SUDDEN DEATH AT SEA
SERGEANT B. W. LEGG. Tho death occurred at sea last month of Senior-Sergeant Bertram Willoughby Legg, the only son of Mr. and Mrs. W. Legg, of Pahiatua. Tho lato soldier was Twenty-seven years of age. Ho was born at Wellington, educated at one of tho city schools, and Wellington College. ' 110 afterwards was attached to tho iicms of Briscoe, MacNeil and Co., and J. Duthio and Co. Ho left the latter firm to join tho original Force dispatched from Now Zealand to Samoa, being at Samoa for about nine months. Returning to the Dominion, ho subsequently joined the' Fourteenth Reinforcements. Chaplain Cruickshanks, in a letter which tho parents have received, stated that deceased had been suffering from measles, but was-con-valescent, and able to get out of bed. Ko, however, took a turn for tho worse on Saturday, July 15, and developed a convulsion' at 4 p.m., and died a quarter of an hour later, 110 was buried un the Sunday moruiag.
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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2865, 1 September 1916, Page 7
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165SUDDEN DEATH AT SEA Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2865, 1 September 1916, Page 7
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