RTURNING HOME.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXVI, Issue 3560, 21 September 1916, Page 3

RTURNING HOME.

WILLOCHRA'S COMPANY

LIST OF SOLDIERS ARRIVING NEXT WEEK.

(Per Press Association*

WELLINGTON, September 20

Following is the nominal roll of details returning to New Zealand in the Willochra, which will arrive about Wednesday next:— Returning for Commissions. Following are returning for coinmis--1 sions :— , Canterbury Mounted Rifles—Sergeant Stanley Berryman. Otago Mounted Rifles—Sergeant Ernest Stocker. New Zealand Field Artillery*—Sergeant Augustine-Georgetti. New Zealand Field Engineers— Lance-corporal John Leonard Boiler I).'. Canterbury Battalion—Sergeaht-'Ma-jor Herbert Ffancis Dyer, SergeantMajor Norman Robert-Harper. Otago Battalion — Sergeant-Major John Munro Gillies. Divisional Headquarters — Trooper Watson Lewis Crawford. ■ Invalids. The following are invalided;— Headquarters—Major Charjes ,JEric Andrews.

New Zealand Rifle Brigade—Rifleman Joshua Lines, labourer. Temporary attached to E.F. Forces— Chaplain C. Fraer.

New Zealand Field Artillery—Major Gilbert James Beattio, manufacturer's agent, Corporal Norman Clark, engineer ; Acting-Corporal Samuel Adnett; Gunner Lewis Farrer Dale, engineer; Driver Albeit Hall, ironmonger; Gunner Alfred Emilms Little, tent and sailmaker; Gunner Edmund Markley, fellmonger ; Gunner Phillip Austin Marshall, farmer.

New Zealand Field Engineers—Sapper James Hamilton Blackmoro, miner ; Sapper Charles Cameron, labourer; Sapper Jack Fox. tailor; Sapper James Jones Mansell, miner; Sapper Ernest Ramsey, carpenter; Sapper John Digby Smith, engineer; Sapper Arthur Creighton Stcele, labourer.

New Zealand Rifle Brigade—Major John Sarsfield Murphy, mercer; Quar-termaster-Sergeant James Henry Langlv. builder; Rifleman Alfred James Clark, jockey; Rifleman Francis Joseph Mitchell, plasterer; Rifleman John O'Donoghue, farmer; Rifleman Alfred Page, boot finisher; Rifleman Frederick George Reed, telegraphist; Rifleman Harold Wilson, blacksmith. Army Service Corps—Driver Alfred George Pillinger, motor lorry driver.

New Zealand Veterinary Corps—Farrier William Alfred. Davidson, blacksmith.

' Now Zealand- Medical Corps—Major Carrick Hey Robertson, Captain Kenneth Edwin Tapper, medical practitioner ; Sergeant Herbert Foster, electrician ; Acting-Corporal Ely William Arnold, male nurse; Private Frank Reid Bishop, chemist; Private Albert Charles Holt Collins, chemist; Private Russell Robert Laidlaw, student; Private Harry Eveleigh Ridley, steward. Maori Contingent— Sergeant-Major Peter Thomas Moko, ■ commission agent; Sergeant-Major John William Massey Singleton, contractor; Sergeant Kaki Harawira, linesman; Private, David Coatcs, labourer; Private Sullivan July Kanatau, shearer; Private Ta-lanta. settler; Private Tuoro Kawhenti, labourer.

New Zealand Army Pay Corps—StaffSergeant Edward Williams Dooley, accountant.

New Zealand Army Nursing Service —Nurse Isabell Gordon Boyd, Nurse Isabel Daisy Lever. Nurse Edith Mary Lewis, Nurse E. T. Edwards, Nurse E. McMurtrie.

Chaplain Patrick Dorp. The. following aro also returning:— Officers' wives—Mrs Andrews and Mrs Hutton.

Soldiers' wives—Mrs Middlcton, Mrs Smith, Mrs Urouhart.

Passenger—Mr Alexander. Canterbury Details. The details of the Canterbury Mounted iliiies returning are:— Lieutenant-Colonel George Frederick Hutton. Major Daniel Willis Talbot, fruit-

grower. Lieutenant George Noel Taylor, school teacher. Corporal Arthur Morris, farmer. Trooper Frank William Anderson, carpenter. Trooper Boss John Clunies, farmer. Trooper Adrian Walker Riggs, boxmaker.,

Canterbury Battalion:— Captain William Hartshorne, miner. Lieutenant Percy Arthur S. Stephens, life insurance agent. Sergeant James Francis Gibson, hairdresser.

Corporal Archibald Gower Burns clerk.

■Lance-Corporal William Robert Allan Dunn, labourer.- v Lance-Corporal William George Holdaway, clerk. Lance-Corporal William Bettjeman, engine driver. Private Richard Collins, law student. Private Frederick Frascr Robert Maurice Davies, seaman: Private Thomas Hall, miner. Private Cuthbert Hill, clerk. Private Charlie Keogan, sawmill

hand. Private Cyril j\Torley Phillips. Private William: Porter^ labourer. Private Robert Henry Smith, carpenter. Private Alexander' 'Bain Stewart, ironmonger. :.;■■' Private James Moir '•'• Taylor, engraver. : a . .Private- James Wallace, farmer,-