WAR CASUALTIES

Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 May 1941, Page 4

WAR CASUALTIES

NEW ZEALANDERS OVERSEAS FURTHER LIST OF MISSING. FIVE MEN REPORTED WOUNDED. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON. This Day. A casualty list issued last evening contains the names of 454 members of the Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force who are reported missing. This brings the number of officers, non-commissioned officers and men announced as missing up to 1888. The figure is 312 short of that given on Sunday night by the Acting-Prime Minister, Mr Nash, when he announced that he had been informed by the Prime Minister, Mr Fraser, that 2200 New Zealanders were missing as a result of the Greek campaign. A special list was issued last evening containing 39 names previously included in lists of missing but now reported not missing. Five wounded are also included in yesterday’s casualty list. MISSING. Wairarapa names among the missing are: — Thurston, Dudley M., Pte. Mrs I. Thurston. Dairy Factory. Featherston (wife). Wilson, William J„ Pte. Mrs C. Wi-L son. P. 0., Grey town (mother). Baikie, John G. C„ Pte. Mrs E. Bai- # kie„ 96 Bentley Street, Masterton (mother). Blair, Cecil D„ Pte. Mrs J. Blair, Mangamutu, Pahiatua (mother). Brickell, Alan W., Pte. Mrs A. Brickell, Kent Street. Carterton (mother). Keltie, Harry, Pte. Mrs A. Keltic. Greytown (mother). Lennie, William S., Pte. Mr J. O. Lennie. Box 51. Masterton (brother). Lyster, Leslie A.. Pte. Mi-E. Flood. Cotterville Street. Grey town (friend). PREVIOUSLY REPORTED MISSING, NOW REPORTED NOT MISSING. Henderson, Frederick, Gnr. Mr W. F. H. Henderson. 36 Perry Street, Masterton (father). WOUNDED. Connett, Albert, Gnr. Mrs N. Connett. 27 Warnock Street, Grey Lynn (wife). Prestidge. Douglas J., L/Cpl. Mrs M. J. Prestidge, Manawapou Road. Hawera (mother). Clarke, Edward W., Pte. Mrs M. Clarke. 15 Sackville Street, Fitzroy New Plymouth (mother). Tidman, Charles H., Pte. Mrs D. Tidman, Wallers Street. Takapuna (wife). Forrester, Hector J., Pte. Mr Wi Katae. Tiki Tiki, East Coast (father).