ROLL OF HONOUR.

Levin Daily Chronicle, 18 October 1917, Page 2

ROLL OF HONOUR.

PRIVATE WILLIAM C. G. HARVEY. The cabled predictions that our boys had suffered heavily in the last great battle on the Ypres front appear to be fulfilled in the casualty reports now coming to us. Advanced telegrams published in various parts of New Zealand show that many families have again been bereft of promising sons, and already one Levin family has received sad news. Yesterday afternoon Mr C. T. Harvey, of Winchester street, received a message from the Defence Minister that his eldest son, Pvte. Wm. C. G. Harvey, had died of wounds on 9th October, at an Australian casualty clearing station on the Ypres front. Private Harvey had not been a resident of Levin, having enlisted with the Elevenths from Wanganui, where he was well known and most popular. He was only 23 years of age, and had been on active service for eighteen months. He had passed through through all the big fighting of the last two French summer campaigns, and had been slightly wounded in April last in Flanders. Now he has been called, with many another gallant New Zealander, to give his life for his country. In a good cause he has died, and his parents have this consolation in their bereavement. PRIVATE ANTONIO SPACCESI. Advice was received in Levin ye s " terday by a telegram to Mr Cole from the Minister for Defence that Private Antonio Spaecesi was killed in action in France on October 4. During his residence in Levin, ''Tony" Spaccesi made many friends by his cheerful disposition and pleasant manner. He was a Gorsican, who went as gladly as he had lived to do his part in the great world war, and now that he has made ! the supreme sacrifice in the Allied cause, his death' will be mourned by all his friends in Levin. The French tricolour was . flown at half-mast over Miss A. L. Cole's premises in Oxford street to-day in respect to his memory. PVTE. RICHARD RANSFIELD. JL'rivia'to Uichard liansfiold, a member of the first -Maori Contingent , and one of tlwse who went through the gallant but hopeless campaign on Gallipoli, passed anvay on Monday. He was a son of .\lr S. ltansfiold, of Manakau, and was well-known throughout the district, particularly at Kuku, where he worked for some time. He returned from the franji; a, few months ago, and after a stay in the Sanatorium schemed to have almost regained bis former health, lint his illness recurred and he rapidly declined. In -tho course of his remarks at the Oluiiu social 011 Tuesday night, the may. or Oif Lovin drew attention to Firivate llansdidld's name standing almost first onl the Oliau Roll of Honour, and commented 011 the sadness of the young soldier's homecoming. At Air Blenkhon. - * -suggestion, the audience rose silently and sfrood for a moment as a mark ot respect to Private ltansfield's memory .