SOLDIER'S DEATH.

Auckland Star, Issue 154, 2 July 1934, Page 8

SOLDIER'S DEATH.

COLONEL A. PLUGGE. RECORD OF WAR SERVICE. One of the heroes of Anzac, Lieut.Colonel Arthur Plugge, C.M.G. (of "Plugge's Plateau"), died early yesterday morning at his home in Taupiri, at the age of 56. Born and educated in England,. Colonel Plugge came to New Zealand in 1899 as science niaster at King's College. He afterwards became principal of the Dilworth School. Soon after his arrival in New Zealand he joined the Territorial Force, in which by 1914 he had attained the rank of major in the Third Auckland Regiment. Enlisting immediately, he left with the Main Body as commander of Ist Battalion, New Zealand Infantry, and after training in Egypt he took part in repulsing the Turkish attack on the Suez Canal. He landed with the Australians and New Zea-

landers on Gallipoli, and in the desperate lighting was wounded four times. He was also mentioned in Sir lan Hamilton's dispatches "for brilliant work." While in hospital at Malta he contracted malarial fever, and was sent to England, but he returned to the peninsula, and after the evacuation ho served on the Western Front till 1318. He was decorated with the C.M.G. for his war services. On his return to New Zealand he took up farming at Taupiri. In Auckland before the war Colonel Plugge was an energetic promoter of games amongst schoolboys. He was keenly interested in Rugby, and also in tlie boy scout movement, and became Chief Scout for the North Island. He also organised the school cadet corps. Colonel Plugge married Miss Millicent Aickin, of Auckland, who survives him, with two sons and one daughter. Both sons are in the Royal Navy, Lieut. A. J. P. Plugge and Naval Cadet Roland Plugge. Miss Mary Plugge is with her mother at Taupiri. . The second son, Mr. John Plugge, was .killed. in a mid-air collision of Royal Air Force on May 1 last.