ROLL OF HONOR

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XLV, Issue 36, 5 September 1918, Page 28

ROLL OF HONOR

PRIVATE RANDOLPH McDONNELL. Private Randolph McDonnell, who died in Franco on August 22, from wounds, was the fourth son of John and Sarah McDonnell, of Fruitlands, Central Otago. Private McDonnell was born at Bald Hill Flat 27 years ago. After leaving school he followed various occupations until manhood, when he started to work in a local quartz mine. After being thus employed for a

few years he joined a Government survey party, which he left eventually on volunteering tor active service, leaving New* Zealand with the 22nd Reinforcements. He saw service in France until he was wounded for the first time on October 25, 1917. After some months in various hospitals in England he again returned to France, and continued on active service until receiving, on or about July 26, wounds from which he succumbed. Deceased was a fervent Catholic and an affectionate and faithful sou.—R.I.P.

LIEUTENANT DESMOND O’SULLIVAN. Lieutenant Desmond O’Sullivan, who was reported in the last issue of the Tablet as dangerously wounded (writes our Wellington correspondent), has, I regret to say, since passed away. He was a son of Major O’Sullivan, late Director of Stores and Equipment, Defence Department, and a member of the Dominion Executive of the Catholic Federation. A motion of condolence was passed at the annual meeting of the Dominion Council with Major O’Sullivan and his family at the great loss they had sustained. The deceased was an old boy of the Marist Brothers’ School, and an ex-student of St. Patrick’s College. He was a fine athlete, and most popular. Prior to enlisting he was on the staff of the Public Trust Office.