A GALLANT SOLDIER
DIES UNDER ANAESTHETIC.
SUVA, (Fiji) May 28.
To go through years of bloody war, to lie three times wounded, to win the Military Medal, and be recommended for a commission and the Y.C. and to finally meet liis end through a_ little needle becoming embedded in his hand was the fate of Regimental SergeantMajor Albert Edward Bloor, who died under an anaesthetic in the Colonial Hospital,' Suva, this morning. Tn brushing his hand yesterday over a wall a needle found him and broke off in his hand, and the doctor advised an operation. To-day the most popular young man in Fiji is dead,' and this afternoon he was accorded a military funeral, while the public attendance was the largest seen hero for years. He was looked upon as the best bomber in the King’s Royal Rifles, and on one occasion in Frit nee made’ a sortie successfully,' and on the return, finding two of his comrades had been left behind wounded, rushed out and brought both hack to safety. The commandant says lie was “a most efficient and gallant soldier loved by all.”
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Hokitika Guardian, 16 June 1920, Page 3
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