PERSONAL

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXVI, Issue 3565, 27 September 1916, Page 4

PERSONAL

Mr T. Alexander, of Ashburton, who met. with ;m injury to his head through. falling from a vehicle in East Street on September 14, was admitted to the hospi La I yesterday.

Mr JJ. C. Percy, of Ashburton, has received advice, that his oldest son, Trooper Leonard M. Percy, who left with the machine-gun section oi' tile Eighth iteiiil'orcompnts, has been wounded.

Mr 11. AI. .Jones, of Ashburton, received si cable mossago last evening stating that his third son. Captain M. H. 11. Jones, who left with the Fourth Battalion of Lord Liverpool's Rifle Brigade, has been woundod.

Mrs M. Evans, Grey Street, Ashburton, received advice yesterday evening that her son, Corporal John E. Evans, hud boon wounded in the loft forearm on September LG, and had been admitted to :i. military hospital. Mr John Templeton, Ashburton. lias been advised that his son, Ralph J. R. Templeton, who left with the Second Hi lie Brigade, was wounded in the chest on September 16, and had embarked for Kngland.

Mr John Cairns, of AYakanui, received a, private cable to-day from has son. Private Samuel Cairns, who lejt 'with the 'Twelfth Reinforcements!, Stating that ho had been wounded in the. shoulder, and that he was progressing sa tibi'aetorily.

Advice has been received tliat Rifleman David James Irving, .eldest son of Mr D. J. and Mrs Irving, of Allenton, had died of wounds on September 12. liitleiuau. Irving, who left with the Ninth Reinforcements, was 19 years of ago. Jfis father is, at present in cam]), and will leave with the Nineteenth Reinforcements.