New Zealand

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 55, 10 February 1916, Page 3

New Zealand

CASUALTY LIST. pRR PRESS AHHOOIATION. Wellington, February 8. Auckland Battalion.— Previously reported missing now reported believed dead: Privates H. Bailey, R. A. Hawkins, and H. S. Robinson. Army Service Corps.— Died of dysentery:' Driver 11. 10. Doherfey. Auckland Mounted Rifles.— Dangerously ill: Trooper L, N. Fisher. Canterbury Mounted Hides.—Dangerously ill: Trboper F. C. 11. Ellen. Ota'go Mounted . .Rifles.— Dangerously ill: Driver F. Robinson. '' Field Artillery.— Dangerously ill in Pout de Koubbeh Hospital: Gunner J. Sharkey.

Army Service Corps.—Previously reported dangerously ill, now reported out of 'danger: Driver W. G-. Van Veen..

Army Service Corps—Reported dan gerously ill: Drivers A. W. Baker, G F. Harvey, Lance-Corporal li. W. A Johnstone.

Rifle Brigade.—Admitted First General Hospital, Alexandria: Rifleman F. W. Kemp. Army Nursing Service.—Pronounced out of danger: Staff Nurse E. Curties.

CRAVES AT CALLIPOLI.

REPORT DY COLONEL RHOUES;

Auckland, February 8." | A report regarding the graves of' New Zealand soldiers on the Gallipoli Peninsula and in Egypt has been received by the Minister lor Defence from Lieutenant-Colonel Rhodes. ] Writing from Cairo on December 21st, Colonel Rhodes states that the graves of all those buried in cemeteries at Cairo, Alexandria, and' Mudros are very carefully registered and can be identified at any time. Some of the iron croses for the graves are now ready, and will be erected before long. Colonel Rhodes intended to obtain photographs of the graves, so.that the next-of-kin might have a record, and, if they desired, arrange for a stone or other memorial to be placed on the graves. Referring to the graves on the Peninsula, Colonel Rhodes said he had arranged with the, 'chaplains to .compile a record of all that could be found, and to make sketches of their position. He mentioned that some of tho men had placed sandstone memorials on the graves of their comrades, but most of them were marked only by wooden crosses. "On Hill 60, in the fighting in' August," Colonel lihpdes adds, "Our j men were buried in a common trench with Turks, and"there was no time to | identify them. Before that many fell ! on the hills <>' Anssac, which we have i not yet taken. At Chunuk Hair we lost a great number of men who we have every reason to believe are dead, but we have no actual proof." Commenting on the last paragraph of the report, Mi' Allen .said that recent casualty lists showed that Courts of Inquiry had been investigating available evidence regarding men who were reported missing during the campaign, and as a result names of men believed to be dead were now being telegraphed. Mr Allen added that he believed all who were prisoneds in Turkey had been reported, as information was obtainable through three sources the Red Cross, the Red Crescent, and the United States representatives.