“OLD CONTEMPTIBLE” DIES
VARIED MILITARY SERVICE (By Telegraph.—rre-a Association) DUNEDIN. Thursday Mr John Reid (58), who died following a fall from a ladder at the Hillside Workshops, was born In Glasgow and joined the 2nd Battalion Queen’s Own Cameron Highlanders in 1898. lie served at Aldershot, Gibraltar, Malta. Crete. Africa. India and during Ihe Great War. As one of the “Old Contemplibles” wMh his regiment he was among Ihe first of the British troops to go to France at the outbreak of war. Ho was wounded after the Retreat from Mons and taken prisoner in November. 1914, and spent the remainder of the war period in Germany. He came to Dunedin in 1925.
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Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20739, 24 February 1939, Page 11
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113“OLD CONTEMPTIBLE” DIES Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20739, 24 February 1939, Page 11
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