PERSONAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 93, 16 November 1916, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr R.Masters left by this morning’s mail train for Wellington. The health of Mr Peter Hancock, well-known resident of Juliet Street south, Stratford, has taken a turn for the better. Lieutenant Lineham, who is on transfer from the sth Wellington Regiment to the 11th Regiment, Taranaki Rifles, has taken over command of “D” Company, Stratford. Mr E. J. Dennett, of Stratford, who enlisted and went into camp with the 11th Reinforcements, but was rejected as medically unfit, owing to an injury to bis knee whilst in camp, has tried no less than eight times to be passed for service. If every man tried to enlist as Mr Bennett has done, there would he no need for conscription. Writing from Codford, Wilts, England, under date September 17, Sergeant George Hunter states that he developed a slight cold while inEgypt, and that on his arrival in France and after a lively time in the trenches, the trouble turned to bronchitis. He was then invalided home to England, where lie had been for the previous three months. His old battalion had not been doing much since ho left, but there were indications that tltey would bo shifted to the Somme region. Sergeant Hunter has no time at all for the high explosive shells. He had got quite accustomed to machine-gun and rifle fire, although they had never had to face it in the open, while the dug-outs were proof against shrapnel, but the high explosives went through everything and made an awful mess of things. One of these Hun shells in one hit settled a major and a doctor who were comfortably seated in their billets. Sergeant Hunter wished to be remembered to all old friends.