OBITUARY

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20630, 11 August 1941, Page 6

OBITUARY

MAJOR E. HARROWELL A veteran of two wars, Major Edwin Harrowell, formerly of the Colonial Pacific Service, has died in Auckland. Seventy-four years of age, he was born and educated in England. Coming to New Zealand in 1900, Major Harrowell took up farming. Later he went to Queensland, where he joined the Mounted Constabulary at Roma. Volunteering for service in the South African war after his return to New Zealand, he left with the first contingent as a sergeant and returned with the rank of captain. He later went to the New Hebrides. Shortly before the last war, he returned to New Zealand, and left with the Main Body. Promoted to the rank of major, he served on Gallipoli, where he was wounded. He was invalided to England, and later to New Zealand. Upon his recovery. Major Harrowell again entered the Colonial Service. MAJOR L. O’BRIEN The death is recorded of Major Lucius O’Brien, aged 77, Grafton, who for many years was associated with the armed forces in New Zealand. The son of an Imperial soldier, Major O’Brien was born in military barracks in New Plymouth during the Maori Wars, In 1902 he left for the South African War with the rank of major, as officer commanding the North Island Battalion of the 9th Contingent. He returned to New Zealand after the war, but a few years later went back to South Africa and became an auditor in Pretoria. During the last war he held an administrative post in South Africa, and on his retirement from business about 14 years ago he returned to the Dominion. He was married in 1900 to Miss Rosina Williamson, and he is survived by his wile and three sons, one of whom is serving in Canada with the Royal New Zealand Air Force. The death occurred at the Mater Hospital, Auckland, of the Rev. Father Joachim Dardel, aged 71. Born in France, his desire for the life of a missionary led him to join the Missionaries of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary, or Picptls Fathers as they are commonly called, the same society of which Father Damien, the pioneer leper missionary of Molokai was a member. In 1894 the Catholic Cook Islands Mission was established by Rome and the Picpus Fathers at Tahiti were asked to take charge of it. Shortly alter his ordination Father Dardel went to Rarotonga, and for the past 41 years had worked on that mission.