"Roll of Honour. The late Pte. G. Fox.

News was received yesterday of the death of Private George Fox, who was reported killed in France. 

The news will come as a shock to those who knew him always extended to him the respect and esteem of which he was worthy, and his loss will be keenly felt, even outside the circle of his sorrowing relatives.

His youth was bound up in this town. He was a keen sport, and for many years local Rugby football was not considered at its highest pitch unless he was a member of the working combination. The spirit which he displayed on the field of sport was carried to more vital fields, and his many friends took it as a matter of course when he donned the khaki and moved out to do his bit for his country.

A wave of sympathy will go out to his sorrowing mother and other relatives, who had already felt the weight of war through the loss of another son. But without knowing the details it will be quite safe to say that the late George Fox played a man's part in the Empire's battles. His loss is one that we, who knew him, deeply deplore, but we could never cease to admire the qualities which led him to risk the supreme sacrifice in a place where men readily give their lives for their friends, making light of their own burdens. He was truly one of these men." source: a Hawke's Bay newspaper, June 1917.

He was truly one of these men."

Glenn Reddiex