SOLDIER FOUND IN SCRUB.
DEAD WITH RIFLE BESIDE HIM
[lit TELEGRAPH.—PRESS ASSOCIATION.]
WELLINGTON. Monday. THE body of 8/2352, Private Henry Eric Walter, a member of the Otago Infantry Battalion, who left New Zealand with the fourth reinforcements, was found in the scrub at Mangaroa. Alongside the body was a rifle with a discharged cartridge in the breech. Walter had been missing for about six months. His relatives reside in England.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LV, Issue 16825, 16 April 1918, Page 4
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70SOLDIER FOUND IN SCRUB. New Zealand Herald, Volume LV, Issue 16825, 16 April 1918, Page 4
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