DEATHS ON SERVICE'

Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 October 1940, Page 6

DEATHS ON SERVICE'

NEW ZEALAND SOLDIERS IN BRITAIN TWO KILLED BY BOMBS. OTHERS IN SHOOTING & ROAD ACCIDENTS. (From the New Zealand Official War Correspondent in Britain). LONDON. October 28. One soldier was killed in his billet and two others in the same room were wounded when an enemy aeroplane, turned from its course by anti-aircraft fire, jettisoned its bombs over SouthEastern England. The men were just going to bed in the loft of a brick farm building when a bomb fell eight or ten yards from the foot of a wall against which, on tne other side, their blankets were spread. The bomb burst upwards and outwards, and fragments tore their way through the double brick wall. The casualties were: — Killed. Private I. S. G. Holms, Waipukurau. Slightly Wounded. Private J. Armstrong. Private G. E. Boyle. This is the first death from enemy action of a New Zealand soldier while on duty in England, although the second from enemy action while on active service in England. Corporal J. W. Brown, of Wellington, having been killed by a bomb while on leave in London last week. His body was brought back for burial. In this area recently, also, two men lost their lives through shooting accidents and another (making four in the month from this cause) through being run down on a road by a motor vehicle in a blackout. In all cases the relatives have been officially advised that soldiers dying on active service, from whatever cause, are given a military funeral and their graves are marked by standard military headstones. CASUALTIES IN EGYPT AMBULANCE DRIVER KILLED. MASTERTON MAN WOUNDED. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. The following New Zealand Expeditionary Force casualties are officially announced: — i Driver- Henry Basil Taylor, A.S.C., attached to the Fourth Field Ambulance, died in Egypt from wounds, the result of air bombs. His mother is Mrs I. F. Taylor, Prebbleton. Driver Hugh Mclntyre Lennie. A.S.C., attached to the Fourth Field Ambulance, wounded in Egypt as a result of air bombs. His father is Mr J. Lennie, Opaki, Masterton. Driver Fred Hart, A.S.C., attached to the Fourth Field Ambulance, wounded in [Egypt as a result of airbombs. His mother is Mrs M. Hart, Bolton, England.