Edmund McIntosh worked as a saddler in Caversham before the Boer War and it was as a saddler that he volunteered for the10th Contingent. He served for 127 days before being discharged at the end of the conflict having suffered bronchitis, laryngitis and anaemia while on the troopship returning home.
Edmund enlisted again for the next war in 1914, rising to the rank of sergeant Saddler in the Otago Mounted Rifles. In September 1915 he was reported sick and sent to England, being invalided home to New Zealand in 1916. He died in Dunedin Hospital of "heart trouble."
MILITARY FUNERAL.
The friends of THOMAS and MARY McINTOSH (and Family) are respectfully invited to attend the funeral of their late son, SERGEANT EDMUND McINTOSH, which will leave their residence, 3 Peter street, Caversham, TO-MORROW (TUESDAY), the 6th inst., at 2 p.m. for the Southern Cemetery.
HOPE and KINASTON, Military funeral directors, 36 St. Andrew street. -Otago Daily Times, 5/1/1920.
Southern Cemetery, Dunedin. DCC photo.
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