GALLANT PADRE'S DEATH.

Taihape Daily Times, 16 July 1918, Page 4

GALLANT PADRE'S DEATH.

THE EEV. PATRICK DORE.. The death took place at the Mater Misericordae private hospital, - Auckland, at 11.30 o'clock yesterday morning, of the Rev. Father Patrick Dore r one of the chaplain heroes of the Gallipoli Peninsula. Born in Newcastle West, County Limerick, Ireland, thirty three years ago, he was educated at Kilkenny College, where he was ordained eight years >ago last May. Arriving in New Zealand in 1910, he was first stationed in a curacy at Palmerston North, where he worked for a year before being given the charge of the Kaikoura parish. Two years later Father Dore was transferred to the charge of Foxton parish, and while there he volunteered as a chaplain to the forces, and left with the New Zealand Main Body in October, 1914. He landed with the first troops at Gallipoli in April of the following year, and. for his noble work in the field attending to the wounded won the warmest regard of the troops generally, while his gallant devotion to duty gained him the Military Cross, bestowed jSjjfebravery and devotion to his duty under fire." While he was. attending to the wounded in the heavy fighting of. August 9, .1915, a bullet struck him in the spine, cuasing partial paralysis, and from the effects of which he never recovered. The gallant Padre was invalided to England, and later came back to New Zealand, being for some time in Lowry Bay Hospital, Wellington. Last Janniary Father Dore went back to Foxton to assist Faher Forrestan, and a few weeks ago arrived in Auckland to undergo all operation at the Mater Misericordae Hospital for the removal of the pressure that was on the spine, and which had caused him intense agony ever since he was wounded. The operation was apparently successful,' but complications suddenly set in, and he passed away this morning.