COL. HUMPHRIES' DEATH
(By Telegraph—Press Assn. —Copyright.) (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) LONDON, September 2. Lieut.-Colonel Cecil Humphries, the New Zealand football player, died of wounds. He was commanding a battalion of the Norfolk Regiment during a heavy counter-attack. He enlisted in 1914 and immediately went to France as a private. He won the D.CJSI., bar, and Military Cross. His Brigadier says: “He was without exception the bravest man I ever saw.”
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Southland Times, Issue 17876, 4 September 1918, Page 5
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