The remains of Private Mason Charles Edwards were buried with military honours on Saturday afternoon in the Anderson's Bay Cemetery. Private Edwards was exceedingly popular with everyone who know him, and was a particularly well-mannered young man. He went away with the Seventh Reinforcements, and, after serving for four years, was slightly gassed, and then suffered from shell-shock. He returned to New Zealand in March, and had then apparently recovered his health. Soon afterwards, however, he developed pneumonia, and after being three weeks in the Hospital meningitis set in, and it was from this he died. Private Edwards was a son of Mr and Mrs J. Edwards, of Begg street, Musselburgh. -Otago Witness, 13/8/1919.
Andersons Bay Cemetery, Dunedin.
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