POKENO

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 7, Issue 345, 15 January 1918, Page 1

POKENO

TIIE LATE LIEUT. LORIE Second-Lieut, /.mild Lorie, who was killed on December '2S, served as a private in the Suinoan advance guard. He returned to New Zealand and went away with the fifth reinforcements. Tie remained constantly on duty with the 3rd Auckland .Regiment, until after long and continuous service in France} he was sent to the Cambridge University Officers' Training Corps. After a short training in that and other officers' corps, he was appointed to the 6th Hauraki Regiment. He fought in nearly all the principal battles in which New Zealand troops were engaged in France and escaped wounds until the conclusion of the battle of A.'essines. Recovering after a few days at a re. t camp, he returned to the front, hut was gassed and sent to the hospital in September. He could not have been back in the firing line long bofore he met his death. Lieut. Lorie wos the only son of Mrs S. E. Lorie, of Pokeno. He was educated at the Wanganui Collegiate school and later in Auckland, before enlisting he was farming in the Waikato district. Private advices state that he has hc-en mentioned in Sir l.Wglus llaig's despatches