PERSONAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIII, Issue 38, 14 October 1915, Page 5

PERSONAL.

The death of the Hou. John Duthie, AI.L.C., at the age of 74, is announced from Wellington. Mr Edward Stafford, a well-known Wellington lawyer, is dead, reports the Press Association, pgr-g Private novice received in Stratford states that Dr. Dillon Carbary left London on August 28 for the Dardanelles. Mr William Jones, Stratford, has been passed a-s medically fit for the Mounted section of the Reinforcements. Misses Mary Bell and Augusta Manor, who gained the possible marks (100) in the preparatory division at the Trinity College of Music examinations are both pupils of the Convent. The many friends of Miss Eilleen Anderson, daughter of Air A. F. Anderson, of Strathmore, will be sorry to hear that she has had to he operated on for appendicitis at Palmerston North, at Nurse Robey’s Private Hospital. All's Pratt, wife of Air F. Pratt, solicitor, of Christchurch, and sister of Airs W. J. Crawshaw. of this town, died this morning at her home in Christchurch after a severe illness. Mrs Pratt had many friends in Stratford. who will deeply regret to hear' of her end. Air Alf. (“Ned”) Kelly, who was for some time a popular member of the j staff of the Stratford Co-operative Store, and who has recently been residing in Rotorua, is now in Trentham Camp. This is the result of Mr Kelly’s fine spirit of determination. He made four visits to the medical authorities, and was turned down every time, but by strict' attention to hygienic principles. often at personal inconvenience, Mr Kelly built up his constitution to the required standard; and his desire to he a soldier is on a fair way to be accomplished. His many friends here will wish him the best of luck.

IV. P. Davidson, who died of wounds at Anzac on August 31, was a New P’ymouth man. His father, an exMayor of the town, was a captain iri the Mounted, Rifles there, and formerly held the rank of General in the Federal Forces during the American Civil War. Private Davidson served in the South African war, and went away§ with the Alain Exepditionary Force in the present war. He was wounded three days after the memorable landing at Gallipoli, and was invalided to England, where he spent eight weeks in hospital at Manchester. Shortly after returning to the Dardanelles he was reported wounded on I August 29. but since then no news was 1 received of him, until on Tuesday Airs Arnold George, his sister, was notified of Ids death. “Bruiser,” as he was popularly called, was held in high esteem by those who knew him. Deceased was the eldest son of Airs AY. Kelly, Regan Street, Stratford, 'brother of Airs Alark Reynolds, Skinner Road, cousin of Air AV. H. Kelly, of Stratford, and a nephew ot the late Constable Ryan. General Godley, writing to the Hon. James Allen (Minister of Defence), from Anzac, under date August 14. says:—“Colonel Bauchop was desperately—l am afraid mortally—wounded, while most gallantly leading his men to the assault on the night of the 6th, under most extraordinarily difficult conditions, and in a country where nothing but the most gallant troops could possibly have succeeded. I saw him after he was brought down, and though he was hardly conscious, all he said was, T hope we did what you wanted,’ and ‘lt was glorious l while it lasted.’ Colonel Alalone similarly was killed at the head of his hatjtalion, at the very top of a ridge overlooking the Dardanelles, and is buried in a Turkish fort, which only a leader ‘of most exceptional valor and courage could have captmed. I can niogmo no more fitting resting place for such a gallant soul. Colonel Findlay and Major Overton, of the Canterbury Alounted Rifles, also Colonel Chapman, of the Auckland Alounted Rifles, fell in the most gallant manner, and both Moore and Aloir, of the Otago Battalion, were splendid in the way they led their men.

Private C. E. Barker, of Caidiff, who went away with the 4th Eeinforcements, writes a very interesting tale of the operations at “Quinn’s Post,” in which Colonel Malone and so many gallant fellows lost theii i lives. Private Barker incidentally mentions that another Cardiff man, | Mark Wallace, was in hospital at Pont Lie Keubbeh Hospital, Cairo, on AugI ust 28. both being nm down by the (strenuousness of the work of weeks in the trenches. At the time of writing they were both just about fit again go hack to the Peninsula, which, 1 Barker stated significantly, was sim- | ply “bell on earth.” In the letter there are delightful instances recorded pf duty’s call being readily responded to. and Private Barker relates in sim--1 pie language the part which he had | taken in several heroic escapades. From another source, however, it is learned that Private Barker has been “mentioned in despatches,” as the result of his gallantry on several occasions during those eventful days. ! What this Cardiff hoy went through, and appeared to regard as events ( which might be met with in any day s UMirch. but which will strike a chord of j admiration in every reader’s heart, is published in the brave fellow’s modest wav in another column in this issue.