WAR HEROES TRAGIC END
1-oUND IN ROOM SMELLING OF GAS By Telegraph—Press Association. Waimate, Aug. 14. John Emmerson, a billiard marker, was found dead in a room smelling 01 gas. It is -understood that he left a Fetter stating his intention to take liis life., . . Emmerson distinguished himself in th© war and was mentioned in dispatches for bravery at Messines,' where he lost an arm. Considerable space is devoted to the incident in General Young’s book* “New Zealanders at the Front.”
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Taranaki Daily News, 15 August 1929, Page 6
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