Adelong Argus, Tumut and Gundagai Advertiser 26 Mar 1925
Obituary MR. GEORGE DUNSTER. The serious illness of Mr. George Dunster, which was referred to in Monday's Orange "Leader," ended in his death at the Orange Hospital in the early hours of yesterday morning. Mr. Dunster served in the Boer War. He was one of tho Australians who figured at the Gallipoli landing, and subsequently was with the Light Horse in Egypt. It was there that he received a bullet in one of his lungs, which he carries to his grave, and was responsible for his being an invalid ever since. For many months he was a patient in the Randwick Military Hospital, and, after being discharged from there, spent some time at Katoomba with a view to recuperation, coming to Orange about two years ago. A little over a week ago tubercular trouble, which had set up in the lungs, spread to the intestines, and peritonitis combined with this to cause the end. The deceased was a native of the Tumut district, and in his 61st year. The love of empire was keen in him, as it was with his forbears, many of whom had figured in national conflicts with distinction in centuries that are past. It was his strong patriotism which urged him to use the necessary strategy to be accepted for active service in the last war, when he was considered past the age which entitled him to do so. He was a single man, and cultivated few friend ships, but those who were privileged with being intimate with him were constrained to have a high regard for him. A voracious reader, his conversational powers were far above the average, his opinions on topical matters always well-grounded, and his quotations from popular authors invariably made in good season. His pride in Australia and all that is Australian was only equalled by the fervour which he displayed towards all that counted with the empire of which it forms a part. The local branch of the Manchester Unity order of Oddfellows, of which he was a member of over 30 years' standing, are making the necessary arrangements for the funeral. The deceased's connections are residents of the Tumut district and it was there that he was interested in landed pursuits for a long time.
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