ASSUMED TO BE DEAD.
SON RETURNS HOME. Dunedin, December 3. To see .his son, who he believed had been killed in the war, walk into his home after an absence of 18 years, was (lie 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 wair, 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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Manawatu Herald, Volume L, Issue 40035, 5 December 1929, Page 3
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152ASSUMED TO BE DEAD. Manawatu Herald, Volume L, Issue 40035, 5 December 1929, Page 3
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