6/1708 Private Henry Senior 26/3/1884-31/12/1915. "one of the heroes who took part"

RETURNED SOLDIER’S DEATH

The death occurred in Dunedin Hospital this morning of Private Henry Senior, Third Reinforcements, Canterbury Battalion, who returned last week by the Tahiti, after having been four and a-half months in the trenches at Gallipoli. Deceased, who was 30 years of age, was the second son of Mr John Senior, of Brunnerton (West Coast), and before enlisting was employed as a miner in the North Brunner mine. The remains will be interred with military honors at Anderson Bay Cemetery on Sunday afternoon, the firing party including returned Anzac men. The cause of death was typhoid fever. The relatives wish to thank the nurses who attended Private Senior for their attentive and sympathetic nursing.  -Evening Star, 31/12/1915.

Henry Senior landed on Gallipoli  Peninsula on April 28th and was four long months there before his failing health took its toll. He was originally admitted to hospital with bronchitis and asthma - it seems his lungs were affected by his previous job as a coal miner.  He was invalided home on the "Tahiti" and caught typhus during the voyage. A report on December 25th, the day the ship arrive at Port Chalmers, includes the sentence "His heart is showing signs of commencing failure."

Andersons Bay Cemetery, Dunedin.