PERSONAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2, 31 August 1915, Page 4

PERSONAL.

.Mr Frederick Mitchell, Puniwhakau, has been passed as medically fit *or the Reinforcements, Advice received in Auckland to-day state that Bishop Geary was operated on again yesterday and came through I successfully. Lieutenant Buchler, of. the Strati ford District High School, has been I notified to report himself at Trentham on Tuesday next. i. •[" | Mr and Mrs Joint .Andrews, for many years residents : of Huirangi. and now living at Waitara Road, cele-brated-their golden wedding in Waitara yesterday, by a gathering in the CHil'ton Hall, which was attended by | friends from far and near. I Trooper John Graham, son of Mr 1 Alex. Graham, of Onaero. who had been previously reported as seriously wounded, has succumbed. The Waitara Mail says: This young fellow was one of the first to volunteer from this ' district, aitd "he"' was" one of 'the five- - given a farewell; in the Clifton Hall last SctftffAj/dtJ W i f HRfjl J. '" , ' Mr T. G. Grubb. local secretary of the Trinity College of Music, presented a j medal t] j f |£s?s& l f .rjV'Jj"? ! j the highest marks in each division, ' ' fcliesd being won by Mabel Price, senior division, with 84 marks Convent); Lornji Forbes;,,. ii}ternijftdiate ( 83 Marks (Miss Evans); Phylis Weston, 'junior division 86. murks (Miss Evans; Isabel Hunter, preparatory, 89 marks (Convent); Antoinette LoneJI gan, first step, 83 marks (Convent'). The incidents connected with the death of Lieutenant J. H. Allen are described in a letter received by Hon. J. Allen (Minister for Defence) from an officer of high rank. The mixed force with which the Essex regiment was associated got into a difficult position ion, June 6, owing fo the centre having got too far forward. Some of bhe troops were libnioed out of an ad- '" vaheed trench, aiid Lieut. Allen and another officer acted "most gallantly", in attempting to check the retreat. They succeeded, but they had to ex-' pose themselves freely, arid the plucky act cost Lieut. Allen his life, "f am pleased to be able to tellyou that your son died doing a very gallant -act. which entailed almost certain death," writes' the officer. "To do as he did required a cool head and a brave heart."