ANZAC VETERAN

Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 236, 3 July 1934, Page 10

ANZAC VETERAN

Lieutenant-Colonel Arthur Plugge, C.M.G., Dead OUTSTANDING SERVICES Tlie death occurred yesterday of Lieutenant-Colonel Arthur Plugge, C.M.G., at his residence in Taupiri, says a Special Service message. Born in Hull in 1878, Colonel Plugge was the youngest son of Mr. J. P. Plugge. He was educated at Elmfleld College, York, the grammar school at Dewsbury, and Leeds University. Entering the teaching profession, he became science master under the Rev. W. Johnson at Archbishop Holgate’s school, York. In 1899 he came to New Zealand to take the post of science master at King’s College, Auckland. Later he became headmaster of Dilworth School. Always interested in military affairs, Colonel Plugge joined the territorial force soon after his arrival in New Zealand, and at the commencement of the Great War in 1914 he held the rank of major in the Third Auckland Regiment He left New Zealand for Egypt with the Main Body in command of the First Battalion, New Zealand Infantry Battalion, and first saw active service when it took part in repulsing a Turkish attack on the Suez Canal. Colonel Plugge was at the' landing at Gallipoli, and was later wounded. For his work on Gallipoli he received the commendation of his superior officers, being mentioned in Sir lan Hamilton’s dispatches “for brilliant work.” While in hospital at Malta he contracted Mediterranean fever, and was invalided to England, where he revisited his native city of Hull. * Colonel Plugge returned for a short period to Gallipoli, but was later transferred to France, where he remained until 1918. On his return to New Zealand he took up his residence at Taupiri, where he was engaged in dairying. He received his C.M.G. in 1915. Throughout his life Colonel Plugge took a keen interest in sport. Before leaving England he was prominently connected with Rugby football in Hull, and until the time of his death was active in promoting sport, especially among schoolboys. Among his other activities he was keenly interested in the organising of school cadet corps and the boy scout movement in the North Island, becoming chief scout. Colonel Plugge ie survived by his wife, formerly Miss Millicent Aickin, daughter of the late Mr. Graves Aickin, of Auckland, one daughter, and two sons. The eldest son is Lieutenant A. J. P. Plugge, of the Royal Navy, and the youngest. Mr. Roland Plugge, is a naval cadet in England. His second son, Mr. John Plugge, was killed on May 1, 1934. in an aeroplane disaster in England, when a machine in which he was a passenger collided in midair with, another aeroplane, the four occupants of the two machines being killed. Dr. F. W. Ward Private advice of the death of Dr. Frederick William Ward,' LL.D., formerly a Wesleyan minister and a wellknown Australian journalist, in his eighty-eighth year, was received in Wellington yesterday. . Dr. Ward, who was born in New Zealand in 1847, left the ministry to enter journalism, and wasi editor of the Sydney “Daily Telegraph” from 1885 to 1890, when he resigned and went to London. For some time he was editor of the Brisbane “Courier,” and then became associate editor of the Melbourne “Argus.” Dr. Ward resumed the “Daily Telegraph” editorship in 1903, and retained the position until 1913, returning to Brisbane in 1917, when he took up the editorship of the “Telegraph” until his retirement in 1920. His degree of doctor of laws was taken at the University of New South Wales. He is survived by two sons, both of whom have distinguished themselves. Dr. Leonard Keith Ward, the elder son, has been Government geologist of South Australia since 1911, and is a past president of the Royal Society of South Australia and of the Royal Geographical Society of Australia, South Australian branch. The other son, Dr. Hugh Kingsley Ward, was Rhodes Scholar for New South Wales in 1911, won the Military Cross in the Great War, and held a Rockefeller research scholarship in 1923. He is at present engaged in the Department of Bacteriology at Harvard University. Mr. J. F. O’Sullivan The death of Mr. James F. O'Sullivan, a well-known figure in the Rugby football world, occurred in Wellington at' the week-end. From 1905 to 1910, Mr. O’Sullivan was almost continuously a member of the Wellington Rugby Union’s management committee. At one time, too, he was actively interested in the game in Marlborough, and for years was a Marlborough delegate to the. New Zealand Rugby Union. His interest in football never waned, and in later years, having taken up refereeing, he held the office of secretary of the Wellington Rugby Referees’ Association. His death followed a brief illness. Mr. O’Sullivan, who was born in Blenheim 62 years ago, is survived by four sons and three daughters—Mesdames Parkinson, Opotiki, and Cartmell, Lower Hutt, Miss Annie O’Sullivan, and Messrs. Hugh, Creagh, Albert, and Arthur O’Sullivan, Wellington. The funeral takes place this morning. Mr. William Tucker The death is reported from Carterton of Mr. William Tucker, at the age of 48 years. Mr. Tucker, who was born in Carterton, was in business as a bookseller and stationer. He was associated with the Fire Brigade for some years. He was a member of the Carterton Borough Council, the Carterton Schoo! Committee, St. Mark’s Church Vestry, and tlie Foresters’ Lodge. He is survived by a widow, one brother, and one sister.