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[?]ute To C. H. Luxmoore

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in old soldier typified the ■ belief that “they just r” it was Captain C. H. who passed on to his rest Queensland, late August, tember page 155). Many st War Diggers will turn mpty glass, after drinking ist to this old campaigner, let “Luxie” when he came e Exproboard in Rabaul nd even then —thirty-five —he seemed to be the ired Indian Army Officer: tig voice, up - brushed and dynamic in every I thought. s of experience with stock land stood him in good ;upervising the live-stock German plantations and of observation were later s a Board Plantation In hen he covered many id was an energetic mem staff. Later, on resigning Joard, he acted as inspec time for a commercial id then took up land at tell-known in New Guinea pular wife who, for many i the chatelaine of the lotel,” and was known : the Territory for her hospitality and organising many of the social func there. She now lives at Queensland. leaves two sons and a •the daughter is the wife C. Archer, the present itor of the Northern Both well-known to old is. i Henry Luxmoore was ingalore, India, the eldest mel C. P. Luxmoore, late lourable East India Com a veteran of the Indian id said to be the last of i Mutiny Veterans when 1936, at the age of nearly was educated in England to a Military College to m for the Army, but a losition took him to Aus ‘colonial experience”, and I Downs on the Burdekin Queensland he gained a mowledge in cattle and was a pioneer settler at , at Bowen and Hughen en War I broke out he ith the 15th Bn. AIF as was an original Anzac, is captaincy, was seriously nd returned to Australia,

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Settlement in Queensland for the Repatriation Department: thence to New Guinea in 1921.

For the past three years he has been a very sick man. His sight had failed and he was confined to hospital. He was 86 at his death.

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