Nephew of Admiral Beatty
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Dies at Wau
WAU, September 18.
TRAVELLER, soldier, scion of the old English nobility, lovable and popular, Lyn Brooke, the oldest mining identity in the Territory, died at Wau European Hos pital recently. He had been out in the Lower Bulolo area and contracted the dread Japanese River Fever. Thinking it was another bout of malaria, he let the fever get too great a hold of him before his faithful boys brought him into Dr. Von De Boch. All that could be done was done, but he died without regaining conscious ness. He was a nephew of the famous Admiral Beatty, and was in every respect a gallant gentleman.
A striking tribute was paid him by resi dents, who came from all districts by ’plane to pay their last respects to a man who had endeared himself to everyone. Pathetic, too, was the way his faithful “house boy” sat outside his window, day and night, while he was in the hospital, and on learn ing of his Masta’s death he broke down and wept bitterly.