Obituary

Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30535, 2 September 1964, Page 18

Obituary

Mr R. H. Livingstone Mr Robert Heaton Livingstone, who was earlier well known as a. sportsman, Army officer, and lawyer, died in Christchurch on Monday. As a primary schoolboy, Mr Livingstone was a prominent athlete and won junior national championships. He went to . the Christchurch Boys’ High School where he played in the backs of the first XV for several years. This enthusiasm for Rugby continued at Canterbury University College where he was a member of a notable team from 1911 to 1914. Enlisting in the Main Body of the Ist N.Z.E.F., Mr Livingstone was in the Gallipoli landing. He was wounded and invalided back to New Zealand. But Mr Livingstone later went to Britain, served in a training depot in Ireland and was then commissioned in the South Stafford Regiment. He was a staff officer of the 4th Army in France and was wounded on the Somme. For war service he received the 0.8. E. On his return to Christchurch, Mr Livingstone completed his law degree and for many years conducted the conveyancing side of the practices of Livingstone and Burns, Livingstone and Hensley, and Livingstone and Drake. He retired about 10 years ago. In the Second World War he was a staff officer of the fortress command in Canterbury.