Hutt, that their son, Sergeant Dan O'Leary! was killed in action in France on July 10. Deceased was a nephew of Messrs. James and Steve Dealy and of Sister Paula, St. Mary's Convent. He was born at New Plymouth in 1888, and was educated at the convent, Hill street, Newtown, and Hutt. He served his time at the Petone Railway Workshops, and after completing his indenture he "joined the New South

Wales Railways. Immediately oil the outbreak of war he enlisted in the 13th Battalion of the 4th Australian Light Horse. He served some time in Egypt, and then went to France. The late Sergeant O'Leary's only brother, Mr. Steve O'Leary (who served his apprenticeship at the same time in the Petone Workshops), is now chief engineer on an overseas vessel. Mrs. Cudby, of Waikanae, is a sister. "' : PRIVATE GEORGE McLAUGHLIN. ..-■• . Private George McLaughlin, who was wounded in the advance on Messines on June 7, is the eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. George McLaughlin, of Cheviot, where the family have resided for the past 21 years. He was born at Waikari 25 years ago, and, enlisting in the 9th Reinforcements, was kept back owing to illness in camp, and eventually left with the 12th Reinforcements. Prior to enlisting, he was employed by the New Zealand Express Co., Christ-church. On arrival in Egypt he contracted pleurisy, and on recovering departed for England. There he joined the 16th Reinforcements at Sling Camp, where he met his younger brother, both afterwards proceeding to France. He was admitted on June 9 to Brockenhurst Military Hospital suffering frOm severe gunshot wounds in the right thigh and arm.