GOOD RECORD OF SERVICE.

Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16159, 13 March 1918, Page 5

GOOD RECORD OF SERVICE.

COLONEL LOGAN AND THREE SONS. The administrator of Safnoa, Colonel R. Logan, C.8., A.DC., who is on short leave in Auckland, is a member of a fighting family. He left New Zealand on August 14th, 1914, in command of the Advanced Guard of tho New Zealand Expeditionary Force, and took possession of Samoa on August 30th. His identification d.sc bears the inscription. -No. 1, -NOW £eaianit Expeditionary i'orcc. Colonel Logan's eldest son, who was an officer of the Auckland Mounted Rides, left New Zealand with the Main Body, and was killed in action on His I second son, who was one of the first ' cadets at Duntroon Military College, also left with tho Main Body. Rio was wounded on Gallipoli, mentioned in despatches, served in franco, was wounded there, and, after 14 months in hospital, returned to France, and is xiow serving on a brigade siaif I there. Colonel Logan's youngest son enlisted on his 19th birthday, and left New Zealand as a corporal in the 34th reinforcements. _ Mrs Logan, in addition to being chatelaino oi' Government House, Samoa, acts as French interpreter for tho occupying force. The whole family is thus engaged in war work. Tho Logan family has been connected with the colonies for 100 years. Captain Patrick Logan was killed m action, while serving with the Middlesex Regimont, in New South Wales, in the beginning of the 19th century. His son, Major-General R. R Logan, C.8., commanded, as. heiitenant-colonel the Middlesex Regim|pt-—the s<th— in the New Zealand War. and was created C.B. for his services, and his nephew has now been ereateu C.B. for seivices with the Now Zealand Forces in Kajuoa.