EX-SOLDIER’S IDENTITY
MINISTERIAL ACTION.
(Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, April 27. The latest, and what will probably prove the final phase of the strange case of George Thomas McQuay, the unknown soldier inmate of Callan Park Hospital, Sydney (the establishment of whose identity is reported), was announced by the Attorney-Gen-eral and Minister of Defence (Hon. F. J. Rolleston) to-day. “The Government,” said the Minister, “has considered the case of McQuay, and as there appeaa’s to be no doubt as to the identification, the Government has agreed to accept him for treatmeiit as a war service patient. Accordingly it has been arranged with the Commonwealth authorities for his return to New Zealand at an early date.” McQuay, a son of Mrs. Robert McQuay, of Orlands Street, Stratford, was a member of the N.Z. Expeditionary Force, and for eleven years he has been a' patient in Callan Park Hospital, under the name of “George Brown.” \
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Greymouth Evening Star, 28 April 1928, Page 2
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