RETURNING SOLDIERS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2719, 14 March 1916, Page 7

RETURNING SOLDIERS

TROOPSHIP AT PORT CHALMERS TO-DAY. , , . By Telegraph—Press Association. ' Dunedin, March 13. A troopship with about 150 wounded and invalided soldiers is expected at Port Chalmers to-morrow,evening. The men are to be tendered a civic reception on Wednesday, and those for Canterbury and the North Island, will leave by special train about noon, while southern men will leave by the second express. . The following supplementary roll of details returning to New Zealand by the Tahiti has been issued: —

Otftgo Battalion. —John Thomas Beaman (No. 8/1191). Next-of-kin, Mrs. Annie Mooro, Greymouth. Wellington Mounted Rifles. —Gilmour T, M'Connell (No. 11/549).' Next-of-kin, Mr. F. B. M'Connell, Haw-era. Army Nursing Corps.—Nurse Jean Grant Skinner Ingram (No. 22/24). Next-of-kin, Mr. Join Ingram, Richmond, Nelson. In the list of officers and men returning to New Zealand by the Araiva due at- Wellington. next Wednesday, tho name of Lieutenant Sydney Percival Abbott, No. 9/1761 (next-of-kin, Mrs. R. P. Abbott, Commercial Hotel, Wanganui), appeared. An official correction has come'to hand stating that the name should have read: Lieut. Gaviu Melville Abbott. No. 13/280 (next-of-kin, Mr. Thomas Aobott, AYaioka, Opotiki).