Biography

PETER NELSON

Burial register ID: 8881
Surname: NELSON
First name: PETER
Middle names:
Gender: Male
Age: 23 Years
Cause of death: Unknown
Burial type:
Date of death: 02-Oct-1901
Date of burial: 04-Oct-1901

Block: 165
Plot: 4
Inscription:

THIS STONE

IS ERECTED BY

THE NEW ZEALAND

SODIER’S GRAVES GUILD

TO THE MOMORY OF

PRIVATE

PETER NEILSON

LATE 5th

NEW ZEALAND CONTINGENT

DIED 1.10.1901.

N.B. Trooper Peter Nelson’s surname is seemingly spelt incorrectly as ‘Neilson’ on the monumental inscription.

Bio contributor:

Peter Nelson was a Trooper who served in the Boer War. He came from Bluff, Southland, where he was employed as a labourer. He embarked with the New Zealand Mounted Rifles, Fifth Contingent, in March 1900 and served in the Transvaal receiving the Imperial South African War Medal. He came home on the Tagus arriving July 1901 and returned to Southland. He had suffered disease and ill health in Africa that continued at home and on a visit to Dunedin in search of a remedy he collapsed and was taken to Dunedin Hospital, where he died of acute meningitis on 1st October 1901. He was aged 23 years and is buried here alone.

There are 1 Interments in this grave:

Surname First names Age Date of death Date of burial
NELSON PETER 23 Years 02-Oct-1901 04-Oct-1901