SOLDIER'S FUNERAL

Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 85, 7 October 1938, Page 10

SOLDIER'S FUNERAL

COL. D. COLQUHOUN, D.S.O.

Both ex-servicemen and business men were largely represented at the funeral of Lieut.-Colonel Duncan Colquhoun, D.5.0., V.D., this afternoon when the former commander of the 3rd Otago Regiment was buried in the Soldiers' Cemetery at Karori. Colonel Colquhoun was always popular both with his fellow-officers and his men, and an unusually large number of former comrades filed past his grave to drop a Flanders poppy in farewell after "We Shall Remember Them" had been recited.

A service was .conducted at the mortuary chapel by the Rev. J. E. Lopdell, formerly padre of the 4th Otago Regiment, and Mr. Lopdell, also officiated at the graveside.

The pall-bearers were Colonel A. B. Charters, C.M.G., D.S.O. (representing the Otago Regiment), Mr. W. H. Barnard (Defence League), Lieut.Colonel A. Cowles, V.D. (Wellington R.S.A.), Mr. S. G. Harrison (N.Z.R.S.A.), Mr. J. Spence (Wellington R.S.A.), and Mr. W. E. Leadley (Civil Re-establish-ment League)-.

The chief mourners were Mr. Douglas Colquhoun (son), Messrs. N. H. Colquhoun, H. Colquhoi,**, and J. A. Colquhoun (brothers), Mr. V. Birss (son-in-law), and Mr. Douglas McDonald (nephew).

Colonel Colquhoun had become his friend at Tapanui in 1910, Mr. Lopdell said, and he met him again when he joined the Fourth Brigade in France. During the Passchendaele period Colonel Colquhoun did distinguished work in his leadership. He was a most understandable man and gave frequent opportunities for a padre's work, and when he was at Communion he handed the elements to his men. He was a good and brave soldier as well as a good man, and his passing meant the loss of a genuine man and firm friend.

The N.Z.R.S.A. was represented by the Hon. W. Perry, M.L.C. (president), Messrs. J. D. Harper, C. W. Batten, G. Hayden, A. Gorton, and S. G. Harrison (secretary), the Wellington R.S.A. by Colonel Cowles (president), Messrs. L. Hill, H. Rowntree, F. Butler, G. A. Young, J. Leslie, H. W. Cave, J. Butcher, T. G. Denniston, T. J. and J. M. Quayle, Colonel G. Hall, the Christchurch R.S.A. by Colonel J. Murphy, the Hutt Valley R.S.A. by Mr. A. E. Pattinson, the South African War Veterans' Association by Captain J. J. Clark, and the New Zealand Red Cross by Captain M. S. Galloway, M.C.

The Wellington Bowling Club was represented^ by Messrs. A. E. Farrant, W. G. Faulknor, W. Robson, J. T. Haddon, F. Smith, E. Stonebanks, J. C. E. Turner, L. Goldfinch, J. H. O'Donnell (president), R. Davison, A. Simpson, A. Ballinger, J. Wood. S. Potter, D. Christie, A. G. Dawson, W. Walker, C. R. Ingram, T. T. Skoglund, R. B. Reynolds (secretary), and R. M. Roberts.

Others present included Mr. J. W. Andrews (Mayor of Lower Hutt), Mr. G. Tolhurst, Mesdames F. E. Joyce, Francis, Denniston Wood, Gibbs, and Smith.