New Zealand

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 69, 21 July 1915, Page 5

New Zealand

NEW ZEALAND CASUALTIES. LIST NO. 122. Reported younded (July IS).- Field Artillery: Bombiidior Frank Claude Bryan, chest and Meek (next of kin. \Y. Bryan, Awnhuri. North Island). Wounded Gunner Henry Kdge Halpin, left ley amputated (.John Halpin, Terrace Street. Palmerston North); Gunner Owen George W. Priest, left arm (O.J. Priest, Palmerston North).

Died (July 7) from gunshot wound in abdomen :—Canterbury Mounted Regiment: Trooper John MacDonald .Peter MacDonald, Wairau Pah, Marlborough, father). RECOVERED AND SENT TO FRONT. Auckland Battalion. Captain J. A. Walling'ford. Otago Mounted. Trooper P. Dysaski.

SENT TO ENGLAND. Canterbury Mounted. Lieutenant W. Deaits. Otago Battalion. Lieutenant R. H. Nicolson. SICK AND DISCHARGED AS CONVALESCENT. Wellington Mounted. Trooper L. M. Pearson. DISEMBA RKEI) AT }l ALTA. Canterbury Battalion. Private C. Strang (pneumonia). Private R. J. Gibbs ("slightly sick). Auckland Battalion. Private S. Houston (slightly sick). Otago Battalion.

Private G. C W. Davis (slightly sick.)

PLUCK and PERSEVERANCE

TRIBUTE TO NEW ZEALANDERS J'kh Pkf.ss ASSOOUT.'W. • Hastings, July 20. Captain Ernest Boxer, of the New Zealand Field Ambulance with the Expeditionary Force, alter paying a high tribute to the pluck and perseverance of the New Zealaiiders, adds a word as to the spirit in which the wounded men met their troubles. I have seen ghastly things—terrible wounds and disfigurements; 1 have seen wounded men forty-eight and even seventy-two hours on the outposts unable to be succoured: 1 have seen men dying ill agony and have closed their sad wan eyes, but out of all the honor of it arises the great glory in the very suffering that New Zealand produced and will yet produce such noble heroes, who suffer and die without murmur. Brave little land of ours! She has indeed done what she could, and' sealed her bond of Empire with her rich red blood. Honour the heroes of our regiments when they return! Forgive their faults (the ondy relative after all), and let the laird *ee and feel tke personal debt it owes tJiem."