PERSONAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 60, 7 October 1916, Page 4

PERSONAL.

The Rev. R. B. and Mrs Tinsley left for New Plymouth by this morning’s train. Killed in action was Private Leslie James, aged 23, son of Mr F. R. James, Cover Street, New. Plymouth. Mrs F. W. Green, of Hamlet Street north, is a sister of the deceased, who was engaged in his father’s shop in New Plymouth prior to enlistment. He left with the 10th Reinforcements. \ ‘ : A representative meeting of citizens of Palmerston North decided as a memorial to perpetuate the memory of the late Dr. Martin, to erect a new men’s ward at the public hospital, to be known as the Martin Ward, and • a committee was set up to carry out the proposal.—Press Association.

Mr S. H. James, who for over 30 years has held the position of Registrar of Births, Deaths 7 and Marriages, at Stratford, has resigned, owing to the pressure of private business, and Mr W. J. Reeve, the Clerk of the Court, has been appornted in his place.

Included in the list of killed in action is Private Samuel Robert Hart, son of Mr and Mrs H. Hart, of Hamlet Street south, and formerly of Beaconsfield Road. Private Hart, who left with the Bth Reinforcements, was a prominent member of the local Salvation Army Corps, and was generally liked by everyone. For some time ho worked for Mr W. Monson, of Finnerty Road, Ngaere. Two other brothers have left for the front. Much sympathy i s expressed for the family in their loss.

Private Harold Campbell Pidwill, who was killed in action on 16th September. was a native of Wanganui. Ho was a grandson of Mrs Campbell, of Rosalind Street, Stratford and nephew of Mr Hugh Campbell, of the local railway staff, to whom the sympathy of many friends will be extended. Private Pidwill was just twenty years of age, proceeding to the front as a member of Lord Liverpool’s Own, first seeing service in Egypt with his unit before going to the battlefields of France. In a letter to his grandmother recently, he referred to the fact that all his mates in the machinegun section to which he was attached had gone, and he was the only one left. The deceased soldier was a very popular young fellow, and will he remembered by many as a competitor at the last swimming carnival held in Stratford.