A BOY'S FATAL GRIEF.
A tragic story of a 'boy's devotion to his father was related at an inquest at London Hospital on Sidney Robertson aged fourteen. His, mother ,said tjiat it was \xoported two and a half years ago that her husband, who was in the retreat from Mons, had been killed. The boy who was greatly devoted to his father was terribly upset, and had a fit, subsequently becoming very childish. Despite treatment in two hospitals he never recovered.
As a matter of fact, her husband was alive, and had been home twice on leave.
'A verdict that death was due to chronic inflammation of the brain was returned.
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Taihape Daily Times, 7 January 1918, Page 6
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111A BOY'S FATAL GRIEF. Taihape Daily Times, 7 January 1918, Page 6
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