PERSONAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIII, Issue 11, 11 September 1915, Page 3

PERSONAL.

Constable Bleasel left for Auckland on a holiday visit last evening.

At the annual meeting of t’ e Lowgarth Dairy Company, Mr E. A. Gray was re-elected chairman, and Mr N. B, Fryday was appointed delegate to the Stratford Patriotic Committee. The “H. Masters” reported as having been killed in action is not related to Mr Jonas Masters or family. Harold Masters, a -on of Mr Masters, lias been reported wounded a second time. Sirs Maxwell, of Toko, recently received a letter from Trooper Alan Maxwell, who is at the Dardanelles. Trooper Maxwell cems to have enjoyed the life in the trenches and at tiie time of writing was in good health. Trooper Maxwell has since heen reported as in hospital. Mr Justice Denniston has received letters informing him of the promotion of his son, Sergeant J. Geoffrey Denniston, to a commission in his own regiment. King Edward’s Horse. Lieutenant Denniston joined this Territorial Regiment while an undergraduate at Cambridge before the beginning of the war. and lias continued in it since. Ho, with some other Chi.st College boys, declined to volunteer for commissions when the opportunity was offered to the regiment, preferring to stick to his Regiment. He was promoted to the rank of Sergeant, and as such availed himself of the opportunity of the illness of another Sergeant to get into the first detachment of the Regiment which was sent abroad, getting to France in April last. He was recently informed by bis Commanding Officer tbat more officers were . wanted for the reserve of the Regiment, and was offered, and accepted, a commission in it. He is now in England completing his teeming. Lieutenant J. Geoffrey Dcnmsfon. is the youngest brother of Mrs H. E. Abraham, of Stratford.