70654 Private Sidney Gordon Pilling, (24/7/1897-31/12/1922). "junior and senior scholarships"

FOR THE EMPIRE’S CAUSE.

DEATHS. 

PILLING. — On December 31, 1922, at Pleasant Valley, Sidney Gordon Pilling (70654, 36th Reinforcements, N.Z.E.F.), beloved son of E. and M. Pilling, Mosgiel, and only brother of the late Lieutenant E. G. Pilling, Otago Battalion, N.Z.E.F.; aged 25 years. 

“Greater love hath no man.”  -Otago Witness, 9/1/1923.

Mr Sidney G. Pilling, a returned soldier and fourth-year medical student, whose death occurred recently at Pleasant Valley after a long illness, was the younger son of Mr K. Pilling, of Mosgiel, whose other son fell in the war. He was an old High School boy, and held in turn the Education Board’s junior and senior scholarships, and the University junior scholarship. He entered upon his medical course in Otago University in 1916, but enlisted with the 36th Reinforcements on coming of military age in 1917. He was 25 years of age at the time of his death, which was due to pulmonary tuberculosis, contracted since his return from active service.  -Otago Daily Times, 3/2/1923.

Andersons Bay Cemetery.