RETURNED TROOPERS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2410, 16 March 1915, Page 6

RETURNED TROOPERS

— —•- — ; — , TWELVE ARE PRISONERS. | (By Teleerasii.—Pi<e« Assocl«,tioa.> J Dunedln, March 15. ' 'A returned troopship from Suez, with Captain Coady in charge and Dr. J Walters as medical officer, brought twenty-one patients suffering from lung troubles, and twelve prisoners, ' ten from . Albany, Where they missed j their passage, and two from Egypt for misconduct, On reaching Duncain tho men were taken with an armed guard to the Defence Office, where they will , probably be court-martialled. Both officers are in the pink of condition, and speak highly of the climate ] in ' Egypt, and the conduct of the New Zealanders. Both return with the next reinforcement's.' . Later.' The ten prisoners go on to Wellington to-morrow to be court-martialled. The names of those invalided home are as follow:— C. Williams (South; Canterbury Mounted Rities). L. R. Mortimore (10th Mounted I'iilos). A. E. Bambridge (12th Mounted Kiilcs). J. Phelan (12th Mounted Rifles).' L. J. Hansen (6th Mounted Rifles). A. Nicholas (Signal Troop). ' C. W: Payne (16th Waikato Regiment). T. H. Wakefield (12th' Auckland Regiment).. , G. H. Harlow (12th Nelson, Regiment). G. B. Collyns (13th Infantry Regiment). .. 1 G. E. Jeffery (13 th Infantry Regiment). P. L. Miller (12th Infantry Regiment). G. Monaghan . (12th Infantry Regiment). ■ A. Prestney (13th Infantry Regiment). ( " D. Canning (4th Otago Regiment). W. D. Man lev (3t-h Otago Regiment). W. K. Ridgway (10th North Otago Regiment); ■ N. Jackson (17th Infantry Regiment). A. 'J. Davis (Vet. Group). The invalided men were sent to the hospital. . "