EX-SOLDIER’S DEATH.
Per Press Association. MASTERTON, Nov. 19. A single man named George Henry Sydney Sydenham Engall, aged 44, of Totara Flats, and resident on Te Wharau Road, was found yesterday outside his motor shed in an unconscious condition, with a pea rifle wound in the forehead and a rifle lying along side the body. . He expired half an hour later. Deceased was a soldier settler. He was a member of the Main Body of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force and served throyghout the war, seeing service at Gallipoli and in France. At the inquest a verdict that deceased died from a pea rifle wound, self-inflicted while of unsound mine, was returned.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVIII, Issue 303, 20 November 1928, Page 10
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112EX-SOLDIER’S DEATH. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVIII, Issue 303, 20 November 1928, Page 10
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