THE FALLEN AND WOUNDED.

Press, Volume LIII, Issue 15874, 13 April 1917, Page 7

THE FALLEN AND WOUNDED.

PERSONAL NOTES,

Amongst the officers who recently returned to New Zealand w ' as Captain Ernest Harston, of Napier. He left originally with the First Expeditionary Forcc, and was in tho landing at Gallipoli. He took part in all the subsequent operations, and was mentioned in despatches. He afterwards served in France, and was invalided to England for some time, hut returned to the front on the eve of the Somme battle, and took part in tho operations there. His health since then has been inaifforent, and necessitated his return to Now Zealand.

Private advice was received in Invercargill on Wednesday by tho relatives of tho late Corporal Chas. H. J. Clare that he had died of wounds received in j France on March 30th. _ The late corj poral, who was 48.years' of ago at tho timo of liia death, left with the Four- | teenth Reinforcements, and in JanuI aiy, 1916. was given a send-off by the heacls of the various municipal departments. with one of which ho was connected. Corporal Clare was the second ton of tho late Captain Clare, and was horn iu jnvercaiigiil and educated at the South School and afterwards nt the Kiverton School. Ho was lor about nineteen years harbourmaster at Invercnrgill, a position his father had occupied for some twenty years beforo. Corporal Clare, possessed the aquatic spirit to an unusual extent, and took a ksen .interest in everything pertainlnic to tho sport. For some years ho acted as an official at regattas held at Bluff. ,Ho always took a warm interest in volunteering, and for seven venrs was a lieutenant in tho Southland Mounted Ililles. He was also a lieutenant in the National Reserve. He leaves a widow and two sons.

Private Ernest Windsor Newton (killed) was the son of Mr and Mrs Robert Newton, of 32 Yarrow street, Invercargill, and was 24 years of age. For a time Private Newton was employed in a racing stablo and subsequently with the f.nvercargill Corporation. Ho left New Zealand with the Main Body. Ho servod through the Gallipoli campaign, returned to Egypt with tho forces, and in due course went to France. Until recently he had been engaged chiefly in transport work, but on transferring to the Ist Otago Regiment became associated with the difficult and dangerous work of bombing.