MISSING SOLDIER’S GRAVE LOCATED.
AFTER SIX YEARS,
Mr F. Brisco, Eltham Road, has received, an interesting eommunicat'ion from (lie Imperial War Graves Committee, through the New Zealand Records Office (says the Elthnm Argus). The letter states that a grave was discovered in France hearing the inscription ‘■Private F. Brisco, N.Z.E.F.” As the records disclose the fact that Private F. Brisco was not killed, the Commission wished to know if he could furnish any information likely to identify the body under the cross hearing his name, and which was identi(iJd in the first place by a cigarette case hearing the name “F. Brisco.” fortunately Mr Brisco has a lively recollection of the circumstances, and the information he supplies should establish the identity of another man who has been mourned as missing for six years. Early in May Mr Brisco met Private Richard .Tames Maddock, who formerly worked as a blacksmith in the employ of Mr F. Casey, High St. Eltham. Private Maddock scratched the name “F. Brisco” on.a cigarette case lie carried. On the 13th May, Private Maddock was picked to join a raiding party (incidentally, lie look the place of a Private Brown, who it is understood lives at Manga tolci) and as is well known to all “Diggers” the men forming the raiding party had to remove all division colours, shoulder plates or buttons which would serve to identify their unit should'any of its number fall into the hands of the enemy. The raid was carried out Private Maddock was missing when the party returned to their own trenches. At a subsequent Court of Inquiry Maddock was posted as “killed in action.” His body must have been discovered and buried by a burying party, and the cigarette case, bearing F. Brisco’s name, being the only identification mark, a cross was erected bearing that name. Several years ag’o the next-of-kin of Private Maddock advertised extensively seeking information that would confirm the report of his death. The body was found 2,000 yards east of the Colincamps, in the Hehuterne sector on the Somme.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2763, 26 July 1924, Page 4
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342MISSING SOLDIER’S GRAVE LOCATED. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2763, 26 July 1924, Page 4
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