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EDWARD MORITZ THEOMIN.
Edward, the only son of David and Marie Theomin was born on 29 January, 1885. He was educated at Otago Boys' High School which he attended in the years 1899-1901. After leaving school, he took up employment in his father's business as a warehouseman. When the Great War commenced in 1914, he was working at the Sawyers Bay Tannery and his responsibilities there would have been officially viewed as being essential to the war effort. However, he enlisted for military service in January 1917 and underwent training at Trentham during that year, earning his sergeant's stripes in September, attached to the Otago Regiment. He was posted overseas with the second draft of the 31st Reinforcements, sailing in the "Wallachia" in November 1917. By March 1918, he had been transferred to the Wellington Regiment and preceded to active service in France. For two months, he experienced field duty with No 1 New Zealand Infantry Battalion before being evacuated with bronchitis. He was back on active duty in Etaples late in May 1918 but his health problems persisted and he was discharged medically unfit in December. His disability was diagnosed as being nasal catarrh. Presumably because of his health, his final demobilisation date did not come through until February 1919.
At the end of the war, he met Ethel Grace Mocatta in London and the couple was married in May 1919. They returned to Dunedin and Edward resumed his duties as Manager of the Sawyers Bay Tannery.
In 1922, it became apparent that he was in the grip of a debilitating disease called Lethargic Encephalitis. For about a decade from 1917, this disease caused a world-wide epidemic which was thought to be of viral origin though it does not seem to have been medically proven. The syndromes demonstrated many of the characteristics of Parkinson’s Disease and its progression from earliest onset to death was slow but inevitable.
Edward Theomin died on 17 November, 1928 aged 44. Sadly for the Theomin family name there were no children from the marriage.
External LinkBiography of Edward from the Olveston Historic Home's website
EDWARD MORITZ THEOMIN.
Edward, the only son of David and Marie Theomin was born on 29 January, 1885. He was educated at Otago Boys' High School which he attended in the years 1899-1901. After leaving school, he took up employment in his father's business as a warehouseman. When the Great War commenced in 1914, he was working at the Sawyers Bay Tannery and his responsibilities there would have been officially viewed as being essential to the war effort. However, he enlisted for military service in January 1917 and underwent training at Trentham during that year, earning his sergeant's stripes in September, attached to the Otago Regiment. He was posted overseas with the second draft of the 31st Reinforcements, sailing in the "Wallachia" in November 1917. By March 1918, he had been transferred to the Wellington Regiment and preceded to active service in France. For two months, he experienced field duty with No 1 New Zealand Infantry Battalion before being evacuated with bronchitis. He was back on active duty in Etaples late in May 1918 but his health problems persisted and he was discharged medically unfit in December. His disability was diagnosed as being nasal catarrh. Presumably because of his health, his final demobilisation date did not come through until February 1919.
At the end of the war, he met Ethel Grace Mocatta in London and the couple was married in May 1919. They returned to Dunedin and Edward resumed his duties as Manager of the Sawyers Bay Tannery.
In 1922, it became apparent that he was in the grip of a debilitating disease called Lethargic Encephalitis. For about a decade from 1917, this disease caused a world-wide epidemic which was thought to be of viral origin though it does not seem to have been medically proven. The syndromes demonstrated many of the characteristics of Parkinson’s Disease and its progression from earliest onset to death was slow but inevitable.
Edward Theomin died on 17 November, 1928 aged 44. Sadly for the Theomin family name there were no children from the marriage.
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