24/140 Private William Cross Finlayson, (9/2/1886-27/9/1924). "for the empire's cause"

William Ferguson was serving with the 2nd Battalion, NZ Rifle Brigade, when he was wounded in the neck (possibly the skull) during the Battle of the Somme on September 15, 1916.  He spent about a month in hospital in England before returning to the ranks.  That return lasted until March 1917, when he went back to hospital, to a venereal ward.

Returning from there, he was drafted to the Divisional Employment Company, a reserve unit. He was discharged from the Army in September, 1919, as physically unfit for duty.  He died in the Wakari Sanatorium of tuberculosis.

FOR THE EMPIRE’S CAUSE.

DEATH. 

FINLAYSON. — On September 27, 1924, at Dunedin, 24/140 Private William Cross Finlayson, N.Z. Rifle Brigade, beloved husband of Norah Finlayson, 12 Marion street, Caversham, and youngest son of Peter and the late Jane Finlayson, 25 Bernard street, Mornington; aged 38 years. Deeply mourned. Private interment. — R. McLean and Son, undertakers.   -Otago Daily Times, 29/9/1924.

Andersons Bay Cemetery, Dunedin.