NEWS OF SOLDIERS.
A PAINFUL CASE. APPARENTLY GROSS OARELES3NKSS. By Telegraph.—'Press Association. Tiinaru, Last Might. A disagreeable case in whit ion to ibe identification of casualties has occurred here. The parents of Trooper R. H. Barton (Otago Mounted Rifles) have had no news whatever of their only son, and supposed him to be alive and well. This morning a carter brought to their housa a parcel with a tag attached "Defeated R. V. B. 9/548." The parcel contained a few personal edicts, .and letters which the trooper's mother and sister had written to him. Lacking any preparation, the receipt of the parcel with such a tag gave the parent?, especially the mother, a great shock.
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Taranaki Daily News, 9 October 1915, Page 4
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115NEWS OF SOLDIERS. Taranaki Daily News, 9 October 1915, Page 4
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