SOLDIER? KILLED AND WOUNDED

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2504, 3 July 1915, Page 6

SOLDIER? KILLED AND WOUNDED

PERSONAL NOTES ; ; v'/.•• . "" -j•By Association'—Copyx^'ht » Sydney, July 2. : ;:I Privatoi J'l6to,ilf,.: killed at tlio Dardanelles, • ..the "Sydney. -Morning Herald's"> ■: ebrrespondent; ' at Pflris. Hq,exposed tlio De Rougemont ncfcioris.v'' " ; (Private.. G^or?o. Vincont Rixon, killed, was-for -inany years resident m New Zealand; liefqre.'coming^o/Sydupy.:' 'u; London, Jul) 1 ><Lieut.-Pi'eri'o Gordon, It.N., one of i twonty-threo members; of--.'Tlio Times" ■editoriar*. ivho_! Volunteered, ; lias 'beßiv.giveii^iho.Distinguished" .Service' iC'rpss' fbr.''gallant;.conduct ,_witli .t-lie landing' parties tho Syrian coast. He 19 the first journalist decorat-ed.—Pross {Association;_• (''Times 11 -' ; : and ■: Sydney .'"Sun" Services'.) .;' .. ; . Private-Thomas Eicton Bakcwell, Canterbury Battalion, ivlio is amongst.tlio wounded, is tlie son'of Mr. ,H. Bake.■well, of Sydenham, Canterbury, and a •grandson of; the;late Dr. .Bakewell,"for-merly-of'Auckland. He is 22 years of "age, ;aiid was born in "ChristcliUTcli.. Ho '.was: educated.;. at t"no. • Newtbu'; ■■ East School, Auckland/ and at;the. Auckland Grammar Sclibpl. Private Bakewell.took iip': farming at;; air- early., age,' :■ and wa's Wliaiigareij' and tlien in .the Waikatb.'; He. subsequently ivent' to Canterbury; and was for two seasons with; Mr.-.Duncan Rutherford 'on the Moleswortli Station;..; Ho Vipiiied, the .I|6urtli y ;Reinforceiherit!s, /and le'ft : iWel-; Imgton only on April 18 last. , -k 'Advicei wis. " received-.by cable . on, '.Friday .that Major Miller, of the' Royal 'Artillery, .a .sonl'ofothe Hon. (Sir. H. J.' Miller, M.L.C.,' of Cfamaru, was woundfid m action. v 1 .•. ; Private William 1 Norman Ouddie,: m. .hbspital at;Birmiiighamj -is;,twenty-four ■years, .'pf age. 1 - At /the age of sixteen ho; joined .the; Cayershalin -• Rifles, - .'and gained. several'inedals for shooting., He wasvalso^aiifactives ■'member ;'of tie ,Caversliam"Harriers,; and a.; 1 prominent athlete, having won a large number of ;fcrbpliieson' : the,amateur. .^track.;; Ho' won tho 220 yds. championship at Otau.tau'iiii;l9l2, and. runiier-up-'fir, fhe. -with .the'main - body • of the Expeditionary Forces as "a; band.Sr Man,;.having',heen:. : ; : a' member:; of the' Caversham Band for somo; time. . -.

- A' week or two ago Mrs. Morrison, 'late ef 'Geraldine; and! how' .of. Aberdare Si-reet, - Christchureh, ;, received a tele-, grain.- from . the ; -".i'-Defenco 'Department , Btating,; ;that.' her j: son, . Private -. J. Morrison, of ;-tlie -'Auckland'.'"Battalion,', had been rwoimded, arrived; simultaheouslv- with, ' a. letter from another. son iii' Egypt; . Trooper G. Morrison,-.which gave a full account of .the'death] of-Private Morrison. 'Matters were cleared , up.-very satisfactorily on Tuesday, ;when Mrs." : Morrison received a : :cable; niessage from' Private Morrison himself/ stating that; he was progressing favourably;.•• ( ;'. -• ■ - '.Prior to the; commencoment of the business 'of, the : meeting of the C'ant-er-bury.'R,ugby.Unioii:this .ireek,'.the-pren-' ;'d<mtT ;F; T. - 1 Evans): '.briefly;; referred : ;tb'the names of-'Rugby iootballeris • which; had;! appeared: iii -thp ' 'Sinco - -the. pre-, 'viousj'resolutions, of -condolence the, following- had ' been - those : killed iii. ;Vactioh : :—Privates :E. F-rasor ,(Sydenham),' ,G.' P. Lattimoro (Merivale),, and;Av;,'J., Pollard, and W. Kerr "XiUljipil);.;^;uT4e)chairmari said thai all 'lmiv^Q^': ; |!ras4i};',l)W^'''';he'''''iras.'a : pronilnent .player. : ; ; ; Motipns of sympathy .to ■ the" relatives, of. tho.inen were, carried,; all presnnt"standing. . :> t Mystery. .still 'surrounds tlie - fate 15 of JRnvato. Lionel' Parson, of . i.lie : Canterbury'lnfantry;Battalion,;tlie well-known : representative,footballer and •Somev'jveek'sVgpi.he-was "reported, wounded .and.im-issingy;- and then , came ' the Ridings .to;his ,! relatives - that,; he was and-an inmate- of an ; Australian' 'hwfital:iii "Egypt. -'; Further inquiries; niado iby his- family,' however, have elicited iffle information that Private"'Parsoli'',iS"'still;missing. ,' ■ ..-j-; 3-'-f reported as 1 ' on ;April ■ 27, a native ofj Featherston. being a.son :of/.'Mr.""A!*:'E."o'Neale,, a ■ former.-.well-.lniown th'e.i -Wairarapa, arid' j/iiW-'resMmg'injFeildingJj;' ■ I "who 'died; of, .I', - spent.^some,, years w.as' 'of ;31r. F;; Carlyoii,':iie#-.of;West-pbrt. ' ( (;; >. ''E ; "H.' r ; of Feather'stoii, who 'wKs- wounded;,at the Dardanelles,writing from Alexandria Hospital;: states' that ho was shot- tltrbugli.th'e knee, , but,had--nearly : recovered,' and' 'exp&'tte&i'toifeturn : to;; the"'front very shortly. r '- ; y ; ' V "* How''Sefgoan£'Roy Lambert, thb exWellington representative Rugby player, died.is'told ; iti a letter by Sapper Thomas. ,'Sfceqib. i.toCXSergeantLambert's;; father.. ;Sori : in.tho.'tra'nsport,''. ;writes;,.Sapppr;;Thbmas Steele, ."while', itlie force' te the Darda- » sergeant. -My iinformati'oxi : :.as' - to' the; manner of his ideath';is.;';gircn J 'by;-a-;meniber of the, ipartv :of .-which -lie was in command. fight that followed -laiid in'ga-; section of - the- force, got ■iiitb .'a.',very- tight',' corner, .and ' sent_ a. {raessaffep!For-.^d ! s :sake, send us rein-. ;«Mb<^^.'^v;-'ißioy' got ; the : message, '■an'a.'J/ivitho'ut*'"hesitation; '.responded to at the, head of., his men up an incline to;close quarters, with the enemy. ;:. Bullets; wounded him in three places in about' the space of' tiipo that it; takes to write;; last; wound in the head: proved, fatal withina few minutes. 1 My informant, who' .was- within a few; yards of .Roy all the timb. says.'-'that 'as/far-as he could, tell your son was unconscious from the mo'ment'hp w.as hit. They, buried him that -night." .-, . : . .Private Harold-Asher, nephew of Mr. jAV'-'Asher. ■'•Viviiin Sfreeb,' wlio 1 ; is, now an ■iiiihate-of Luna Hospitalj .writes to say. j tliat he was wounded four-times at tho Dafdanelles, and ;is improviiig slowly now, - Private Asher.was a member of the Australian Forces. ' -- ■