THE LATE CORPORAL EDWARDS.
if Lieut. Bosworth, who was recently Invalided back from South Africa, inIforms us that Corporal Edwards whose accidental death through . mine explosion at Zeerust was reported by cable yesterday, jomed th. Fifth Contingent at Auckland last fvenr. He was in Mr Bos worth's sec-j I*t-_on of the Contingent has proved c. smart soldier. The. Auckland Com-j pany of the Contingent was former into'" the New Zealand Battery of Artillery, to which Edwards belonged during his stay in South Africa, ancl he was stationed in Zeerust with the gar orison at the, time of his untimely fdeath. | Corporal Edwards was about ?>■ fyears Of age, a native of England, anc~ fhad been a seafaring man. He was c feood soldier, quick, and rough anc Iready, and his death will be a loss tc Ithe battery of New Zealanders.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXII, Issue 20, 24 January 1901, Page 4
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