PERSONAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 68, 17 October 1916, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Dr A Dillon Carbery, writing from the Headquarters of the New Zealand British Expeditionary Force, France, says that he is in excellent health, and wishes to be remembered to Stratford friends.

Owing to the sudden serious illness of his brother Mark Private. Charles James (third son of Mr S. H. James, of Stratford, to volunteer for the Front) was unable to leave with the men who went south to camp yesterday morning, but he joined the Wellington express to-day, and proceeded to camp. Mr Mark James, who was suddenly attacked by appendicitis, necessitating an immediate operation, is' progressing favorably.

Another Taranaki man killed in France was Sergeant Charles Ford, who was for some time in the otfice. of Mr T. B. Crump, of Eltham, and previously with Messrs Standi:sh and Standish, New Plymouth. Leaving with the Wellington Mounted Kines in the First Reinforcements, he spent a short time in Egypt, was promoted to Sergeant with a position in the War Office, London. Then he again volunteered for the front, and \va.« wounded at the Dardanelles. Return ' ing to London, he took up his post again, when he volunteered for active service-in France, and was killed in September last.