ASSUMED TO BE DEAD
SON RETURNS HOME
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.) DUNEDIN, This Day. To see his son, who he believed "had been killed in the war, walk into his home after an absence of 18 years, was the experience of Mr. John Tohill, of Surrey street, last week. This son, Patrick, was last seen by his parents in 1911 in Canterbury. Upon the outbreak of the war, his four brothers joined up, three being killed.
Patrick was debarred by his youth even two years after the war had started, but under an assumed name he managed to get away with a Canterbury unit. He was wounded in France and also suffered from gas and shell shock, and his injuries caused frequent lapses of memory. As a result, he wandered aimlessly around the- world. As his parents were unaware of his' assumed name, all efforts to trace him were unavailing, and he was assumed to be dead.
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Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 134, 3 December 1929, Page 12
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156ASSUMED TO BE DEAD Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 134, 3 December 1929, Page 12
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