Driver Cecil Ernest Farr left with the Main and owing to the landing of horses on Gallipoli being impracticable he spent six weeks within sight of Gallipoli. Like Private Guthrie he was confined in Pont de Koubbeh Hospital, suffering firstly from enteritis and then paratyphoid. He could not speak too well of his treatment in the hospital by the sisters. Driver Fair has brought home an interesting collection of curios as mementoes of his experiences, -Otago Daily Times, 16/3/1916.
Stomach problems of varying severity — diarrhea to deadly typhoid — were common during the Gallipoli campaign but it seems unlucky that Ernest Farr, who remained aboard ship with daily access to fresh water should have contracted it. The reason for his staying aboard was that he was a driver for the artillery and the terrain of Gallipoli was too rough and vertical for horses to be any use.
He was admitted to hospital in Egypt in November, 1915, and invalided home three months later. He died of "apoplexy" which doesn't seem to be related to his illness. For many years, apoplexy was used to describe any sudden death which began with unconsciousness.
DEATH.
FARR. — On February 16, at his residence, 11 Farley street, Kaikorai, Cecil Ernest (late 2/649 N.Z.F.A.), the beloved husband of Dorothy Farr, and eldest son of Ernest and Isabella Farr, Oamaru; aged 28 years. Deeply mourned. Interment at Oamaru. — Hope and Kinaston, undertakers. -Otago Daily Times, 17/2/1921.
Oamaru Cemetery
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