6/1708 Trooper Henry Senior, (26/3/1884-31/12/1915). "typhoid fever"

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.

ACKNOWLEDGMENT.

Mr John Senior and family, of Blackball, Westport, desire to thank the citizens of Dunedin for their kind expressions of sympathy, also the medical staff and nurses of Dunedin Hospital for kind attention to the late Trooper Henry Senior.  -Evening Star, 5/1/1916.

Andersons Bay Cemetery, Dunedin.