ROLL OF HONOUR.

Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16168, 23 March 1918, Page 10

ROLL OF HONOUR.

YESTERDAY'S ! LIST. (TRESS ASSOCIATION* TFXKG^AM.) •WELLINGTON. Mr.rch 22. The following casualty list was issued .o-day :— MAORI CONTINGENT. DIED OF SICKNESS. Died of sickness iu New Zealand (March Hstb.) . l'angacre. K. (Mrs Moe Ratapu, Hikiwai, Tokomaru Bay) THE FALLEN A'ND WOUNDED. PERSONAL xsOTES.

P Ser-eant Alexander 0. Gray, who ' ' lied in tho Chnstchurch Hospital jc*iV terdav morning, was, prior to _ going to i : : the front, master in charge of tho ct k . nndarv department ol the Akaroa D - trirt High School. The news of h>» j - death was revived in Akaroa oxV pressions of deepest regret, lho: do ft eased arrived in Lyttelton by Y' ■ port ou Tuesday. He met at the :j; i Christclnirch railway station J wife, and immediately taken to theu ' home at L-onsdalo street, Now Ln jiton Ji ilt was apparent that the Jp; soldier was in an exceeding,y bad of health, and mcd.cal aid was at onco if i procured. The doctor ordered Sergeant (Jrav s removal to the Christchurch 'Hospital, where he was attended jy M Sr Duncan, an old College churn, and r :!*j. everything that medical skill |i "Cut was done. Pneumonia and cat # trouble, however, were M advanced stage, and death rtsulteu early yesterday morning , feol , > Gray left for tnc front lasV-April, an /'! ' at Paschehdaelo Hidgc on the e*. . k\ tout in Octobcr Jic was seriously t{ wonuded, and also contracted J„. f ee t. He remained in a shell-hole \ut ft another wounded man for u PJ ards ° threo days before being rescued. Tho U rescuing party occupied six hours l!il owinc to the terrible nature of the country, in. conveying tho patient, to> a I place of at least temporary > I] V where his wounds were attended to. ."I ;On tho voyage back to Now M ; complications set m and J'^ 7 S ™s PI- '' ally became worse. I'or over 17 j_- • U •<! the deceased was a teacher in various If schools, and was "PP " « e{ i ; n 1902, to take charge of the see I] > ontlarv department of tho Akaroa Dis- & trict High School. For nearly lo years f he filled that position with conspicuous ) ability and succcss. He ; if.A., B.Se., at Canterbury College and was n man of exceptional scholastic atItainments; also a gifted teacher, and an' adept in all athletic sports. Seigeant Gray, who had won an honourod reputation among C;anterbury teaclhev, was, a vear before leaving for the iiont, married to Miss Olive daughter of Mr E. E. La Lievre, of Akaroa, and leaves her and an infant son to . mourn tffcir loss. As secretary ot the * Akaroa TJjasonic Lodgo and a member ijf evorv club in the town. Sergeant ; Gray had taken an energetic and prominent <part in all social and, outdoor •activities, and his loss to tho district is indeed great. Tho deceased was, in i'-i. his younger days, an enthusiastic Jvugoy L:. footballer, and was one of the pioneer W- members of the Canterbury College; Club, being one of W© mainstays m tho I forward line when \he University club ! y was one of the leaduig clubs in Christ- • f hurch. He was alsi? a prominent figure f--' in rowing and tennis circles. Though '■' ■ over the age limit, ho was particularly < keen to do his little.for his country, and did.not rest until he obtained leavo ,of absence from the Akaroa District ? High School Board to proceed to the '' front. The fnneral, si military one, will ? « leave the King EdwardTiarracks for the ■ ' Addington Cemetery at 2.30 p.m. tomorrow. Returned soldiers aro invited 4' to attend.

£ Private George Cutten, who died at y' after he had undergone an.opera- * tion for appendicitis, -was born in WeljV < lifigton forty-one years ago, and was nnP! ' ■married. •• He "was educated at Mount I'-'iV Cook School, and before entering the „; 'Wellington Harbour Board's service he •T Km* si*, sea. He -went through the i a- member of Kitchener's Volunteerine for service t war, he'left New Zealand of the Bth Reinforcements. Paddy, Edgeware road, St. received advice , that her F. H. M. (Bert) Paddy, n France . and admitted to February 27th. Private educated at tho Richmond | hristchurch Schools, and, iting with the 27th Special-acting-fireman on the New [ways, at Christchurch. is received yesterday that ral Sam Mitchell, youngest r. and the late Mr Andrew > Claridge road, Papanui, 1 to the New Zealand Gene- , Brockenhurst, on March ously ill. with bronchitis, ral Mitchell has been serv;e for the last .fivo months, with the 26th ReinforceNeale, of Springston, has [ that his son, Corporal T. io was severely wounded on has now transferred to rch Convalescent Depot. Miln. Te Repo, Halswell, on Wednesday that his rate Rutherford. Miln, had ously- wounded in France, nshot wounds in his head Private Miln, who was horn and .educated at the Boys , was engaged in farming it to the Argentine m the 14. When war broke out, he Homfe and enlisted an the 2nd Dralefecoon wards. He has seen a great deal gfeif Ase*yi§&. /arid was .wounded m boui lees lastMrear. Another of the family, fc.vJiiln, left New Zealand rethe Sotti Reinforcements. f*ro«tsen. of Rolleston, has following letter from 2nd

Lielit'enant Ivor S. Prichard, concerning herson, Private 11. J. Crossen, who was killed in action in Franco: j'l foe' T niust write you to say how oeep is our sympathy for you all in the loss or your son", who was killed in the attaci. ou Polderhoek Chateau, east of ipres, on December 3rd. I was not m the attack myself, it being my turn to ■ miss one, so cannot toil you the_ exact Miot whore he was buried, hut it w "® s near the Chateau on the uattlefie.ci. there being no chance to carry the waj out. He was struck by a shell, deat.n being instantaneous. All the i n J* n 111 the platoon and myself wish to, tell you i how deep is our sorrow at the loss o. 1 one who. by his cheery bearing and willingness, was an example to all. >* c «:1I mourn the loss of so fine a comrade/'