OBITUARY.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 58, Issue 86, 21 January 1938, Page 4

OBITUARY.

MAJOR RAYMOND LAWRY, (Per Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. The death occurred at Mount Pleasant yesterday of Major Raymond Alexander Reid 'Lawry, of Kenya Colony, at the age of 46 years. Mr Lawry suffered a serious illness at the beginning of last year and returned to New Zealand in October for rest and treatment. He expected to leave again for Kenya Colony in March, but died yesterday of a sudden heart attack. Mr Lawry, the second son of the late Rev. Samuel and Mrs Lawry, was born in Ashburton in 1891. He lived in various parts of the Dominion, at Auckland, Palmerston North, and Christchurch. He was educated at the Christchurch Boys’ High School,, and on leaving school joined the staff of Mr J. A. Flesher, a barrister and solicitor, until the outbreak of the Great War. Mr Lawry studied law at Canterbury University College. He enlisted in the main body as a second lieutenant and at the end of tho war had risen to the rank of major. He was wounded twice at Gallipoli, the second time fairly seriously, the injuries causing his return to England, wiiere he was for some time adjutant at Sling Camp on Salisbury Plain. He was appointed a staff major in 1917, and served for several months in a base camp at Rouen, France. In 1918 he was created an Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire. At the end of the war he had a great deal to do with the repatriation of the men, returning himself to the Dominion in January 1920. He completed his law studies and took the L.L.B. degree. Two years later he left New Zealand for British East Africa, Kenya Colony, where he took up farming, visiting the Dominion again on holiday in 1927. During the last six years in Kenya Colony he had been Town Clerk of Nakuru, and had placed his farm under management. He was recently appointed to this office for a further term.

Mr Lawry was a brother of Mr H. P Lawry, S.M., of Wellington, and df Mr W. Melville Lawry, of Christchurch. There are two sisters, Mrs L. J. Berry, of Wellington, and Mrs A. F. McArthur, of Greenstreet.