[Editor: An extract from the “In Memoriam” notices, regarding Australian military personnel, published in The Age (Melbourne, Vic.), 22 October 1904.]
In Memoriam.
GIBBS. — In loving remembrance of Albert Arthur Gibbs (Arthur) who died of enteric fever at Wei-hai-wei, China, on active service with Victorian Naval Contingent, on the 18th October, 1900.
Oh for a touch of a vanished hand,
Or the sound of a voice that is stilled.
Blessed are they which rest in the Lord.
—Inserted by his mother, brothers and sisters.
Source:
The Age (Melbourne, Vic.), 22 October 1904, p. 5, column 2
Editor’s notes:
Wei-hai-wei = (also spelt: Weihaiwei) a territory leased from China by the United Kingdom from 1898 to 1930; it was located on the northern side of the Shandong Peninsula (also known as the Shantung Peninsula), where the modern city of Weihai is situated (in Shandong province, China)
See: 1) “British Weihaiwei”, Wikipedia
2) “Weihai”, Wikipedia
3) “Shandong Peninsula”, Wikipedia
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