PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 22 June 1917, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Lieut. J. A. laing, who has just re.turned from France on duty, is on a sh'ort visit to New Plymouth. He is accompanied by Mrs. Laing. I The last list of New Zealand soldiers killed in action includes the name ot Lieut. K R. Williams, son of the Hev. A. 0. Williams, of Wanganui, wellknown throughout Taranaki. The Minister of Defence has received advice that Major-General Sir Andrew H. Russell, commanding the New Zealand Division in the field, has been slightly wounded. ■Fortunately the injury is so slight that, General Russell is able to remain with the unit.

Mrs. Fanny Legg, a former resident of New Plymouth, aged 00, dropped dead on Monday morning at the residence of her daughter, Mrs. V. B. Forbes, at Remuera. Auckland. Up to the time of her death Mrs. Legg had apparently been in good health.

Mr. Jacob Marx received news at the National' Dairy Conference that his son Eric had been killed in France. The chairman, in communicating the news to the conference, moved the adjournment of the conference as a mark-of respect, This was unanimously agreed

The following Tarannki men are included in Hie recent casualty lists:— Killed: Private J. Stephenson (Mrs. C Sorrensoti, Opunake, mother), Sergeant A. L. Salmon, (late of Hawera), Private John Rea (Mr. John Rea, Douglas, father). Gassed: Lieut. Claude Harrison' (formerly of Hawera). Wounded: Private Frank Wheeler (Haweiia), .T. B. Clemaw (Mrs. Clemow, Opunake/mother), Private E. Dive (Eltham).

Amongst the recent list of those who were killed in action or died of wounds are the following Taranaki men: T. Moffatt (K. Moffatt, Hawera), W. A. Clague (J. A. Clague, Manaia), D. Fraser (A. Eraser, Inglcwood), T. D. Hamblvn and W. C. Hamblyn (C. .T. Hamblyn, Tarikii, A. J. Rea (J.'Rea, Douglas), L.-Corp L. A. Warren (C. Warren, Spotswood, N. P.), R. Williams (J. Rothery, Whangamomona). Died of wounds s J. T- Stott (Mrs, A. Stott, Ngaere).

Mr. A. T. McGonagle, of New Plymouth, has received word that his son. Private Cyril McGonagle, was wounded in France on the, Bth inst. Private Mcflonagfile loft with the Main Body, and was one of the few who, being at the landing on Gallipoli, participated in the evacuation. Both on Gallipoli and in France Private McGonagle earned a reputation as a bomb "strafer," the length and sureness of his throw of the bomb being remarkable. The following New Plymouth men appear in a recent casualty list:—Corporal David James (Mr. J. James, Brougham street, father), Private Stephen Main (Mrs. Main, wife), Lance Corporal Alexander McTsaae (Mrs. C. M. Mclaaac, mother), Private 0. Shepherd (Mr* Shepherd, Fitzroy). Wounded: Private'J. H. Leeman (Mrs, Leeman, wife), Private R. G. Higps (Mrs. Higgs, tnothcr>, Private Gordon Marsh (Egmont Village) has also been wounded.

Dr. T. Hope Lewis, whose sudden death in Auckland was announced recently,! was born in "Liverpool in Wta; and on leaving Rughy School ha studied nt <Bt. Bartholomew's Hospital, London. He entered the Navy in IS7B, but left the service four years later, and was afterwards appointed by the New Zealand • Government as resident medical officer at the Rotorua Sanatorium, After completing his engagement ho comment' cd, practice in Auckland. 'He bold the appointment of Admiralty surgeon and agent for the Imperinl Government, and the position of Health Officer for the 'Port of Auckland under the Colonial Government for fifteen years. Among his other . important l appointments were 1 those nf honorary surgeon at Auckland Hospital and chief medical referee for, (he Colonial' Mutual Life Assurance Society. For many years he took an in(orcftb in Defence matters, and when (he war broke out, he offered his services to the Empire. For somo time before his death, news of which event will he j received with deep regret by all, who knew him, he held the position of Consulting Surgeon t(i the Forces, with the rank of lieutenant-colonel, and discharged his important duties with conspicuonsuccess, the good work which he die. iicing recognised alike by medical men and returned soldiers. Lieutenant-Colonel Lewis was married to a daughter of the) •late Chief Judge Fenton, of the Native Land Court. A motion of condolence with Mrs. Hope Lewis was passed re-' cently by the executive of the N'ew Zealand branch of the British lied Cross Society and Order of St, Johu.