OBITUARY
LIEUT-COL. SOMMERVILLE. The death has occurred in Auckland of Lieutenant-Colonel Clive Sommerville, D. 5.0., late of Dannevirke, a senior officer of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force in the ’ast war. Lieutenant-Colonel Sommerville, who was 62, was born in Wellington and as a young man took up farming. As an officer in the Wellington Mounted Riffes he was accepted for service in March. 1915, with the rank of captain. Later he transferred to the artillery, commanding the 12th Battery in France, and eventually the 2nd Artillery Brigade. He was three times mentioned in dispatches and was awarded the D.S.O. in 1919.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 87, Issue 202, 27 August 1943, Page 2
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101OBITUARY Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 87, Issue 202, 27 August 1943, Page 2
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