MAORI WAR VETERAN
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Sergeant Wilson Dies at Whakatane
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WHAKATANE, This Hay Une oi the iew remainxng band oi Mauri War veterans, Sergeaxxt S. McJ) Wxlson, forraerly of the first Waikato ltegiment and the Armed Coiistabulary, died at his residence at Whakatane, at the age of 89, last evening. He leaves a widow, a son by an earlier marriage and a brother, Mr E. H. Wilson, oi Birkenhead, Auckland. Mr Wilson served in the Waikato in 1 1863 when 15 years of age and was at the Gate Pa, Ngatapa, and in the two years' clxase of Te Kooti tbrough tbe L rewera country, taking his dischai'ge in 1876, 13 years after he commencec) soldiering. He bore his last illness cheerfnlly with the same soldierly philosophy that he learned before the Muori palisades and in the raxn-soaked biisli. His death eaused general sorrow in Whaka tane.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 149, 12 July 1937, Page 5
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