Sole, Reginald & Leslie

Reginald Gore Sole (WWI 10/812), a carpenter for Boon Brothers, was killed in action at Chunuk Bair on 8 August 1915. 

The Sole's second son, Leslie Perry (WWI 10/877), a journalist at the Taranaki Herald, died of wounds received at the Daisy Patch, Cape Helles on 8 May 1915 and was buried at sea on 9 May.

Inscription on Memorial Stone

In Memory of

Sergt Reginald Gore Sole

10/812 Main Body NZEF

Killed in Action at Chunuk Bair

Gallipoli 8th August 1915

Aged 26 Years

and

Sergt Leslie Perry Sole

10/877 Main Body

Mortally wounded at the Daisy Patch

Cape Helles, Gallipoli

and buried at sea 9th May 1915

Aged 23 Years

Beloved sons of Thomas Gore  and Alice Sole

Related items:

Leslie Sole Mortally Wounded (Taranaki Herald 9 September 1915)

Journalists and the War (Taranaki Daily News 15 December 1915)

We Remember Him - Leslie Perry Sole (Taranaki Daily News 25 April 2013)