MANUREWA.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 159, 28 March 1916, Page 3

MANUREWA.

ROLL OF HONOUR UNVEILED TRIBUTE TO THE BRAVE. St. Luke's Church held a crowded congregation on Thursday evening last on the occasion of a special service held for the unveiling and dedication of a Roll of Honour bearing the names of all those from the Manurewa district who have enlisted with the Forces. The seating acI commodation was taxed to its utmost capacity, and the congregation included a full muster oi the Manu- ! rewa section of the 7 Oth Company of I Cadets, in charye of Lieutenant A (i Mabee

During an eloquent sermon the Vicar, the K=v W C Wood, made a fervent appeal tor young men to enlist. He instanced Ihe case of an invalided soldier at Rotorua who, although twice wounded, wss again returning to the. firing line, while men were strolling about with their hands in their pockets neglecting the call on them

In depositing the KoH 0} Honour in its position on the wall near the altar the rev gentleman said "Wo now place it upon the wall of this church to temind us of their service anil sacrifice and that it may serve as a c»ll to pray for tbem and for the cause in which they are engaged." The Koll of Honour is encased in an oak frame two feet bv two and a-halt feet. In the scroll at the head of the Roll in exquisite desgn appear designs of the Hags of England, France, Russia, Belgium and Italy, with the wording "Roll of Honour, War Declared l'Jl4, t»e?ce Declared —. The geateet o( nil wars. Members of the N-,w Zealand Expeditionary Imk'.s IUI4 ;i—.' Enlisted tyanurowa." I'i'tie follow. a red .roes appearing ajonysidi ttiroe wiio have fallen. : Ihe list contains the f. Mowing names, viz.: I.untenant Eric llurd wick Taylor contracted pneumonia in trenches and died in a hospital in Flanders. El« held a commission with a

Sergeant-Major Percy Palmerwas reported missing but afterwards declared killed at landing at GalliI poli

Serge2nt Stanley Edminston —was attached to Eighth Australian Light horse, was killed in second landing at Galipolli Private F R Morton—died on Hcspital Ship of wounds received during lirat landing at Gallipoli

Private David Fraser—died in Wellirgton Hospital of meningitis Sergt-Major Boote, U C M —was twice wounded at Galipolli and sect home to England. He was mentioned in dispatches and was decorated by the King and also by the President of France with a military crcs?. He is now engaged as an instructor under Lord Derby's fcheme

Sergeant-M ajorr R Carter and *Sergtant Stanley Carter-both have been invalided back to New Zealand

Lieutenant Alan R Bailey and Privates Matthew Spencer, Lrrest Wakeham, Harry Gray, Arthur Johnson, Joe Lees, Walter Costar, A E Matthews, Roland A Smith, Owen Dewar, Richard Dewar, Harley Lovall, Charles Mayall, Arthur Stewart, Charles Tunstal). Leigh Smith, Keith Mohr, Allan Munr, H Kay, Joe Taylor, Kobert Johnson and William 'lilbury