PRIVATE McCUNN'S BURIAL.
A good soldier is to be buried with military honors to-morrow afternoon, the procession moving from the Dunedin Hospital to the Anderson Bay Cemetery. The deceased, Private Alexander Douglas McCunn belonged to Beaumont. He enlisted in the Tenth Reinforcements; was wounded in the spine in July, 1916; came back, invalided, a little over a year ago; and, after much suffering, patiently endured, he died yesterday at the Hospital. The burial service will be conducted by the Rev. R. Scott Allan. Captain Myers is to represent the headquarters staff. The returned soldiers are likely to attend in numbers. The Women's Patriotic Association, in accordance with their custom, are sending a wreath, and there will be other wreaths from the patients in the Batchelor ward and from the Returned Soldiers' Association. -Evening Star, 19/10/1918.
Alexander McCunn was not wounded in the spine in 1917. He suffered a shrapnel wound to the head after being buried in a shell explosion and spent some time in hospital before rejoining his unit. He then began to experience pain in his neck and was diagnosed with a tubercular spinal condition. He was struck off the roll as medically unfit and invalided home in April, 1917. He died in Dunedin Hospital of tubercular meningitis.
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