PERSONAL.
Captain Bone, Marine Superintendent of the New Zealand Shipping Company, is on a visit to New Plymouth.
Nelson reports the death of Mr. Patrick McGrath, formerly a member of the armed constabulary in the North Island, and later in the police force. He retired twelve years ago.
Mr. Kennedy Douglas Hill, who died in Auckland on Wednesday, was formerly one of the best known residents of the Waikato, where he was for many years engaged in farming. After a long illness of nearly two years, there passed away at the Palmerston North Hospital Captain George Sandham, M.C. The late officer Avas born at Lancaster, England, forty years ago, and after serving in the Boer War, for which he received the King’s medal, he came to the Dominion in 1908 and joined the Medical Corps as sergeant--major in the satne year. He was the first man of the Medical Corps to enlist Avith the N.Z.E.F., and left with the Main Body of the first Field Ambulance as staff sergeant-major. From the time of his enlistment until he returned to New Zealand for duty in 1918, Captain Sandham, except for brief leave, never left his unit, although he suffered from gas.
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Taranaki Daily News, 25 August 1922, Page 4
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200PERSONAL. Taranaki Daily News, 25 August 1922, Page 4
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