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DUNEDIN SOLD1ER TURNS UP. IVALKS INTO HOME UN ANNOUNCED.
DLAED1A, ilns dav. To sce liis son. whom he helieved to have been killed in the war, walk into liis Tiome, after an ab sonce of 18 years, was tlie araazing cxpcrience of Jolm Tohill, of Surrey street, last week. Tliis son, Patrick, was last seen by his parents in 1911, in Canterbury. Upon the outhreak of war lus four brothcrs joined up, tlirce being killed. Patrick was debarred by liis youth, even two years after the war started, but under an assumed name iic mauagcd to get away with a Canterbury unit. He was wounded iu France and sulfered also from gas and sJiell sliock, and his injuries were sucli as to cause l'requent lapses of memory. As a result he wandcred aimlessly a>round tho world. As his parents wero unaware of his assumed name, all efforts to trace hiin wero unavailing and he was assumed to be dead.
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Volume 58, Issue 259, 3 December 1929, Page 7
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