N.Z. SOLDIER RETURNS HOME.
[THE PBESS Special Service.] WELLINGTON, May 22. The New Zealand soldier George Thomas McQuay, whose identity was but recently established, returned to New Zealand to-day by the Maunganui from Sydney. His mother was with him and naturally expressed great joy at the finding of her son and being able to bring him back with her to New Zealand. . ~ McQuay's case is one of the tragedies of the Great War. He was found wandering about the streets of I»ndon in civilian clothes, being ultimately repatriated to Australia. Nothing could be ascertained about his antecedents and for eleven years he was receiving treatment in Sydney under the name of George Brown. Recently, however, his identity was established beyond doubt and his mother, Mrs Robert McQuay, of Stratford, has been re-united to her son, who long ago was given up as lost.
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Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 19317, 23 May 1928, Page 6
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