FAMILY PATRIOTS

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 179, 2 June 1916, Page 1 (Supplement)

FAMILY PATRIOTS

PARENTS WHO GIVE THEIR SONS

TO KING AND FLAG

(From "News of the World") Another long list of parents who have given most if not ail of their sons to Kingand country has come to hand! week. We are informed by Lieut. Coleby, of the R.ti.A. at Portsmouth, that his father has two sons, two brothers, a brother-in-law. and two nephews on service, while' another brother, who acts as special constable, is in a starred occupation. Lieut. Coieby's wife has lour brothers-in-law on service, one of whom was wounded in the South African War. Another of the four sustained wounds at the Dardanelles. Ar.ongst the other family records are the following : Mrs. A. "Vlaycock, of Salisburystreet, BermoncLey husband, five brothers and brother-in-law. Mrs. R. Newitt, widow, North St... Thame, Oxford—four sons (one under group system), and ten nephews. Mrs. P. Will cocks. Mill Yard, Lee Mill, Ivy bridge-two sons, brother and nine nephews. Mr. and -Mrs. James Adams, Ada Cottages, Avenue-road, Ramsgate seven sons (one killed). Mrs. Sharp, Distillery-road, Brentford, live sons. Mrs. E. Yerrall, Eastgate, Peterborough, four sons (one killed), two sons-in-law (Derby groups), and 16 nephews (one killed). Mrs. Chippendale, Benhill-road, Sutton. Surrey, five sons. Mrs. Crundwell. High-street, Lewis, bain, five sons and a grandson. Mrs. Fergusson, Havelock - road, Wimbledon, six sons. Mrs. C. H. Light, Shcepscombe, near Stroud, husband, brother, five brothers-in-law (one in Derby group), and five nenhows (one killed). Mr. and Mrs. Farnfield, Tongham, Surrey, throe sons, 19 nephews (one ki'lfd), and four gnat-nephews. Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Hutchinson, Middlernii-streot. Leeds, six sons. Mrs. Edith Fade, Rodon-street, Holloway, <-ix sons.

He can find water with his two hands alone, but his clearest results come from the use of copper wire, u ith copper bands upon his hands. In hi searches at Suvla Bay ho usee! a copper bar.d taken from a dead sheli. Sapper Kelley has been mentioned in despatches.