IDENTITY OF VICTIM OF DROWNING ACCIDENT
There is now every reason to believe that the man who lost his life while attempting to board the Tarawera, as the vessel was moving out from the Queen's Wharf on Thursday eyening last was David Carroll. The latter's brother called at the police station today and stated that the missing man did not arrive at Gisborne as was expected, and nothing had been heard of him since Thursday. Carroll was a single man, aged 27 years, and intended joining his brother at Gisborne in business. -Evening Post, 12/6/1916.
News of the death of Mr David Carroll, brother of Mrs D. Sheehan, St. Andrews, caused deep feelings of sorrow to the many friends he had made while he had been in the district. His own lovable character together with the sad circumstances of his death, (which occurred at Wellington wharf while he was boarding the boat for Gisborne on the night, of June 8th), endeared him to all who had the least acquaintance with him. The deceased was a very popular young man. He had been in the St. Andrews district for some considerable time, and the news of the fatality, coming so suddenly as it did, cast quite a gloom over the whole district. He was always of a bright and amiable disposition, and had a kind word for all. The deepest sympathy is felt by all for his sorrowing relatives. -Timaru Herald, 17/6/1916.
RAID BY GERMAN DESTROYERS.
The Admiralty reports: During the night of the 26th ult. 10 destroyers attempted a raid on our across-channel transports and failed. One empty transport was sunk, the crew being saved. Two enemy destroyers were sunk, and the rest were driven off. A transport and the destroyer Flirt are missing, and the Nubian is disabled. We sank two destroyers.
[The Flirt is a destroyer of the C class, date 1896-7, speed 30.14 knots. The Nubian is of the F Class, date 1906-07, speed 34.7 knots].
The Flirt was last seen attacking four enemy ships. The fight occurred between midnight and 1 o'clock.
The Daily Telegraph says: "The raid was the most ambitious of its kind since the opening of the war. Germany employed 10 of her new, speediest, and best-mounted destroyers, in order to make certain of achieving success. She risked vessels of the value of £1,000,000, and the raid resulted in the destruction of an empty transport."
Official: A Channel raider, when returning, sank a French trawler. Most of the crew were saved.
The Admiralty reports that the crew of the transport Queen were saved, and nine of the crew of the Flirt were saved. The Nubian, which was torpedoed, was taken in tow, but broke away and grounded owing to the bad weather. There is good reason to believe that General von Hindenburg insisted on the German navy making an effort to harass the Channel transport service. It is stated he has a powerful measure of control over the navy, and does not intend to allow the fleet to remain idle, and that it must attempt to assist the German armies.
It is understood that the German flotilla, which is usually of 10 boats, came from Zeebrugge. Germany's loss of two destroyers brings her total loss of destroyers up to 30, reckoning nine to be lost at Jutland.
London newspapers suggest the necessity for an extended use of mines in order to close the egress from Zeebrugge and Ostend. Zeebrugge is now a station for many torpedo-boats, destroyers, trawlers, and a number of submarines, together with wooden dummies intended to mislead enemy airmen when bombarding the port and coast. It is defended by interminable rows of 11in naval guns buried in sand dunes, while behind the dunes are heavy howitzers in protected positions. The whole sandy coast is honeycombed with trenches flanked by subterranean catacombs constructed of concrete and bomb-proof. German torpedoboats and other naval craft are constantly moving between Ostend and Zeebrugge. It is understood that the Germans have been recently turning out exceptionally fast and well-armed destroyers, and brought them to the Belgian ports. -Otago Witness, 1/11/1916.
ROLL OF HONOUR.
CARROLL — On Friday, 27th October, 1916, Lieutenant James Carroll, of H.M.S. Destroyer Flirt, County Kerry, Ireland, brother of Mrs M. B. Sheehan, St. Andrews; aged. 37 years. R.I.P. -Timaru Herald, 8/11/1916.
On the 14th February, the 2nd Battalion relieved 1st Auckland in the left sub-sector of the Brigade sector, so that both our battalions were in the line when 2nd Auckland carried out a raid at 5.45 a.m. on the 21st. That battalion raided from the trenches held by our 2nd Battalion, who lent what assistance it could in the operation. The duck-walks of the front line along the length occupied by the raiders immediately prior to raiding, and the communication saps leading from it back to the support line were covered with straw, over which hessian fabric was nailed down. This had the effect of deadening the sound of the men moving up to position, and of the withdrawal of the front line garrison. All telephonic communications were overhauled and relaid, and emergency lines were laid at all vulnerable points. Stretchers and bearers were placed at the junction of the support line with City Post and Bay Avenue. These were to carry the wounded from the front line to the Regimental Aid Post. The Regimental Medical Officer (Capt. H. M. Goldstein) and his staff were placed at the disposal of the O.C. Raid and shared with the R.M.O., 2nd Auckland, the work of dressing and despatching the wounded to the Field Ambulance. During and after the raid, both our 1st and 2nd Battalions had to submit to the enemy's retaliation. Our 1st Battalion had three men killed and the 2nd Battalion one wounded, the enemy's fire being ill-directed on the 2nd Battalion's front. -Official History of the Wellington Regiment.
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