Deaths. — It is with much regret that I have to report the death of three more of our boys at the front. The names of those killed are James Templeton (Albertown), Robert Girwood (Albertown), and James Anderson (Pembroke). All three young men were well known and very highly esteemed by all who knew them in the district, and all had been at the front for a considerable time. On last Sunday and the Sunday previous memorial services were held at Albertown and Pembroke respectively. At Albertown the schoolhouse could not accommodate the friends assembled, and the service had to be conducted in the open air. The Rev. John Ryley, who conducted the services, referred in glowing terms to the past lives of the young men who had voluntarily given their services, and finally their lives, for their King and country, and for the cause which they believed to be just and right. The preacher said he was proud to have known the lads, and to call them his friends. Last Sunday at Pembroke the church was well filled, and the preacher gave a long .account of "Jim" Anderson's life, and held him up as a model young man, never absent from the services if able to attend, and always in his place in the choir. He and his mother had been a member of the choir ever since its beginning. During an interval the choir sang, "Our missing treasures," and at the close of the service the organist played "The Dead March." The sympathy of all is extended to the bereaved ones. -Otago Witness, 23/10/1918.
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