PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 37, 7 November 1918, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

Lieutenant Wynne Raymond, of the Indian Cavalry, formerly of Southland. New Zealand, has been killed m action. —Press Assn. :

Lieutenant B. C. Kirk, who was recently awarded tho Military Cross, is the only eon of Mr. T. W. Kirk, of the Department of Agriculture, and is well known in Wellington and Patea, where he held positions on the staff, of Levin and Co. He wont into the firing-line in April last, and was wounded a month later. In July he was again wounded, vet continued to lead his company during iho same day, as the only surviving officer. It was, for his gallantry on this occasion that Lieutenant lurk won his M.C.

Bifleman Edwin Kenneth King, ii returned discharged soldier, died at Auckland on Monday from influenza. Deceased was a married man, 29 years ot ago and tits next-of-kin wns his wife, Mrs. E. K. King, Inglewood.

Mr. W. F. Johnson, of the General Assembly Library staff, received yesterday morning news that his son, Gunner I'. W. Johnson, had been awarded the Military Medal "for gallantry on the field of action." Gunner Johnson, who is an old Mariet Brothers' School boy, recently received a gunshot wound in the left leg, and is now in Hornchunh convalescent camp.

A private telogram received from Gisborno announces the death on Monday of Mr. J. E. Clouston.

Captain Chugg, who was in chnrgo of Iho barque John Murray when sho was wrecked on Maiden Island some tuno ago, arrived in Wellington by the- Moana yesterday, en route to Australia.

The" funeral of the late-Captain John Murray Drewette, of the Tlnion Company's Monowai, will take placo to-day at tho Karori Cemetery. The cortege will leave the mortuary ohapel of Mr. K Morris, jun., CO Taranaki Street, at 2 o'clock this afternoon.

A Press Association telegram from Auckland states that Mr. George Stephenson, manager of Fullers' Opera House, died yesterday.