New Zealand

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 81, 2 November 1916, Page 3

New Zealand

CASUALTY LIST. REPORTED KILLED IN ACTION. Trooper G. E. Ellis. Lance-Corporal T. I. Prosser. Trooper J. D. Shaddick. Gunner A. J. Fox. Gunner L. M. Falla. Acting-Sergeant F; P. Hibell. Captain L. V. Hulbert.* Gunner R. Watson. Captain F. N. S. Hitchcock. REPORTED DIED OF WOUNDS. Private ,M. H. C. Olivo. REPORTED DROWNED (Accidentally.) • Al' , v . '■ I A j ,ISapper B. D. Kenyon. . ® i if REPORTED MISSING. ' Gunner S. 'S. Lorrimer. Reported Prisoner of War, Turkey. —Trooper J. Moore. Reported wounded.—Troopers Ej G. Allan, A. Litchfield, W. A. Smith, J. F. Williams, J. Hooper, F. Ayres, Gunner IV. H. Ferrier, Driver J .H. Patterson, Bomb. E. W. H. Prebble, 'Gunner T. W. Mosley, Bomb. L. O’Flaherty, ■ Gunner J. Donaldson, Driver P. Train, Bomb. G. C. Denton, Corporal R. Fletcher, Sergeant H. Corrie, Gunner L. G. Mortensou, Gunner. J. D. Shea, Sapper C. Giles, Sergeant-Major A. W. Johnson. L ‘Dangerously li/, First Australian Casualty;‘Clearing Station, France, from wounds.—Trooper J, L. Guthrie. ; Wounded] admitted to Hospital Gunners 11. T. Dunnage and C. A. Hankins, Trooper W. G. McKinnon. Wounded, embarked lor England. —Corporal Hargraves. HOSPITAL AND PROGRESS REPORT. Dangerously lll.—Private J. Rishwortb, Cororal T. H. Stringer. Seriously 1111.—Sapper J. L. f inlay, Acting-Corporal H. W, Pitt, Privates F. Sniith and J : , Ryan. , Removed from Seriously 111 Ijflfft* ~ Rifleman J. Hewitt. ...” i; uurai Removed from Dangerously.lll last. Private G. S. Bramley. . ■ j Pronounced out of Danger.—DanceCororal G. McDonald, Trooper W. A. Hebherd. " ,In Hospital, .. Rouen.—Private R. G. Young,’ Rifleman P. E. Milligan. ' o • uuilila 00 Lre HAM ;A SOLDIER’S WILL. Per Press Association. Auckland, October 31.

In the Supremo Court to-day, Mr Justice Hosking admitted as proof at a soldier’s will a letter written to his father in England before he h#t New Zealand for the Dardanelles, where he was killed. The will, according to. the solicitor’s testimony, made family bequests of substantial amounts, , and gave the residue of his estate to a young lady to whom the testator was engaged to be married. Before leaving for Wellington Camp he met his (solicitor, and the will was destroyed, the - testator —whose -name was Charles Edward Milling—giving as his reason that ho was about to break off his engagement. In a letter to his father mentioning details of the will, he states that he had broken off his engagement, as it was not fair for the lady to be tied to him, as it was impossible to say how long ho would be away. r , s The Judge accepted the letter in deceased’s own handwriting as proof of the contents of the will, presuming that in the hurry of departure deceased had neglected to make a new will. ZEALAND SIEGE BATTERY. f \ ‘ Wellington, November 1. Mr AUen states that arrang meats have been made with the Impeiial Government to form a New Zealand siege battery. It will be lonned, in the first instance, from New Zea*' nd artillerymen at the front, but . reinforcements will be sent from the Do- ■ minion, requiring about fifty men annually. TWO TARANAKI SOLDIERS DIE IN CAMP. Wellington, November ,1. Private John . Coupe, B Company 21st Reinforcements, died at the Treutham Military Hospital this morning from cerebro-spiaal meneingitis. Hi* parents reside, at Te Kiri, Taranaki. Private James Canadas, of the same company, died this afternoon, also from meningitis. Private Carmans was a married man, and Ids next-of-kin’s address is Patea, Surgeon-General Henderson states that- the recent changeable wqather lias increased the number of influenza cases, but 1 all the patients in the, hospital under treatment were progressing favorably. There, were no fresh cases of spinal meningitis.