ROLL OF HONOUR

Otago Witness, Issue 3215, 27 October 1915, Page 51

ROLL OF HONOUR

FUNERAL OF TWO OTAGO SOLDIERS* . LONDON, September 10 Trooper liobon- M ‘Donald. v died of wounds on Bqrtomber 6 in Kn - *eorge's HospiV.tl. 'Vas buried ' strr afternoon at Nmibead Cemetery. fhe IJ Commissioner rook a great interest in < • patient, and visited ’aim on Sunday in ;r pany with Mr R. D. L. M’.Ueari and J Mackenzie. M'Donald was then in a grave condition. Mr Mackenzie attorn, the funeral, and the Ladies’ Committee oi the War Contingent Association sent a beautiful wreath. The first New Zealand soldier to die in Birmingham was buried at Lodge Hill Cemetery on September 7. Hb was Private P. S. Johnson (8/231), Otago. The service was conducted by Mr Reid, the Presbyterian chaplain. The coffin, which was covered with the Union Jack, was born© to the grave by orderlies of the Army Medical Corps, and the ’“Last Post” was sounded. The High Commissioner for Now Zealand was represented by Mr M. Muir, late of Dunedin, who, with Mrs Muir, has been in constant attendance at the military hospitals in Birmingham, visiting the wounded and supplying Qiem with anything necesThe question of suitably marking the last resting-place of New Zealanders who die in this country, and who have no family connections hero, is one that "will bo considered by the War Contingent Association at an early date. The death is reported from Franco of Lance-corporal J. M‘Lean-Muir, 2nd King’ Edward’s Horse.