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Hugo Throssell's will and suicide note – newspaper article
In a will cancelling all former wills, and made on the day before he committed suicide last November, Captain H. V. H. Throssell, V.C., late of York-road, Greenmount, appointed Charles Merry, accountant, of Perth, his sole executor, and bequeathed all his estate and effects, real and personal, to his wife, Katherine Susannah Throssell, known in literary circles as Katherine Pritchard.
On the back of the will the deceased had penned a short note, reading: "I have never recovered from my 1914-18 experiences, and, with this in view, I appeal to the State to see that my wife and child get the usual war pension. No man could have a truer mate."
