PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 30, 30 October 1917, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

Monsignor M'Kenua, of Masterton, went into a private hospital yesterday to be operated upon fot a serious internal complaint. The Rev. Tatter Travers will bo in charge of the parish during Monsignor M'lCenna's illness.

Mrs. Mathew Holmes, of Wellington, has been advised that her husband, Lieutenant-Colonel Holmes, N.X.M.0., who has been ill at Walton-on-Thames for the past threo weeks, is now in the Officers' Convalescent Home at Brighton.

Lieutenant A. .T. F. Berry, formerly stipendiary lay-reader in St. Matthew's Church at Masterton, has been killed in action.

A Press Association telegram from Auckland 'states that Father Michael Tormey, in charge of the Ellerslie parish church, died in the street, the cause being sudden -heart seizure while walking rapidly up a hill.

In a supplement to the London Gazette, dated August IG, the following particulars are given in a list of awards to officers, non-commissioned officers, and men for gallantry and devotion to duty in the field, in regard to the acts which earned the Military Cross for two wellknown InvercargillitesCaptain James Garfield Crawford, Medical Corps.—He repeatedly took his bearers through heavy barrage, 'bringing back many wounded who were lying exposed to the enemy's fire. Hfs coolness and fearlessness under heavy fire was a striking example to his men, and his energy was the direct cause of many lives being saved." "Captain Ernest 'Prank fielby, Infantry.—During an attack he showed the_ greatest personal courage in reorganising the whole of the line during moment, supervising the work himself and ensuring the successful completion of the line against counter-attack. During the whole of this time the position was being heavily shelled."

Lance-Corporal O. M. Cowie, who went to the front with tho Twelfth Beinforcementa (Wellington Eflgimcnt), has been awarded the Military Medal. .He is the only son of Mr. T. S. M. Cowie, of Earori, late of the Civil Service.

Mr. S. Dawson, of Mauriceville, has received word that his son, Private J. DaW6on, was wounded on October 5. This is the second time Private Dawson lias been wounded, the previous occasion being in the Messines battle. Amongst the recently returned soldiers is 2nd Lieutenant Leslie Hill, a son or Mr. Samuel Hill; of the Internal Affairs Department, Auckland, late of Wellington. Second Lieutenant L. Hill left New Zealand as a private. He received one stripe before arriving at Gfilllpoli, whero he was wounded in the fight at Cape Helles. He was invalided to Egypt and Taised to the rank of cer, geant. When tho 2nd. Brigade was form, ed he was attached and sent to Jxance, where he took part in a number of battles. - i , Tho death occurred last week at nie residence, • 47 Vivian Street, of Air. Robert Quee, who arrived with ins parents in Dunedin 1 from Australia about tho year 1861. During his residento ther6 he was on board thy Pride of the Tarra trhen sho was sunk .by collision on her way from Port Chalmers to Dunedin. He arrived in Wellington in 1863, and resided here until his death. Corporal Ronald K. Lyon has written announcing his safe arrival in England. The day after arrival lie, with others, washout to Penninga Camp, near .aidworth, a new temporary camp for tne N.Z.E.B. The C.O. is Major Beere, of Wellington. . Mr. and Mrs. A. Bissett. late of Fielding-, and now of Wanganui, received from the Defence Department last Thursday the bugle which was being used by their son, George P. Bissett, when he was killed on Orallipoli two and a half-years ago. The instrument forms a sad but lntereati'n" memento; as there is engraved upon it by the bugler lad the name of each place at which he camped. It also beara evidence of battle m having iio less than threo bullet, holes lnrough_lt. Bugler Bissett was an honoured member of the Fraser Clan of Eangibkei, he bein„ the first of them to fall in action, and many of its members will feel proud of the bugle with which he soumded tne last reveille. . The Eev. E. PalgTave Davy, of Auckland, superintendent of the Children's Mission, is visiting welling ton for the purpose of conducting united young-life campaigns.