ROLL OF HONOUR.

Press, Volume LV, Issue 16431, 27 January 1919, Page 8

ROLL OF HONOUR.

SATURDAY'S LIST. A casucltv lis' i=s*ied at noon on Saturday reported : — CANTERBURY DISTRICT. DIED WHILST EX ROUTE TO N.Z. Taveirdale, E. J., H.B. (C. Tavendale, Kaiapoi, i.). January 7th. OVERSEA FORCES. IMPERIAL FORCES. Previously reported prisoner of war, now reported — McCalman, J., Cpl. IT. McCalman, Lower Riccarton) AUSTRALIAN FORCES. admitted hospital; dangerously ill: — Kenworthy. E. (Mrs L. Konworthy, St. Albans, m.) HOSPITAL REPORT. CANTERBURY MILITARY DISTRICT. Dangerously ill—Locke, J. Millerton. Not reportt'.l aa severe eases:—Johnston, A. G. Seddonvillle; McNeil! le, W. R., Lyttelton'; New, A. V., Ashburton; O'Brien, W. E., Timaru. AUSTRALIAN CASUALTIES. (Australian and .Z. Cttblo Association.) MELBOURNE, January 25. The war casualties to dato total 305,806, including:— \ Killed •• •• 58,037 Wounded .. •• •• 166,230 Sick .. - •• 82,102 After a lapse of eleven months news has been received by Mrs A. Mo.ig* Levy, of "Wellington, that her only son,' Roger, was drowned through the sinking of an American transport near the Azores, during the first week of February, 1918. The information was conveyed in a letter received from Mr Bell, secretary to the • British Sea*men's Union, New \ork. All hands on the vessel were lost. The late Mr Moag-Levy. was formerly an officer in the service of - the Union Steam Ship Company, and was very popular with all who knew him. News has been received that Captain Hill Wilson White, 11.A.M.C., was killed in France on April 12th last. He was sent in medical charge" of a battalion to meet a terrific onslaught of the Germans, in the course of which, most of the men engaged were killed or wounded. He was reported "missing," and the Army Council now presume that he was killed. The Colonel ] wrote in the highest terms.df"his gal-I lantry in attending to the wounded in the midst of heavy shell fire. He was i born in Kaiapoi in June, 1885,, when his father, who is now Dean of Christ Church, Dublin, was incumbent of tTiat parish. His younger brother, Gerald I. iS. White, 2nd Lieutenant, Royal Irish Regiment, was killed at the Somme in July, 1916; and an elder brother, Henry Vera White, who was also born in Kaiapoi, is captain in the Army Service Corps, and at present with our victorious troops in the Rhine Provinces.