Roll Honor.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 300, 28 May 1915, Page 8

Roll Honor.

NEW ZEALAND CASUALTIES. THE THIRTY-SEVENTH LIST. 1 TARANAKI MAN'S DKATII. 4 Wellington, Lust Night. ( Tim following casualty lint, number 37, was issued to-night:— KILLED IN ACTION. Artillery. (limner Herbert John 'Manly. Next-of-kin. Mrs. M. Manly, 33 Daniel Street, Wellington, mother. i DIED OF WOUNDS. i Auckland Mounted. Trooper Archibald Oanley Simpson. (Miss ii. M. Maud, Pukeroro, Cambridge.) Wellington Mounted. Lance-Corporal Manly Marfell. (Mrs. E. Marfell, Toko, Tara'naki.) WOUNDED. Auckland Battalion. Private William Smith. Ojrs. Mary Ami Smith, Weston Super Mare, England.) Otago battalion. Private Edmund Brown. (Edwurd Brown, Dover, Tasmania, father.) Divisional Train. Sergt.-Major Harry Archer Potvine. (Mrs.* Emma Potvine, 135 Newlantls Park, Sydenham, London, E.C.) DANGEROUSLY ILL. Wellington Battalion. Private. Frank Rule. (Rev. F. Rule, 45 Richmond Terrace, Christchurch.) Field Engineers. Sapper Lance Fabis Sydney, pneumonia at Heliopolis (Mrs. A. Tcrreni, Khandallali, Wellington). The following progress reports on health of wounded men of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force was issued tonight:— Died at Heliopolis, 22nd May, 11)15 from wounds received in action.—Private Roy Alexander Munro (next-of-kin, Alex. Munro, Rotorua), fractured pelvis. Dangerously ill at Heliopolis from wounds received in action.— Private Horaco Braithwaite (Joseph Braitl) waite, St. Clair, Dunedin), scalp woual; Private William Morissey (Mrs. Mury Tregonning, Lee Stream, Central Otago), bullet left breast liemo—thorax. The following is the nature of the injuries sustained by the undermentioned (all doing well, happy and contented): — Private G. A. R. McKoy, sick, not (vounded. Private E. W. Soper, amputated right leg below knee. Private R. Carroll, suffering from ihrapnel wound. Private 11. L. Reid, bullet wound in chest. Private G. T. Myers, bullet wound in loot. Private D. Mcßurncy, wound in arm. i Lance-Corporal G. L. Popple, wound in chest. ; 1 Private A. 11. Hartley, lost right eye ■ by bullet. i Private J. G. Jackson, bullet wound ■ in body. ■ Private R. J. Kemp, bullet through i head. Private T. B. Buchanan, bullet wound ' in leg. Private 11. S. Larkins, flesh wound in leg, now out of hospital. ; Private G. A. Mclntyre, bullet wound 5 in thigh. > , : Private W. O'Connell, shrapnel wound 1 .in knee. Received May 28, 1.30 a.m. Sydney!, May 27. The Dardanelles wounded include .Sergt. 5. Chandler and Private S. Burns, New Zealanders. WOUNDED NEW ZEALANDEKS. Received May 27, 8.5 p.m. Sydney May 27. The Dardanelles wounded include# Lance-Corporal J. Rhodes tuid Private t N. C. Lynch, New Zealanders.

AUSTRALIAN CASUALTIES. A FURTHER LIST. Sydney, ay 27. The casualty list is as follows: Killed in action.—Lieutenant Blick. Died of wounds. —Major McKeima; Corporals Hallam and Smith; LanceCorporals Goode, Ilillas, and Binning; Privates McConnell, Scott, Wilson, Bathard, Davie, Donovan, Crislield, Lambert, I'aulig, Stringer, Archibald, Messor, and McNeil. Died in Cairo.—Lieutenant Johnstone. Wounded.—Captains Stevens and Finlayson; Lieutenants Brown, Stewart, Scandip, Hornby, Whyte, Jones, and Koyd. 190 non-coms, and men. Missing.'—Lieutenant Brown. Dangerously ill.—Eighteen men. Lieutenant Hugh Laddon Richards, of the Otago Infantry Battalion (killed in action) was the second son of Archdeacon Richards. He was 24 years of age and was educated at the Lawrence High School. He entered the Dimedin branch of the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile. Company in 1!)00 and while ill Dunodin joined the B Battery. On being justed to the Balclutha branch of the bank in 1012 he secured a commission as an infantry officer and was in charge of the territorial infantry company at Balclutha. He was later given charge of the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile branch at Milton, whore he continued his activities as a territorial officer. He volunteered for service at the outbreak of the war and secured a commission in the 14th Company (South Otago) Otago Infantry Battallion. Lieutenant Robert Richards, of the Artillery Brigade (reported died of wounds) was 28 years of age and the eldest son of Archdeacon Richards, of Lawrence, who is now on his way to England. Lieutenant Richards was educated at Christ's College, and was for three years at tho Merchant Venturers Engineering College, Bristol, lie then spent four years at the British Thompson Houston Engineering Shops in Rugby, gaining experience as an engineer He there joined a howitzer battery in the Warwickshire Territorial Artillery Brigade and ultimately

attained the rank of Sergeant. Returning to Xew Zealand in l'Jll, he secured a <■<:inii!mid was a subaltern in B liiittcry, Dunedin. Prior tit tin: war In: hold u position with the Otago Hai'bour Board. On volunteering lie wits presented with n horse by the girls of M. Kiltia's Collegiate School, Dunedin, of which Archdeacon Richards was one of the founders. Lieutenant TTII !.■ h l„ Richards, who was reported killed in action, was a younger brother of Lieutenant Robert Richards. Private Kinnear George Eraser, who has been killed in action at the Dardanelles, was twenty-live years old. He was born at Evpmsdi 11, South land, where he was educated, afterwards going to the Invercnrgill 11 i h School and the Otago Boys' High School. He then became a student at the Otajro University, where he graduated in-1911 with firstclass honours in French and Herman, with the degree of M.A. and B.Se. to his credit, Tie was a prominent figure in the athletic life of the University, and was a swimmer, an oarsman, and an nil-round sportsmen. In April, 1!)1*. he was 'tnpointed master to tlio Napier Boys' High School, and last season was included in the, Hawke's Bay representative Rugby team. He joined the Awapuni section of the, infantry of the-main expeditionary force 011 the outbreak of war, and was transferred to the machinegun section of the Wellington regiment in Egypt. The parents of the dead soldier are. old residents of Southland. Another of !lnir sons, Hut'b, went with the ambulance corps of the main body, now in the Dardanelles. Two of deceased's bribers are Mr ,T. R. Eraser, of the "Wellington Labour Department, and Jlr W. Eraser (Southland), who both saw service in the Boer war, the former as sergeant of a machine-gun battery, and the latter as sergeantmajor in (lie mounted infantry. Captain Arthur Vivian Spedding, who was killed in action, was a son of Mr 1). M. Spedding. of Dunedin, and w.is with the firm of Downie Stewart and Payne, having been admitted as a solicitor a week before he left with the expeditionary force. Prior to leaving with the force, Captain Spedding was an oflicer of tlje 4th (Otago) Regiment, and was also an ollieer of the University Officers' Training Corps. His rank with the expeditionary force was that of second in command of A Company, 4tli (Otago) Regiment of the Otugo Infantry Battalion.