HOSPITAL AND PROGRESS REPORT.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 56, 3 October 1916, Page 5

HOSPITAL AND PROGRESS REPORT.

Seriously ill from wounds. —Corporal F. Findlay, Second-Lieut. R. E. Vial. Rifleman R. Henderson, Privates A. Baxter, A. R. Jones, A. S. Neilson, Rifleman J. D. Allardycc, Privates F. Bulling, H. Richardson, Tioopcrs S. Harvey, W. R. Parker, Lieutenant H. T. Morton, Gunner A'., J. Thomson, Sappers H. Bath,- A. E. Kerslake, Riflemen 0. A. Prior, J. Robinson. A. B. Skoeffe, R. A. McKnagg, J. Ryan, W. F, Spence, E. Bush, Lance-Cor po rul A. Masters, Corporal T. 0. Shaleigh, Private A. W. Klenner, Troopers M. McKenzie, IR. Deacon, Lance-Corporal W. G. | McCartney, Rifleman R.*G, Paget. I Dangerously ill from wounds.— Lieuts. C. G. Adams, V. P. Haughton, Gunner W. Oakdeu, Private W. H. Hewitt, Corporal B. Irwin, LanceCorporal W. Tromans, Lieutenant J. B. Struthers, Private A. J. Cross, Riflemen R. Gawler, J. Straker, Pri- ! vate J. Hunt, Trooper T. Ratcliffe, Privates T. S. Lawrence, B. F. Simcoe. Rifleman 0. G. Petherick. 1 Pronounced out of danger.—Lance- | Corporal J. F. Rudd, j Removed from dangerously ill list: | Private W r . Brodie. Removed from seriously ill list.— Rifleman A. C. Lane.

SECTION 35. WARNING TO THE SLACK FAMILIES. The Hon. J. Allen (Chairman of the Recruiting Board) telegraphs from Wellington to -day as follows: For some time past the • Defence officers as well as the recruiting committees throughout the Dominion have been compiling lists of families that come within the provisions of Section 3d of the Military Service Act. This is the section that empowers the Minister of Defence if he is satisfied with respect to any family that it consists of or includes two or more brothers vho belong to the first division of the Reserve and are not permanently medically unfit to call on any or all of these brothers to show cause before a Military Service Board *why they should not be called up for service in the Expeditionary Force. A total of between one and two thousand names have been submitted to the Defence headquarters as coming within this category. Steps are now being taken to verify the particulars with respect to each of these men, in order to ensure that the notice to appear before a military Service Board shall only be served on those to whom Section 35 does apply. It is expected that the progress of these enquiries will be sufficiently advanced to enable the first batch of notices to be sent out late this week, and they will then be despatched unless in the meantime the men concerned have by voluntary enlistment removed themselves from the operation of Section Sri. It is intended to send these notices out through the Group Commanders, who have been instructed to cancel the notices in all cases where the men named therein have since come forward and voluntarily enlisted. Although the Act empowers the Minister of Defence to call on “any or all of these brothers, ,T Tt is intended to serve a notice to every brother tn the first division no matter hqw, many may ho affected in a family/ t : apd leave the Military Service Board to decide as to how many brothers from one family shall servo. The Rep juicing Board therefore wishes to clearly warn all brothers who belong to the first division of the reserve that tins is their last chance to voluntarily enlist After this week they will be soldiers of the expeditionary force unless they can show cause to a military Service Board why they should not be called up for service.