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The Spike: or, Victoria University College Review, June 1916

On Active Service

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On Active Service.

We are at length able to print a list of those past and present students of the College, who have gone upon active service in the present war. The list does not purport to be complete, but it is approximately so. The Secretary of the Students Association would be very grateful for any information that can be supplied, with a view to making this list as correct as possible. Following are the names:—
  • Adams, K. E.
  • Adlam, R. C.
  • Atkinson, G. I.
  • Atmore, C. F.
  • Aston, W. B.
  • Baddeley, H. S.
  • Barnard, S.
  • Batten, C. V.
  • Beechey, F.
  • Beere, R. St. J.
  • Bell, G. G.
  • Bennett, J. B.
  • Berendsen, C. A.
  • Bertrand, G. F.
  • Bernard, V. R.
  • Biss, H. R.
  • Blake, V.
  • Boeufvé, A.
  • Bowler, D. C.
  • Boyce, T.
  • Broadgate, F. K.
  • Brockett, A. G.
  • Bramwell, O. G.
  • Butcher, W. L. G.
  • Busby, W. B.
  • Bastings, L.
  • Burgess, C.
  • Buxton, A. B.
  • Caddick, A. E.
  • Caigou, C. A.
  • Caldwell, K. S.
  • Calman, G.
  • Cammock, W. R.
  • Castle, S. J.
  • Castle, A. P.
  • Clachan, W.
  • Charters, A. B.
  • Clayton, K. C.
  • Clere, F. T.
  • Cooke, P. B.
  • Collins, R.
  • Corkill, T. F.
  • Cowles, J. A.
  • Cox, T. P.
  • Clinkard, G. W.
  • Crasford, E. S.
  • Cunningham, H. A.
  • Daniell, H. H.
  • Davey, I.
  • Davey, G. H.
  • Dawson, T. H.
  • Delamore, A. W.
  • de la Mare, F. A.
  • Dempsey, S. W.
  • Dodson, R. H.
  • Downard
  • Duncan, A. T.
  • Dundon, W. T.
  • Duigan, D. F.
  • East, A. F. D.page 21
  • Egley, B.
  • Ellis, S. R.
  • Evans, E.
  • Fair, A.
  • Fell, G. H.
  • Foden, N. A.
  • Fossett, W. E.
  • Faweett, T.
  • Freyberg, O.
  • Freyberg, P. M
  • Greyberg, B. C.
  • Fulton, J. F. B.
  • Gamble, C.
  • Goodbehere, F. W. B.
  • Goulding J. H.
  • Gowdy, H.
  • Gow, I. B.
  • Greville, R. H.
  • Hall, V. J. B.
  • Hall, T. D. H.
  • Hall-Jones, F. G.
  • Harden, G. S.
  • Henderson, K. A.
  • Hercus, E. O.
  • Hill, R. B.
  • Hogben, G. M.
  • Holmden, T. N.
  • Hosking, J. R.
  • Houston, J. A.
  • Hostick, J. B.
  • Howe, G.
  • Howard, F.
  • Hudson, A.
  • Huston, H.E.
  • Hemmington, G.
  • Hogg, N.
  • Hogg, T. B.
  • Hogg, W. F.
  • Inder, E. W.
  • Jackson, G. C.
  • Jameson, I. D.
  • Jameson, N.
  • Jenkins
  • Johnson, N. S.
  • Johnson, J.
  • Johnstone, C. G.
  • Johnstone, A. M.
  • Jones, S. I.
  • Jowett, H.
  • Joyce, R. F.
  • Kerr, H. W.
  • Kibblewhite, F. G.
  • Knapp, R. H.
  • Kreeft, C. R.
  • Lankshear, B. R.
  • Lankhear. W.
  • Larsen, A. J.
  • Leary L. P.
  • Liardet, L. M.
  • Little, N. F.
  • Longhurst, W. T.
  • Litchfield, B.
  • Martin, F. M.
  • McCaw, W. T.
  • McCaw P. R.
  • McClurg, D.
  • McCombie, C. A.
  • McCormick, C. A.
  • McCormick, H.
  • McDonald, F. E.
  • McKenzie, F. E.
  • McNiven, C. A.
  • MacDougall, A.
  • Mackay, D. E. C.
  • MacNab, A. A.
  • Mackersey, E. M.
  • Malone, B.
  • Meldrum, A. F.
  • Miller, A.
  • Mills, J. E.
  • Morrison, J. E.
  • Morison, B. H.
  • Mothes, F. W.
  • Munro, K.
  • Mackie, H.
  • Morris, W. H.page 22
  • Nicholson, D. H.
  • Nash, J. H.
  • Neylon, W.
  • O'Leary, J. F.
  • O'Shes, T.
  • Paisley, A.
  • Pallant, D. K.
  • Peterson, B.
  • Phillips, C.E.
  • Parker, J. B.
  • Quick, W. A. B.
  • Quigley, M. S.
  • Quilliam, R. H.
  • Quilliam, R. P.
  • Randrup, H. B.
  • Reed, R. W.
  • Richard, J. F. G.
  • Richmond, J. M.
  • Robertson, W. J.
  • Robinson, I. C.
  • Robinson, A. J.
  • Rogers, L. A.
  • Ross, J. W.
  • Rule, W. B.
  • Russell, J.
  • Roots, A.
  • Rigg, T.
  • Saxon, J. H. B.
  • Saxon, K. R. J.
  • Salmond, W. G.
  • Seddon, G. H.
  • Seddon, T. E. Y.
  • Seddon, S. T.
  • Segrif, Rev, T. B.
  • Shaw, L. J.
  • Short, J. L.
  • Sim, W. J.
  • Sievwright, A. B.
  • Skinner, H. D.
  • Smith, J. O.
  • Stainton, W. H.
  • Stewart, E.
  • Stevens, W. E.
  • Stevenson, J. F. B.
  • Stockerm I. P. O.
  • Stocker, E. H. D.
  • Strack, K. J.
  • Strack, G. S.
  • Stubbs, H.
  • Sutton, H. H.
  • Sutton. J. P. C.
  • Spratt, H. L.
  • Tate, A. R. W.
  • Tattle P. G.
  • Treadwell, C. A. L.
  • Treadwell, A. H. L.
  • Taylor, C. H.
  • Taylor, L. G.
  • Turnbull, F. K.
  • Walker, T.
  • Vickerman, H.
  • Ward, T. L.
  • Wardrop, C. L
  • West, F. L. G.
  • Williams, H.
  • Williamson, J. H.
  • Wilson, J. A.
  • Winder, H. E.
  • Wise, V. J.
  • Wright, N. L.
  • Wynyard, C. H.
  • Wells, T.
  • Wilson, A.
  • Webb, A. L.
  • Whiting, E. H.
  • Wells, J.
  • Yeats, D. M.
  • Young, A. V.
Of the above the following have been killed in action, or died as the result of wounds:—
  • Gerald Innes Atkinson
  • Herman Stuart Baddeley
  • Valentine Blake
  • William Thomas Dundonpage 23
  • Sydney Robert Ellis
  • Osear Freyberg
  • John Hannington Goulding
  • Vincent John Baird Hall
  • George McLachlan Hogben
  • George Covell Jackson
  • Ian Douglas Jameson
  • Ingelow Penrose Dunbar Stocker
  • John Edmund Mills
  • Donald Kellway Pallant
  • Charles Ernest Phillips
  • Helger Bro Randrup
  • William Bramwell Rule
  • Philip Gardiner Tattle
  • Holloway Elliott Winder
The following have been reported wounded:—
  • George Frederick Bertrand
  • William Clachan
  • Richard Collins
  • Adrian Wilmot Delamore
  • Alfred Francis Drake East
  • Thomas Fawcett
  • Fredrick George Hall-Jones
  • Reginald Bernard Hill
  • Trevor Noel Holmden
  • Eric Wyles Inder
  • Noel Jameson
  • William Theodore McCaw
  • Frank Ezekiel McKenzie
  • A. A. McNab
  • Bruce Haultain Morison
  • Frederick William Mothes
  • M. S. Quigley
  • Wilfrid George Salmond
  • George Hume Seddon
  • John Lawrence Shortt
  • Henry Devenish Skinner
  • William Houkamon Stainton
  • Arthur Robert Ward Tate
  • Francis Leveson-Gower West

The following awards have been made for distinguished conduct in the field:—

Frank Kingdon Turnbull, Military Cross

Henry Devenish Skinner, Distinguished Conduct Medal

We conclude this list with a few extracts from letters received from students on active service:—

In a letter of the 21st February, F. L. G. West gives us a glimpse of the life led by the nomadic Colonial in England. "Just three weeks ago Hall-Jones and I made a tour in Scotland, the most interesting part of which was a walking and steamer trip through the Trossachs. We trained from Glasgow to Bollock at the foot of Loch Lomond, and there took the small steamer to Inversnaid. As showing how the New Zealand soldiers are wandering over the face of the country, we met among the nine or ten passengers New Zealand soldier from Canterbury taking a day's excursion on the lake—beg pardon, Loch! There is only one lake in Scotland. Some bigoted, Scot tried to tell us there were no lakes in Scotland, but having page 24 just looked up the map I was proud to point to the Lake of Menteith. From Inversnaid we walked four miles to the head of Loch Katrine—passing Loch Arklet (Glasgow's water supply source) on the way— and then continued our walk for another twelve miles past several extremely picturesque smaller lochs to Aberfoyle. There cannot be very much the matter with us as we did the 16 miles in exactly four hours including rests. Everyone told us it was the wrong time of year for the trip, but I think the snow-capped hills and clearer air of a fine winter's day have a beauty all their own.

Writing from Woodcote Park, Epsom, on 24th February, A. W. Delamore throws some light upon the vagaries of the postal service in England. "One of the little Peculiarities of our postal service is that your letters will be jealously withheld for months—not one may pass their official barrier—and then some fine morning in some distant post office William Smith, Acting Lance Corporal (without pay) is disappointed in love and works it off by collecting half a hundred letters and forwarding them. . . . . . . . I hope I am finished with hospitals for a while. I left this convalescent camp for another hospital just before Christmas, but am now back preparing to take the furlough vows. And after furlough, Hornchurch, the depot, and after the depot, the deluge."

Some information as to the whereabouts of a number of Victoria College men is found in one of G. H. Seddon's letters—"Of the other Victoria College men with 4th Reinforcements, McCaw and Skinner were both wound; I have since heard that McCaw recovered from his wound, but has developed typhoid. Quigley was the only one left to do for the five of us. Of other College men Batten has been returned to New Zealand with typhoid, Yates is in Abassieh Hospital, Lieut. West is convalescing in England, Hall-Jones sick at Malta, McKenzie at Lemnos, Collins, who had his right arm blown off, in some hospital in Alexandria, Foster sick in Cairo. As far as I can make out, Castle (Headquarters Staff) East (Ambulance) Quigley, above mentioned and my brother are all that we have at present to do battle for the honour of the College on Gallipoli. You will be pleased to hear that I Still have the College Banner; it was carried during my stay with page 25 the Turks in my haversack, so of course on being hit I carried it away with me." The above letter was written at Alexandria on 11th October, 1915.

In a later letter from Hornchurch on the 7th February, 1916 from the same glad Bohemian, we see once more the wag, whose joy it was of old to give bridge parties on the fourth floor of the Y. M. C. A. "I have been taxiing to theatres, having delightful suppers at Romano's, and the Savoy, wandering down Picadilly and other noted places of in story-books London life. I have spent a night on the Thames Embankment, attended night clubs, dined in dirty Soho Restaurants, been very much in the way in Covent Market, and last but not least, slummed and lost myself."

In the course of an interesting letter written at Moascar Camp Ismailia, on 4th February, Ken. Caldwell (Lieut.) says—"On landing we entrained for Heliopolis where we spent only three days and then proceeded down at Alexandria. Our stay here too, was very limited, for, on the fourth day we were moved out on to a line of communication to the Western frontier. In fact we were included in what is called the "Western Frontier Force." This force was and still is operating against a rising of Arabs between Tripoli and the Nile Valley. Our part of the work was very quiet for all we had to do was to sit down on one hundred and twenty miles of railway line between Alexandria and Dabaa and keep the lines of communication open. We spent Christmas out there. I was stationed with about half a company at a little village called Amria, about 15 or 20 miles from Alexandria. For a time we had Major Beere with us, while A. P. Castle was about 40 miles further up the line. On being relieved we returned to Alexandria for a fortnight or thereabouts finally moving down to Ismalia where we went over some of our training. The other evening we had a visit from Jimmy Stainton who is now a hardned warrior. We also visited George Strack and A. B. Sievwright both of whom are looking well up to the mark."

The every day experiences of life on a transport, and the incidents of the voyage to Egypt are illustrated in a letter received from A. E. Caddick who left the page 26 No. 2 New Zealand Field Ambulance. "We have been five weeks at sea, and have had beautiful weather all the way. We ran into a nasty swell once or twice, and the old girl pitched and rolled a good deal, emptying a fair amount of crockery, etc., on to the deck; but we have seen no big seas. Of course we have had the usual sights at sea—whales spouting, a school of porpoise, an old wind-jammer pushing her way across the Tasman, a large liner "like a grand hotel," flying past in the night, a whale asleep close to our ship, and numbers of flying fish. All this is new to most of us, and though the usual Cockney Ulysses who has seen everything is not unrepresented on board, we manage usually to suppress him . . . . . . . Our first view of Ceylon was at about 3 a. m. on Tuesday morning 29th February. I had come up out of the hold to get a breath of fresh air and have a smoke, when I saw a lighthouse on the starboard. Someone said it was Point de Galle. Two and a half hours later we witnessed a beautiful sunrise over the hills of Ceylon, and at 8 a. m. began to meet catamarans on their way to the fishing grounds. Soon we ran into a regular fleet of them; and then a long stretch of land, covered with palm trees appeared in the distance. Then we saw the moles, which form the entrance to the harbour, and finally anchored in the stream at 9.15 a. m. A number of small boats came out to us, and we got our first view of the native of Colombo. The first specimens were not inviting—one particularly hideous customer stood up in his boat and sang—Ta ra ra boom de ay! Asking afterwards for the nimble sixpence. The fortunate nine of us who got ashore landed at the jetty at 2 o' clock. We entered the main street through the jetty gates, and it appeared to me as if we had just passed through the Gateway of the East . . . . . . . . Then followed a three hours drive in a motor, extending as far as Mt. Lavinia, a distance of 7 miles. To me, Colombo being absolutely new, was a revelation. The different types of native, their different styles of dress, and what the types were took up most of my attention for the time. I could not single out one caste, but I was able to pick out the stalwart Punjabi from Northern India, and the Afghan money-lender. There is a regiment of Punjabis stationed at Colombo—fine fel page 27 lows, vastly superior to the Ceylon natives, and proud of their superiority. Judging casually, I should say that the rickshawman is one of the lowest types. We drove through part of the native quarters, followed by persistent curio vendors until we came to one of the Buddhist Temples. It was a mixture of tawdriness and prettiness, but the impression of tawdriness was upper-most, even though one could not help having a feeling of respect and reverence. I had a short conversation with a yellowrobed priest, but he had little English so I desisted. Then followed a delightful drive past the splendid residences of Europeans and wealthy Eurasians, past more native quarters. Everywhere were trees—banyans, cocoanuts, mangoes, rubber, sandalwood, the everlasting palm. The place seemed a huge garden. We stopped to view a snake charmer and his spotted beauties (cobras), and then arrived at Mt. Lavinia—an idyllic spot."