“AFTER LIFE’S FEVER...”

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 559, 11 January 1929, Page 16

“AFTER LIFE’S FEVER...”

GALLANT SOLDIERPATIENT DIES BED RIDDEN FOR TEN YEARS Courage and cheerfulness had never failed him through years of bed-ridden helplessness, and his passing leaves the Evelyn Firth Home a dreary place i oven on this bright day. He was Mr. j Harold James Judd, late of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force. Gunshot wounds injured his spine in the attack on Bapaume in September, 1918, and sentenced him to 10 years’ imprisonment in bed. Still young, still as keen on yacht- : ing as when he and his brother sailed i the Loveliglit in the days before the world was aflame, Mr. Judd was the i most popular patient at the home. He ■ had been there since it opened, havi ing been transferred from the hospital annexe. SERIOUS OPERATION A week before Christmas he was taken to the Auckland Hospital for a serious operation. It was performed, and two transfusions of blood were carried out. but the patient's vitality failed, and he died at ten o’clock last evening. The eldest son of Mr. James Judd, of 68 SackvilJe Street. Grey Lynn. Mr. Judd enlisted when he was 18 years of age, and lie died at the age of 31, 13 years having been given to his country. The funeral will be held at Waikumete to-morrow. The Returned Soldiers’ Association will be represented, and his old comrades will pay him last honours, cars being provided by th© Patriotic Association.