OBITUARY
MR F. ROBERTSON (United Press Association) NAPIER, April 22. News received in Napier today recorded the death near Madrid of Mr Frederick Robertson, at one time a hospital employee and caretaker of the aerodrome at Napier. Deceased was a sea-faring man and had tried his hand at all sorts of occupations in many lands. He was born in Egypt, but at the time of the Napier earthquake he was at the Napier hospital, where he earned high praise for work done immediately following that tragic disaster. He left Napier a year ago for England, where his father lived. From there he went to help the loyalist forces in Spain, being badly wounded on February 15 last during a counterattack against General Francisco Franco’s men. He was left on the battlefield when the defenders of Madrid retired, and it is reported that he was later slain when the rebels refused to take prisoners. A few weeks ago advice was received here that his father had died leaving him a fair sum of money and seeking his address.
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Southland Times, Issue 23181, 23 April 1937, Page 8
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177OBITUARY Southland Times, Issue 23181, 23 April 1937, Page 8
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