DEATH ON SERVICE
MEMBER OF NEW ZEALAND FORESTRY UNIT. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) NEW PLYMOUTH, This Day. Advice has been received at New Plymouth of the death, on active service in England, of Sapper Oswald J. Jans, a member of the Forestry Detachment of the Second Echelon of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force. Sapper Jans, who was aged 47, was unmarried. He is the second son of the late Mr and Mrs O. Jans, formerly well-known residents of the Stratford and Oakura districts. Sapper Jans also lived for some time at Oakura and Okato, but for the past ten years had lived in the King Country, where he engaged in contracting. Sapper Jans saw three years’ service in the last war. He enlisted from Taumarunui.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 September 1940, Page 4
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124DEATH ON SERVICE Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 September 1940, Page 4
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