DEATH OF CANDIDATE.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 269, 13 November 1928, Page 7

DEATH OF CANDIDATE.

UNUSUAL POSITION.

(Received 11.30 a.m.)

MELBOURNE, this day,

Major-General Forsyth, one of the Nationalist candidates for the Senate, died last evening after a brief illness of pneumonia following influenza. Hb was 61 years of age. A difficulty arjees in connection with the election papers, on which his name was printed and instructions are to be given the returning officers to delete it, as only two Government candidates remain for the three vacant seats. Labour is assured of one.

-Major-General John Keatly Forsyth was born at Brisbane in 1867, being the son of a builder. He was educated at the Fortitude Valley School, and at the Normal School, Brisbane. He then joined the headquarters staff of the Queensland Defence Forces, as lieutenant. At the outbreak of the war he took the Ist Light Horse Brigade to Egypt, and there he was given the command of the 4th Light Horse Regiment. After the evacuation of Gallipoli he commanded a brigade in Egypt and Franee, where he was injured. After the war he was commandant of the South Australian Military District, and then he was appointed QuartermasterGeneral to the Central Administrative Quarter, and a member of the Military Board. He retired in 1922 with the rank of major-general.