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Boer War veteran dies

PA Wellington One of the last Boer War veterans in New Zealand. Mr Bill Golding, has died in hospital in Wellington, aged 100.

English-born, he served with an English mounted yeomanry unit in South Africa, and came to New Zealand in 1903. He lived in Wellington' until 1957 when he moved 40km north to Paekakariki.

Mr Golding worked as a house decorator for most of his life and was for a time an interior decorator in Parliament Buildings. At Labour Day Week-end last month. Mr Golding was guest of honour at a cake-cutting ceremony to mark St Luke’s Church centenary. He remarried seven years ago, and is survived by his wife and daughter.

There are no surviving New Zealand veterans of the war, the first to which New Zealand sent troops.

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Press, 14 November 1981, Page 11

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Boer War veteran dies Press, 14 November 1981, Page 11

Boer War veteran dies Press, 14 November 1981, Page 11

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