New Zealand

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 2, 3 May 1915, Page 5

New Zealand

NEW ZEALAND DEATHS. Per Press ".ssooiatiON. Dunedin, May 2. The Hod. J. Allen, lias received a from tho Defence headquarters at Melbourne stating that Private W. B. Knight, son of F. ML Knight, Waipori, Imt who was with the Ist Australian infantry battalion, died between April 27 and 29 from wounds reecived in action in the Darjdanelles. Mr Allen lias received a cablegram from Alexandria that Lieut. .Frater, of the Auckland division, died on April 30, from wounds received on a hired transport. THREE MORE DEATHS. Wellington, May 3. Information has been received that following further casualties occurred in the New Zealand Expeditionary Force: DIED OF WOUNDS— No. 8-752 Private Alfred Richard Hayward, 10th (North Otago) Company Otago Infantry Battalion. Next of kin, John Hayward, Abbotsford, Dunedin. No.- S-152 Corporal Peter Coupertliwaite, 14th (South Otago) Company Otago Infantry Battalion. Next of kin, A. Gibson, Kelso, Otago. No. 12-483, Private Robert Watson, 6tb (Hauraki) Company Auckland Infantry Battalion. Next of kin, John Watson, Tirau, Auckland. These casualties occurred between the 25th April and Ist May. INGLEWOOD MAN WOUNDED. “ROOP” NICHOLLS INCAPACITATED. Inglewood, May 3. A cable froni Alexandria this morning states that Rupert Nicholls, well known local man, was wounded in tho thigh. i (“Roop,” as Nicholls is so well known by in Taranaki, is an ex-Strat-ford High School boy and a popular footballer. Brother George is also with the expeditionary force, as well as their brother-in-law Lieutenant Alridge. The Nicholls family, it will thus be seen, is strongly represented, but, then, they are well-known as good sports.) DIED AT SEA. Dunedin, May 3. A wireless has been reecived stating that Private Dan Bardsley, of the second reinforcements, who had been invalided home, died at sea on April 29th. LIEUTENANT TURNBULL, OF WANGANUI. Wanganui, slay 3. A private cable states that Lieutenant F. K. Turnbull, solicitor, Wanganui, who was a member of the first expeditionary force for Egypt, was wounded and is in Alexandria hospital'. ZEALANDIA’S TIME OF TRIAL. ■‘OUR HEARTS AND THOUGHTS ARE WITH THEM.” Dunedin, May 3. The Hon. James Allen (Minister fer Defence) sent the following message to General Sir A, J. Codley: “Have read with quickening pulse the meagre news M your magnificent doings. New Zealand . awaits the casualty list with a forittude born of pride, that her sens have proved tnemaeives v.-irthy in this time of trial. Please say to your command, and especially to the wounded, that our hearts and thoughts are with them.”