“O'BRIEN.—At her residence, Lowe street, Invercargill, on Monday, June 5, 1916, Christina O'Brien, relict of Thomas O'Brien, and beloved mother of Neil, John, and the late Trooper Peter Neilson, and Mrs W. Sutton and Mrs P. Svendsen; aged 77 years (a native of Denmark).” [Evening Star, Issue 16133, 6 June 1916, Page 4 - emphasis added by NZWGT] [From family research in Ancestry.com it would appear that Peter Neilson was the son of Anders (Andrew) Christian Neilson and Christina Neilson (born Kirstine Niehen). They were both born in Denmark, and were married there in 1862. Their first three children (Neil, Anna, and Mary) were said to have been born in Denmark, and there is no mention of subsequent children in that research. In his attestation papers Peter Neilson gives his place of birth as Dunedin, New Zealand, although he may have been born in Denmark.]

“A MILITARY FUNERAL. ’The funeral, attended with full military honours, of the late Trooper Peter Nelson, of the fifth contingent, who died in the Dunedin Hospital on Tuesday last, took place on Friday. The remains were conveyed to their last resting place in the Northern Cemetery on a gun carriage provided by the B Battery, and the following volunteer companies were represented : - Dunedin Engineers, City Guards, Caversham Rifles, Wakari Rifles. Bearer Corps, and Dunedin Navals. The firing party was furnished from E Company, First Battalion, R. V. (Highland Rifles), and the Garrison Band, under Bandmaster George, were also in attendance. A number of members of the fourth and fifth contingents were present to pay their last respects, the pall bearers being selected from the latter contingent. Captain Joyce, Brigade-surgeon Lieutenant-colonel De Lautour, and Sergeant-major Taylor also look part in the ceremony. The chief mourners were Mr N. Nelson, (brother), two sisters, and the mother of the deceased. The burial service was read by the Rev. Mr Hewitson. His Worship the Mayor called on the mother of the deceased trooper to express his sympathy with her in her bereavement, which, he believed, was wide and sincere; and also to express his regret that an imperative business engagement would prevent him attending the funeral.”
“DEATH OF A RETURNED TROOPER. Trooper Peter Nelson, a member of the fifth contingent, who returned by the Tagus, died in the Dunedin Hospital at midnight on Monday. The deceased trooper came from the Bluff. Nelson had a very hard experience in the Transvaal. He was seized with malaria at Beira, pleurisy at Bulawayo, and fever at Johannesburg, and thereafter was sent home as an invalid. He had been ailing since his return to the colony. He came up to Dunedin to see about getting to a warmer part of the country, when he was seized with illness, and had to go into the hospital. He held on to life for some time, and then collapsed suddenly. His mother and sisters came up from the Bluff on Monday evening, just in time to see him before he died. Nelson, who was 23 years of age, was a man of retiring disposition, and well liked by his companions.” [Otago Witness, Issue 2482, 9 October 1901, Page 28]