PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 64, 8 December 1917, Page 9

PERSONAL ITEMS

The Right 'Hon. W. F. Massey U nrae. Minister) will set out on his ? I t? ur i to "day, and will be absent irora Wellington for about a week; kir. James Allen returned yesterday inornjng from the South Island. He goes to Pahneiston to-day to be present at the opening of the Anzac Club ■ • in tEafc town. &ir Joseph Ward (Minister of Finance) is expected to attend the Southland Show at lnvercargill next week. ■The Hon. G. W. Russell left yesterday for Palmerston, where he will attend the opening- of the Anzao Club .• to-day. The many friends of Mr. Dan RiddiTford, brother of Messrs. V. and E. ;! IHdofford,- who has been an officer in the Grenadier Guards. for .. about two years, will bo glad' to know- he has won the Military Gross. Mr. Riddiford married a daughter of the late Sydney Johnston, of Takapau, and has four young children. ■: Mr. F. Pope, Secretary of Agriculture, will'spend the week-end at the State Experimental Farm at Levin. He will return to town on Monday. Private advice has been received that .. Corporal Percy H. Maysnior, \vho left New 'Zealand with' the Fifteenth N.Z.F.5., is an inmate of No. 2. N.Z. . ' General Hospital, Walton-on-Tbames, having undergone an operation. i'ho. death occurred at the Wellington ftospital on Thursday of Mr. Jonn W. ~ssenhardt, late of Greymouth. The late Mr. :Eissenhardt was a son of \ ' the lata J. .A. ICisseiihardt, architect, . of Greymouth, and brother of Mrs. • O'Meara, of Wellington, wife'of the late John O'Meara, M.P., of Pahiatua. . Ex-Constable Stuwart Favell, reported died of wounds received in nctioii, • was a hfehly esteemed member of the police force. He became a member of "the Wellington Force on August 3, ; 1911, and was'stationed at Mount Cook ' until he was transferred to Blenheim on December 3, 1914. . He resigned on February 5," 1917, in order that lie might.. enlist in' the Expeditionary i Forces. The late Constable Favell i leaves a/widow and one child, who rei. side, at Wadestown. Gunner' Guy Girdlestone, who has ' been awarded the Military Medal, is a son of Mrs. Girdlestone, of Muritai. ■ v He wfts-.born in ;Masterton about 33 -. years .ago; and .after completing his i education at Wellington College entered >- -the service of Messrs. J. H. Bethune and Co., remaining with the firm until .• he went into Mr. W. BeauchampPlatts's office.. : Later "on; he went farming, in the Wairarapa, and -was. so ■ ■■■ -. engaged when.. he joined the Mounted ■ - : ".-Rifles • in'' the Seventh.Reinforcements. ; 'After • serving. in Egypt • with .the ■ Sevenths he transferred to the Tenth Battery Field Artillery, and was sent to France. So far he has not been wounded. His brother Cyril went to Samoa early in the. war. and has now \ been discharged. Another brother is S.M. Hugh- Girdlestone, at present in ■ j camp 1 " in New Zealand Major H. F. Davis received a cable i • message • yesterday. from his youngest T son, Lieutenant A. G. Davis ; stating that he had-been wounded. Lieutenant •i Davis's name was included iii the list ■of promotions and appointments published yesterday, he having been trans- . i ferred from the Canterbury Infantry : Regiment to the Machine-Gun Corps, 'on promotion in.the field.. Lieutenant ■ \Davis was educated at the Clyde Quay, : aid Island Bay Schools and Wellington College. He was a member of the . Public-School Cadets, reaching the • position of lieutenant; Afterwards. be -cjoined the Wellington College Rifle ■Caaets as corporal, and later trans--ferret} to the Wellington-Manawatu | Mounted Rifles. He left with the ■ ■ \ fourteenth Reinforcements as sergeant, - hut lost his stripes and went into,the '. - field as V private. From; the mounteds lie volunteered for the infantry when ■ ;••. • .njgre infantry.,were required. ' •Jlr. Maclean, Christ.v- church, ■ has 'been- /advised that his ""brother, Lieutenant J. C.-Maclean, has - been-awarded the Military Cross. Lieutenant Maclean has_ had a severe illness j and has been in hospital in land; and France. Ho was wounded at Gallipoli and twice in. France, and • 'is now back at the front again. _ Lieu- ' tenant Maclean also saw service in Hhe Boer War, and was wounded at . Ottoshoop. Lieutenant-Colonel C. E. RusselRendle, .N.Z.M.C., lata of Ashburton, who for the past four months has been principal medical officer at Samoa, has returned ,to New Zealand invalided, and is in an Auckland hospital. He . was severely injured as the result of a fall from,his horse, but is now,making good progress towards recovery. Lieutenant-Colonel Russel-Rendle has received word of {he death in action on October 10 of his son, Second Lieutenant Anthony Dsrley Russel-Rendle, after thirty-three months' service in , Gallipoli, Egypt, and France. Ho ■ loft New Zealand as a corporal in the Canterbury. Infantry _ Battalion. He received his commission for gallantry on the field of 1 aotion, and was ap- •< ' : pointed to his father's old regiment in the Imperial Army. '