KILLED IN ENGLAND.
H.Z. VETERAN OF GREAT WAR. (From Our Correspondent.) WELLINGTON, Tuesday. It is announced that Sapper Claude William Porter, of Dunedin, whose parent reside at Anderson Bay, Dunedin, and who was a well-known member of the Main Body in the Great War, is reported to have been killed in an accident in England. He enlisted at Geelong with the Australian Forces, with which he arrived in England recently.
Sapper Porter served in the Great War as a stretcher-bearer, being a member of the 15th North Auckland Company, and was popularly known as "Jerry." He won distinction at Gallipoli, where he was awarded the Military Medal, and later in France he was awarded a* bar io that decoration. A brother lost his life in tie Gnat War.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 156, 3 July 1940, Page 10
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