PERSONAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 88, 14 August 1915, Page 5

PERSONAL.

? Te Wera, has beett»r«* notified to proceed to TrenthaAn on, August 23 to join the Mounted Rifle ■>

A private cable announces the death from wounds of lan. youngest son of Sir John Findlay, 'whose three sons * yre serving as officers in, Deceased, who was eighteen years of age, had had a distinguished school career.

News has been received that Captain Rogers Wilkinson, of Wellington, has been seriously wounded at the Dardanelles. He was in the Expeditionarv Force at Samoa, and was also ‘ ■ , through the Boer War.

Jt is reported that advice has been received in Wellington of the death of Lieut-Colonel (temporary Colonel) Arthur Banchop, who was mentioned in yesterday’s list as having been wounded a second time.—Press Association.

Captain Fittall, R. 0., late Takaka Mounteds, has been appointed to the command of the 95th Company Cadets, Stratford. Captain Fittall is a raeraber of the local staff of the Public Works Department and has long taken an enthusiastic interest in military affairs. ■ ■ f

Mr F. C Binns, partner in the old-established photographic firm of Wrigglesworth and Binns, Christ' church, was knocked down by a motor car while on his way to business the other day, and sustained injuries from which Ire died at the hospital. Deceased, who was 71 years of age, was a. very prominent Freemason. He was Grand Master of the New Zealand Grand Lodge in 1901, and for the last six years was Grand Master of the Canterbury Provincial Grand Lodge.

Writing to Mr X. B. Fryday, of Ngaere, of the death of his son, Private E. J. Fryday, Lieutenant Murray Frquhart, of the Taranaki Company of the Wellington Infantry Regiment at the Dardanelles, says:—“lt is with very deep regret that 1 write you concerning the death of your son. 10-1072 Private Edward James Fryday, who died of wounds on May 12, 1915. He was wounded on April 26. On that occasion two platoons of the Taranaki Company were given a ridge to hold, which they did lor two nights and a day. We were subjected to a very heavy frontal and enfilade fire. Tho men stuck to the position heroically, though it was practically untenable. Your son was wounded in the forearm, and was hit in four places, in the chest, elbow, hand, and thigh. I understand he was bandaging a wounded Australian at the time he was hit. Your son proved himself a good soldier-, both in camp and in the firing line. He is much missed by his com* rades and myself.”