Thursday, 5 September 2024

Private Rudolph Feil, (22/8/1886- 8/8/1918). "her gallant son"

ROLL OF HONOUR.

PRIVATE R. FEIL. 

Mrs Isabel Feil, of Dunedin, has received cable advice that her husband, Private Rudolph Feil, had been killed in action in France on August 8th. Private Feil, who enlisted in Greymouth was employed in the local railway workshops. He leaves a wife and one child. Private Feil was 32 years of age. His mother resides in Wain Street, Dunedin.   -Greymouth Evening Star, 26/8/1918.


PRIVATE RUDOLPH FEIL

Mr G. J. T. Feil, Wellington, supplies further particulars with reference to the death of his brother, Private R. B. Feil, who was killed in action on the Western front on August 8th. The deceased soldier after being educated at the Kensington Public School and the Otago Boys’ High School, Dunedin, was apprenticed to Messrs A. and T. Burt, of that city, and later joined the Railway Department, being transferred to Greymouth some few years ago. He volunteered for the 26th Reinforcements, and left New Zealand in June of last year. He leaves a wife and two children, who are at present living in Auckland.  -Greymouth Evening Star, 28/8/1918.


ACKNOWLEDGMENT.

Mrs Feil, Kensington, thanks the many friends for sympathy in the loss of her gallant son Rudolph (New Zealand Rifle Brigade), who was killed in action August 8th.  -Evening Star, 9/9/1918.



Southern Cemetery, Dunedin.  DCC photo.





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