O'CONNOR Richard Hensleigh
10/2261, Private, 1st Battalion. Wellington Regiment, N.Z.E.F
NOTICE FROM AUCKLAND WEEKLY NEWS 16 NOVEMBER 1916
O'CONNOR, Dick -"Poor old Dick O'Connor of the Waitemata Troop, has been killed in action" writes a member in France. "He was a sniper and did valuable work. He had to run great risks, of course, and I suppose they got him at last. He was a good mate and a 'white' man. I ran across him first in London some years ago and we shipped together several times and carried Matilda (swag) a bit in the bush at times. He was in the Cape Mounted Rifles for some while. He was a son of Mr. Justice O'CONNOR of Sydney and a born wanderer. We have lost a lot of legionaries since starting but they all died game and met death as joyously as they lived. The Legion will send us other good men to take their places." [From the Legion of Frontiersmen column, AWN 16.11.1916]
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Born
Died 3 July 1916, France
Buried at Cite Bonjean Military Cemetery, Armentieres
East Africa 1915 - 1917
