CLUE FOUND TO NAME OF UNKNOWN SOLDIER
CHRISTCHURCH THEORY (Special to THE SUN) CHRISTCHURCH, Friday. A suggestion has been made by Mr. J. S. Neville, town clerk of Christchurch, which may give a clue to the name of the dead New Zealand soldier on whose body, buried near Flers, a gold medal was recently found. “During the war,” he said, “when Mrs. Neville was chairwoman of the Lady Liverpool Fund ini Christchurch, many swimming carnivals were held to raise money for the fund. Medals similar to the one produced were sometimes given as prizes. Mrs. Neville suggests one of these medals may have been won by a girl, M. Taylor, who gave it to a man with the initials ‘B.S.C.’ when he went to the war.” This would explain why the initials ' j on the medal did not agree \yith the name on the other sid«?. It would also ' | explain why the department has failed ; to trace a man named “M. Taylor.” '
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 382, 16 June 1928, Page 5
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162CLUE FOUND TO NAME OF UNKNOWN SOLDIER Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 382, 16 June 1928, Page 5
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