AUSTRALIAN CASUALTIES

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2457, 10 May 1915, Page 6

AUSTRALIAN CASUALTIES

TOTAL OF 498 TO DATS Sydney, May B.' The Australian casualties in_ the Dardanelles up to tho present notified total 438,

Private advices 6tate that Lieut. G. Staen; reported to have been killed in action, was only slightly wounded. (Rec. Slay 9, 4.30 p.m.) Sydney, May 9. Dardanelles casualty list: — Died of wounds: Lieutenants Curwen and Walker, Privates Meek, Williams, Gibson, Dunlop, Wright and Healey. Wounded: Captains J. C. Stewart and D. W. Dalk, Lieutenants May, Woodforde, Bennett, Macpherson, and Room. Two hundred and eleven men are reported wounded. ' WOUNDED NEW ZEALANDERS. Cabled advice lias been received by the Defence Department from the Commonwealth Military Authorities that the following have been wounded in action in the Dardanelles— Private C. J. Hacche, 4th Australian Infantry. Next-of-kin, B. B. Hacche, Post Office, Gisborne. Private B. Sutton. 12th Australian Infantry. Next-of-kin, Mrs. Sutton, Henderson Street, Bluff. Private J. A. P. Edwards, 7th Australian Infantry. Next-of-kin, Mrs. Edwin Edwards, Paeroa. Private R. C. Wright, 3rd Australian Infantry. Next-of-kin, Henry Wright, Mem Street, Wellington. LIST OP THE KILLED STATEMENT BY HIS EXCELLENCY. (By Telegraph,—Press Association.! Auokland, May 9. His Excellency the Governor has received the following cablegram from the Secretary of State for the Colonies:— "With reference to your message of May 2, I am informed trat lists of the wounded who have arrived in Egypt are. dispatched daily when checked. No losses of those killed in action, excepting officers, had reached Egypt on May 5. Lists of wounded are not cabled from the front owing to difficulties, but arc made on the arrival of ships." The Governor referred t-j this matter when speaking at the Orphans' Club last night. "I am afraid it will be some time before we receive the list of those New Zealanders who have been killed at the Dardanelles." He remarked:— "The names of Hie wounded have come from the base hospital in Egypt, but the more serious items will not come through for some days yet."