THE ROLL OF HONOUR
LANCE-CORPORAL A. T. REED.
Lance-corporal Albert Thomas Reid, wounded on October 30, is 21 years of age, and is a son of Mr and Mrs T. Reid, of Lumsden. After leaving the Lumsden school, Lance-corporal Reid followed the painting trade, in which he was engaged when he left in the Rifle Brigade of the Ninth. He was well and favourably known throughout the district and was a keen follower of Rugby football. -Southland Times, 20/11/1916.
DEATHS
REID — At Cashmere Sanatorium, February 28, 1922, Albert Thomas, dearly beloved son of Thomas and Johanna Reid, of Lumsden; aged 26 years. The funeral will leave his parents’ residence at 2.30 p.m. on Friday, 3rd March, for the Lumsden Cemetery. Friends please accept this (the only) intimation. -Southland Times, 1/3/1922.
Albert Reid's cause of death, according to his army record, is "chronic pulmonary tuberculosis and asphyxia from pulmonary haemorrhage." In other words, at the sanatorium, Albert drowned in his own blood due to bleeding into his lungs, after suffering from tuberculosis for some time.
THE Members of the Loyal Lumsden Lodge,I.O.O.F., M.U., are requested to meet at the Lodge Room at 2 p.m. on Friday, the 3rd inst., to follow the remains of our late Brother, Albert Thomas Reid, to the Lumsden Cemetery. Funeral regalia. — By order of the N.G. S. E. GRIFFITHS, Secretary. -Southland Times, 1/3/1922.
Lumsden Cemetery.
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