Ernest Meenan was a fisherman when he joined the Army late in the war. He left New Zealand in February 1918 was with the Otago Regiment in France for the German Spring Offensive and then the driving back of the enemy through France. On October 8th he was seriously wounded, with "penetrating wounds" to the scrotum, urethra and rectum. This was during an attack on a strong German position with uncut wire and machine guns behind fortifications.
He was treated at the military hospital at Walton-on-Thames, London. At the end of 1918 he was sent home on the Hospital Ship Marama.
Ernest died of his wounds, the actual cause of death being listed as "spinal paraplegia."
DEATH.
MEENAN — On August 6, at Dunedin Hospital (died of wounds), Ernest Percival, beloved second son of Francis and Annie Meenan, 153 Leith street; in his twentyseventh year. R.I.P. -Otago Witness, 10/8/1920.
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