FIGHTING FAMILIES.
MR. H. C. BREWER'S SONS, Private Charles Arthur Brewer, news of whose death was received by cablegram this week, was the eldest son of Mr. H. C. Brewer, of Auckland. He went right through the Boer war with the Australian Mounted Force. On the outbreak of war, in 1914, he again enlisted, and was at the taking of Rabaul, New Guinea, where he did garrison duty for over 12 months. He afterwards returned to Sydney to go with his contingent to France, but he contracted pleurisy and pneumonia, from which consumption developed, and he succumbed on September 23. Mr. Brewer's second son was invalided out of the Canadian Army after 18 months' service. His youngest son, who left here with the tenth reinforcements, is still on active service in France.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16657, 29 September 1917, Page 8
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