LIEUTENANT GEORGE JONATHAN DORMER.—Lieutenant Dormer teas one of the best known figures in the last 20 gears of the life of the Volunteer Movement, and in the 10 years which followed it, as a permanentstaff officer. He joined the Royal Navy in 1851 and served in the Burmese and Crimean wars, being wounded in a night attack on the fortress of Sebastopol. . On his discharge from the navy he joined the army as a private and served with the 14th. Prince of Wales Oxen Regiment through the Maori War of 1861-60. After returning to England he received his final discharge in 1883 and came back to New Zealand tosettle. When the City Guards were formed in 1884, he was elected lieutenant and when the Ist. Battalian of Auckland Infantry teas brigaded he was appointed Pay and Quartermaster-Sergeant, later rising to the rank of lieutenant. He died shortly after the Great War.

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 768, 14 September 1929, Page 19

LIEUTENANT GEORGE JONATHAN DORMER. —Lieutenant Dormer teas one of the best known figures in the last 20 gears of the life of the Volunteer Movement, and in the 10 years which followed it, as a permanentstaff officer. He joined the Royal Navy in 1851 and served in the Burmese and Crimean wars, being wounded in a night attack on the fortress of Sebastopol. . On his discharge from the navy he joined the army as a private and served with the 14th. Prince of Wales Oxen Regiment through the Maori War of 1861-60. After returning to England he received his final discharge in 1883 and came back to New Zealand tosettle. When the City Guards were formed in 1884, he was elected lieutenant and when the Ist. Battalian of Auckland Infantry teas brigaded he was appointed Pay and Quartermaster-Sergeant, later rising to the rank of lieutenant. He died shortly after the Great War.