FIGHTING FAMILIES.
TWO BROTHERS FALLEN.
Op the family of Mr. John Clark, of Lee Street, Parnell, three eons have gone to the front, and two have given their lives for the Empire. The eldest son, Eric H. Clark, was killed at Gallipoli, and lately news was received that Private J. B. Clark bad been killed in action in France. Private J. B. Clark is a native of Hamilton, and was educated at Mount Eden school. Prior to his enlistment, which took place before he was 20 years of age, he was employed in the Auckland City Treasury Department. At school ho was an enthusiastic cadet, and later an active territorial, He went to France in the general transfer of New Zealanders from Egypt, and served in the machine-gun section of the Auckland battalion. In the early part of the Somme advance he was reported slightly wounded. Private Clark is the first member of the City Council's staff to be killed in action. The third brother, Percy P. Clark, is in the artilj lery "somewhere in France."
One gon and two stepsons of Mr. C. Gabb, of Ponsonby, are in the fighting forces— and George Dryland, already in France, and Thomas A. H. Gabb, now on the water. Another stepson, Walter Dryland, has enlisted for a later reinforcement
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16468, 19 February 1917, Page 8
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