GALLANT PADRE'S DEATH,

Auckland Star, Volume XLIX, Issue 167, 15 July 1918, Page 2

GALLANT PADRE'S DEATH,

IHE SEV. PATRICK BOEIL The death took place at the Matei Miseneordiae private hospital, at 11.30 o clock this morning, of the Rev. Fathe* Patrick Dore, one of the chaplain heroes of the Gallipoli Peninsula. Born in Newcastle West, County Limerick, Ireland, thirty-three years ago, he was educated - at Kilkenny College, where he was ordained eight years ago last 3ilay. Arriving in New Zealand in 1910, he' was first stationed in a curacy at Palmerston Xorth, where he -worked for a year before being given the charge of the Kaikoura parish. Two years later Fathei Dore was transferred to the charpre oi Foxton parish, and while there he volunteered as a chaplain to 'the forces, and left with the New Zealand Main Body in October, 1914. He landed with the first troops at Gallipoli in April of the following year, and for his noble work in the field attending to the wounded won tiie wannest regard of the troops generally, while his gallant devotion to duty gained him the Military Cross, bestowed for "exceptional bravery and devotion to his duty under tire."' While he was attending to the wounded in the heavy [fighting of August- 9, 1015, a bullet struck iiim in' the spine, causing partial para3ysis, and from the effects of which he never recovered. The gallant Padre was invalided to England, and later came •back to New Zealand, bein<r for some time in Lowry Bay Hospital, Wellington, last January Father Dore went back to Poxton to assist Father Forrestan, and a few weeks aso arrived in Auckland to ■undergo an operation at the Mater Misericordiae Hospital for the removal of the pressure that was on the spine, and which had caused him intense agony ever since he was wounded. The operation was apparently successful, but complications suddenly set in, and he passed away this morning. A requiem mass will bo celebrated at 10 o'clock to-morrow jnorning at St. Patrick's Cathedral.