WAR CASUALTIES

Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 February 1942, Page 2

WAR CASUALTIES

NEW ZEALAND EXPEDITIONARY FORCE MORE PRISONERS OF WAR. NINE DEATHS REPORTED. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. The names of 50 members of the Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force are given in casualty lists issued last evening. Nine deaths are reported. Others relate mostly to prisoners of war. In the reclassifications only the name of the town in which the next-of-kin lives is given:— DIED OF WOUNDS—PREVIOUSLY REPORTED MISSING. SUTTON, John, Pte., Waihi. DIED OF SICKNESS. JOHNSON, Stanley V. S., Cpl. Mrs J. E. Johnston, 11 Oxford St., Ashburton (w). PRISONER OF WAR—PREVIOUSLY REPORTED PRESUMED .KILLED IN ACTION. SIMMS, John, Pte., Greymouth. WOUNDED AND MISSING—BELIEVED PRISONER OF WAR—PREVIOUSLY REPORTED MISSING. CARDER. Leonard, Bdr., Auckland. CARTER, Athol, L/Bdr., Remuera. McCOWAN, Hal, Bdr., Auckland. WOUNDED AND MISSING. BELIEVED PRISONER OF WAR—PREVIOUSLY REPORTED WOUNDED AND MISSING. CAMMELL, Roy, Gnr., Auckland. WYLDS, Colin, Gnr., Tauranga. MISSING, BELIEVED PRISONER OF WAR—PREVIOUSLY REPORTED MISSING. MILES, Frederick, Gnr., Palmerston North. MISSING, BELIEVED PRISONER OF war — rncviuusLY recurieu WOUNDED. MITCHELL, Ariarite, 2/Lieut., Rotorua. PRISONER OF WAR. WALKER, Leon A., Tpr. Mrs C. C. Walker, Box 71, Seddon (m). PRISONERS OF WAR—PREVIOUSLY REPORTED MISSING. GRANT, Robert, Pte., Scotland. OLDHAM, Frank, L/Cpl., England. PRISONER OF WAR—PREVIOUSLY REPORTED MISSING, BELIEVED PRISONER OF WAR. GRAY, George, 2/Lieut„ Wellington. WAFER, Noel, Pte., Greymouth. WOUNDED AND REMAINS ON MISSING, BELIEVED PRISONER OF WAR, LIST. BARTON, Edward, Pte., Dunedin. WOUNDED AND REMAINS ON PRISONER OF WAR LIST. ECKHOLD, Charles, Gnr., Dunedin. FERGUSON, Cecil, Pte., Ross. FROST, Maurice, Pte., Onehunga. DIED—PREVIOUSLY REPORTED MISSING. BARTOSH, Joseph, L/Cpl., Wanganui. PIERCY. Roy, Pte., Aria. WARWICK, Gordon, L/Cpl., England. DIED—FREVIUUSLY REKUH I ED PRISONER OF WAR. MILLER, Henry, Pte., Dunedin.

OHLSON, Cyril, Pte., Wellington South. ROSS, John, Pte., Scotland. DIED OF WOUNDS—PREVIOUSLY REPORTED MISSING. MAVITTY, William, Gnr., Ireland. MISSING. COX, Harry, Pte., Petone. PALTRIDGE. William, Pte., Mokau. SULLIVAN, Francis, Pte., Petone. WOUNDED AND MISSING, BELIEVED PRISONER OF WAR—PREVIOUSLY REPORTED MISSING. HENDERSON, James, Gnr., Motueka. McINERNEY, Lewis, Gnr., Kamo. ROACH, Edmund, Gnr., Mt. Albert. SHERIDAN, Jack, Gnr., Wellington. WOUNDED AND MISSING, BELIEVED PRISONER OF WAR—PREVIOUSLY REPORTED WOUNDED AND MISSING. COUGHLIN, Francis, Pte., Kawau Island. WILKINS, Joseph, Pte., Papakura. MISSING, BELIEVED PRISONERS OF WAR —PREVIOUSLY REPORTED MISSING. ORMOND, Walcott, 2/Lieut., Herbertville. LIVINGSTON, Peter, Pte., Gisborne. NICHOLSON, Victor, Pte., Featherston. RAE, Walter, Gnr., Whakatane. PRISONER OF WAR AND WOUNDED—PREVIOUSLY REPORTED WOUNDED AND MISSING. SCHWASS, Alfred, L/Sgt., Blenheim. PRISONER OF WAR AND WOUNDED—PREVIOUSLY REPORTED MISSING. OLIVER, Francis, Gnr., Timaru. PRISONER OF WAR—PREVIOUSLY REPORTED MISSING. CHRISTENSEN, Stanley, Gnr., Christchurch. DRAWBRIDGE. Hugh, Pte., England. JACKSON, Ivor. Dvr., Lower Hutt. KING. John, Pte., Whangarei. MCLENNAN, Kenneth, Pte., Havelock North. POLSON, Laurier, Sgt., Christchurch. WOUNDED AND PRISONER OF WAR—PREVIOUSLY REPORTED PRISONER OF WAR. COLLIN, Frank, L/Cpl., Gisborne. UPTON, Harold, Gnr., Ashburton. PREVIOUSLY REPORTED MISSINGNOW REPORTED NOT MISSING. DALE, Edmund, Pte., Woodstock.