DEATH OF A BRAVE OFFICER.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Issue 1493, 5 December 1918, Page 9

DEATH OF A BRAVE OFFICER.

The late Major Clyde McGilp’ D. 5.0., whose portrait appears on our “Clubman” page, was one of the most efficient and popular young officers who sailed from these shores for Europe, having enlisted for active service immediately on the outbreak of war. He had already served in the South African War, and, being a capable artillery officer, with many years’ territorial training to his credit, he was given command of the First Battery, N.Z.F.A. with the Main Body of the Expeditionary Force. After taking an active part in the costly Gallipoli campaign, Major McGilp saw continuous service in France with the New Zealanders, where he was awarded the D.S.O. for conspicuous bravery and gallant conduct. He returned to the Dominion last May in consequence of ill health, and since then up to the time of his death at Featherston about the middle of last month from pneumonia rendered further valuable assistance to the Dominion’s proud army as an instructor and lecturer. His death, coming so unexpectedly after his many hair-breadth escapes at Gallipoli and in France, not to mention South Africa, was sad beyond the extreme, especially as he was the last of the Main Body battery commanders, a young man who had risen high in his career as a soldier by sheer grit and unswerving devotion to duty and whose prospects in the future were of a most promising order. He was chief field artillery instructor at Featherston Camp at the time of his death. When in’ Egypt, Major McGilp, who was a son of Mr. and Mrs. A. McGilp, of Birkenhead, Auckland, married a daughter of the Chevalier D’Aquilina, who came to New Zealand and was at Featherston with her husband at the time of his death.