PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 26 June 1917, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Lieut. Eric Bayly is home on final leave.

Corporal 0, Coghill returns to camp this morning. Trooper Geo. StuJjbs, late' of Waitara and now at Trentham, it on * brief visit to New Plymouth. Lieut. Bluckburn, on his return from the front, was entertainend by the Tar»ta settlers, and presented With liquor decanters and stand.

Mr. Geo. Harper, formerly, of Nelson how of Eltham, has received word that his son, Private George Harper, hu been killed in action.

Word was received yi Inglewood on Monday that Lieut. HarrY Kennedy had been wounded. This is the second t!m< he has been wounded, and once gassed, Mr- D- H. Rait, M.R.C.V.S,, who U well known throughout Taranaki, hat returned from Egypt, where he has beet veterinary officer with the Nsw Zealar.e Mounted Rifle Brigade for over tw« years.

A cable message has been received b) Mr. F. Richards to the effect that hit son, Corporal Leo. C. Richards, and also his nephew, Driver Jack Richards, ol Bell Block, have come through the bif fight, and are both safe and well.

Mr. Staekhouse, of Normanby, is aj« v ised- that his son. Sapper A. j. Staekhouse, has been reported wounded and, suffering from shell "shock. He left New. Zealand with the 9ths, in the Rifle Brlgade, and was transferred later to the sappers.

In yesterday's casualty list reference Is made to the following Taranaki ment —Wounded: Private W. J. Ross (J. Ross, Hawera); C.Q.M.S. R. H. Shipton (E. J. Shipton,-New Plymouth), Private W. V. Morey (Mrs, S. Morey, New Plymouth, mother), Corporal C. J. Hamblyn (Mrs. J. Hamblyn, Bell Block, mother), Lance-Corporal S. V. Mercier (Mrs W. Green, Hawera, mother).

News has been received of the death from wounds of Lieut. R. H. Buchanan, son of Mr. A. Buchanan, of Palmers ton North. Lieut. Buchanan left New Zealand with one of the early reinforcements of artillery, and was Subsequently transferred to the machine-gun section. He was a New Plymouth boy, and was a brother of Mrs. W. C. Burrows, ol Vogeltown.

It appears that the Major Redmond whoße death in action wbb announced on Monday, is not the son of- the Irish leader, but. his only brother, W. H. K. Redmond, aged 82, who was wounded somo time back. Mr. Lloyd George's statement* that the major had elected jto g° to the front at an age that unfitted him for the hardships of campaigning is sufficient to establish the identity of the late soldier, as Major Redmond and his brother were the pioneers of the Irish delegation to Australasia in 1863 At that time the soldier was not in .Parliament, being a minor. He attained his majority while in New Zealand, and l.was almost immediately elected to Parliament to represent Wexford. Before his return to Iroland he married Miss Dalton, of Orange, N.S.W. On several occasions subsequently he visited Australia, touchiug at Auckland on hi* way out. He made brief visits to New Zealand in 1005 and 1914, Trior to the war, Major Redmond had military experience as a colonel in the Irish Militia, and shortly after the outbreak of war he was given a commission in the Munster Fusiliers, forming part of the 16th Division. At the time of his death he represented East Clare in the House of Commons.