VETERAN’S DEATH
> REAR-ADMIRAL BURIED AT SEA. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) (Received This Day, 11.30 a.m.) LONDON, July 10. With full honours an urn containing the ashes of the 67-year-old Surgeon Rear-Admiral J. R. Muir was committed to the sea from a destroyer. RearAdmiral Muir whose body was recovered from the sea last weekend, had been serving, as a lieutenant of the R.N.V.R.. on his Majesty’s yacht Campeador V. which was sunk by a mine on June 24, and all hands lost.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 July 1940, Page 6
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80VETERAN’S DEATH Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 July 1940, Page 6
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