PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 35, 5 November 1918, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

Private C. M. Perry, son of Mr. W. Perry, of Masterton, and member of the First Wellington Military Service Board, is seriously ill with influenza at Walton-on-T'hamcs. Private Perry was wounded at Gallipoli and again in France, and for some considerable time has been conducting,a wool-sorting class in Englnnd for disabled men. A Presß Association message states that Dr. Henry Mark Levinge was found dead in his garden at Ruawai on Sunday morning. Deceased was an old naval surgeon, and was noted for his scientific attainments. '

' Mr. F. Pierard, of Kelburn, has been advised that his son, Trooper 11. A- W. Pierard, who was admitted to the hospital in Helouan, Palestine, on October 19 suffering from malaria, is. now recovering. Trooper Pierard left with the Eighteenth Mounted Reinforcements, and has been all through the Palestine campaign, serving with the Machine-gun Squadron. The death from pneumonia occurred on 'October 19 of Captain "Wyville" Rutherfurd M.C., of the Ist Canterbury Infantry Regiment. This young soldier had a brilliant and promising career before him. Volunteering, with the Main Expeditionary Force, he first saw service in Egypt, and was with the landing party 'on Gallipoli, being granted his commission in the field for bravery. He was wounded, and invalided to England, later going to France, • where he saw much fighHng, and as a lieutenant there won the Military Cross/and was gazetted captain. When the British Government called for volunteers for a specially hazardous expedition he again came forward, and was sent .under sealed orders to- Persia, from which place Hie sad news arrived that he had paid the supreme sacrifice. As a lad he won a scholarship with wliioh he first entered Wellington College, whero he,beca"me a prominent athlete. Later he , was a student at'both-. Victoria College and Otago University, where he gained his diploma as a- mining, engineer, finishing his course in the West Coast gold and coal mines. He left for, the front with tho West Coast contingent, which joined •up with the* Canterbury. Infantry. The deceased soldier was only twenty-seven years of age, and single, and was the youngest: son of the late John Ruthert'urd, of Wairere, Masterton. Two other brothers volunteered in tlw early days of the war, one of whoih gave his life at .Messines • Inst- year, and Lieutenant A. Rutherfurd is still serving with the Royal Engineers. _ , ~ l '.

Sergeant Reginald John Hancock, who was killed iii action on September 22-, was the third of the-late John Hancock, of Bombay, who served five years in the Maori War. Sergeant Hancock, who was 33 years of age, enlisted in November, ,\ili, and left with the Third Reinforcements. He served with the artillery on Gallipoli. and in France. During the whole time ho was not a day absent from his battery. One of his brothers, who enlisted.in England,-and sailed with the "Contemptibles," was killed in March, 1915. Another brother, wio left,with 'tho Main Body, is still serving.: Sergeant Hancock leaves a wife and three young children.

News has.been received in Wellington from London of the death of Mr. A. E. Berrill, a director of Messrs. Gordon and Qotch, Limited, the well-known publish-, ing house.

Mr. T. G. Price, of Auckland, is visiting .Wellington in connection with the' town-planning conference, which ;is■ to open to-morrow. '

A Press Association message from Auckland announced the death of the Eev. C. 11. Garland, principal of the Methodist Training College. The late Mr. Garland entered the ministry of the Methodist Church in ISSI. He was- elected president of the Wesleyan Church in 1901, at the conference held in Wellington. He was one- of the most outstanding figures in the Methodist Church of New Zealand, and had achieved valuable results as head of the Training College at Auckland.

Lieutenant Eric Reeves, M.C., of' Wellington, who went away, for the second time, with the Fortieth Reinforcements,was, according to a cablegram received yesterday, admitted to hospital in France on October 27, suffering from the effects of gas. Lioutenant Reeves was second in command of the troopship on which occurred the epidemic that proved so disastrous to the Fortieths. It was commanded bv Lieutenant-Colonel R. G. Allen, who'has recently been wounded in Franoo.

Trooper Louis Salek, son of Mr.' I. Salek, of Wellington, a member of the Australian Medical Corps, is visiting Wellington on furlough.'

Advice bus been received that 25/720 John Samuel Brown, a returned discharged soldier, died at tho Auckland Hospital on October 29- Deceased was a single man, 25 years of age, and his next-of-kin was his father, Mr. John Brown, 108 Grey Street, Auckland. Also that 24/2192 Frederick Daniel Fitzpatrick, n returned discharged soldier, died at the Auckland Hospital on October 30. Deceased was a single man, 23 years of and his next-of-kin was his sister, Miss M. Fitzpatrick, Whangarei Hospital.

One of the victims when the Leinster was torpedoed on October 10 was Second Lieutenant H. T. Doyle, son of Mrs. M. Doyle, of Mt. Eden. Deceased had been to Ireland on furlough, and was returning to Fiance by tho Leinster. He left New Zealand with the Ninth Beiuforcer nients, and was away at the. front thrco years. After passing in 6afety through several big attacks, including that of Passchendaele Ridge, ho died while on furlough. Deceased was unmarried and 28 years of age.

Mrs. H. Jackson, of Epsom, has received news of the death in action, on October 8, in France, of her son, Second Lieutenant Thomas Gilbert Jackson, who left New Zealand the Main Body over four years as a gunner in the Now Zealand Artillery. Lieutenant Jackson went through the Gallipoli campaign, being ono of tho men with the last gun withdrawn from the Peninsula, under Major Clivo M'Gilp. Erom there he went to the Western front, and had escaped unhurt during the whole four years' activo service. He had only received bis commission, and been back in France about three weeks, when ho was killed.' lieutenant Jackson was 27 years of age, and had married an Australia lady in London.