Tolhurst, Alexander M

Born Wellington July 1881 Died France (western front) 8 May 1918
A Tolhurst
Family owned the Molesworth sheep station
Trained at Guy’s Hospital, London
RMO, agricultural settlement in Aswan, Egypt 1908
Returned to NZ in 1910
Honorary Physician, Wellington Hospital 1912-1915
Enlisted with NZ Medical Corps 1915. Initially MO on the Hospital Ship Maheno
Died in the field while RMO 4th Battalion NZ Rifle Brigade

Obituary: NZMJ 1918 17:115
photograph courtesy Earle Andrew collection, Alexander Turnbull Library