CAPTAIN SEDDON KILLED.
FOUR DAYS IN FRANCE. FRANCE, August 21* General regret was expressed throughout the New Zealand Force today when it became known that Captain Richard Seddon, son of the former Prime Minister of New Zealand, was killed in action. He had only a few days ago arrived in France. He was second in command of a company of Rifles that was being held in reserve In ao-nneciibn with fchis morning's battle. During the previous evening some shells burst near him in a trench where he was sitting with/ some others, and they were plentifully sprinkled with the debris.
It was his his first experience of heavy shelling, hut he treated it with equanimity and was quite cheerful. Next morning a shell burst right in the midst of a small party he was with, and he was killed instanteously. Casptain "Dick" 'of New Zealand, was killed by a shell on Wednesday, four days after he reached the front.
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Taihape Daily Times, 27 August 1918, Page 4
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