SON RETURNS FROM DEAD

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 836, 3 December 1929, Page 1

SON RETURNS FROM DEAD

Man’s Amazing Wanderings

BELIEVED KILLED IN THE WAR

, Press Association DUNEDIN, Today. TO see his son, whom he had believed to have been killed in the war, walk into his home after an absence of 18 years, was the amazing experience of Mr. John Tohill, of Surrey Street, Caversham, last week. This son, Patrick, was last seen by his parents in 1911 in Canterbury.

Upon the outbreak of war his four brothers joined up, three of them being killed. Patrick was debarred by youth even two years after the war started, but under an assumed name he managed to get away with the Canterbury unit. He was wounded in France, also suffering from gas and

shell-shock and his injuries were such as to cause frequent lapses of memory. As a result he wandered aimlessly around the world. As his parents were unaware of his assumed name all efforts to trace him were unavailing, and it was assumed that he was dead.