"MILITARY FUNERAL TO-MORROW. A returned soldier named Walter John Clarke, an inmate of the hospital annexe, died yesterday. The late soldier left with the Ninth Reinforcement, and when at Albany a man fell overboard, deceased immediately dived in, and rescued him. In so doing, he injured himself internally, and an operation was found necessary upon his arrival in Egypt. He was invalided back to New Zealand, and has been under medical treatment at intervals ever since. His brother, Mr. W. H. Clarke, resides in Bond Street, Grey Lynn. A military funeral will be accorded the late soldier at Waikumete to-morrow. The late soldier's son managed to get away with a reinforcement, although only between 16 and 17 years of age. He was wounded and taken prisoner, and subsequently died a prisoner of war in Germany." [Auckland Star, Volume XLVIII, Issue 160, 6 July 1917, Page 3] [His son, Herman, was born in November, 1900 and was only fifteen years old when he enlisted on 22 April 1916 (the day after his father arrived back, invalided, in New Zealand) and sixteen years old when he died of wounds in February, 1917 when a prisoner of war. - NZWGT]