SOLDIER SCHOLARSHIPS
AWARDED TO NEW ZEALANDERS. London, March 3. ' Thirteen overseas- sailor and;'.soldierscholarships hafe been donated by the Rhodes Trustees and the Kitchener National Memorial Fund, tenable at various universities. They include one to 2nd Lieutenant ChaHes Frederick Forsdick, of the New Zealand Machine Gun Corps, tenable at the Imperial College; and one to Captain Noel Storrier Johnson, of the New Zealand Rifle Brigade, tenable at Oxford.—Reuter. [Lieutenant Forsdick is an Auckland officer, son ..of ,Mr.. W. H. Forsdick, Victoria. Avenue, Mount Eden.] Captain Johnson is a son of Mr. and Mrs. Clarke Johnson, of Karori Road, Wellington. Captain Johnson, w,ho_is 23 years of age, left New Zealand with the 4th Battalion New Zealand Rifle Brigade in February, 1916. He went through the Somme battle, and was badly wounded at the beginning of 1917. Captain Johnson has lost his left foot, but he has made a gradual but good recovery from his injuries, and is now taking his university course at Oxford.
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 142, 5 March 1918, Page 5
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162SOLDIER SCHOLARSHIPS Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 142, 5 March 1918, Page 5
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