HANLON, Sapper Sylvester H, who died at Auckland Hospital on Friday, was buried at Birkenhead Cemetery on Sunday with military honours. Rev Father Patterson performed the last rites. The gun carriage was provided by the Auckland Detachment of the Field Artillery and the cortege was accompanied by the Ponsonby Boy Scouts Trumpet Band which sounded the Last Post. The fire party squad was from Narrow Neck Camp. The deceased, who was in his 25th year, was the son of the late William Hanlon and Mrs Margaret Blundell, Northcote. He left NZ on active service with the 2nd Reinforcements, attached to the Mounted Signal Troop. He was engaged in operations on Gallipoli and later saw service in France. He returned invalided last May and was an inmate of the hospital from that time until his death.

[AUCKLAND WEEKLY NEWS 19 September 1918, p.16 ]