Virtual
War Memorial
Australia

A striking tribute to the popularity of a man who possessed many friends in city and country districts in North Queensland was the largely attended funeral yesterday afternoon of  Mr. J. V. Dulhunty, of Chippendale, near Charters Towers. The late Mr. Dulhunty passed away after a short illness in the Charters Towers district hospital in the early hours of  yesterday morning at the comparatively early age of 51. Member of a well-known Queensland pastoral family, the late Mr. Dulhunty was born on Windeyer station, Central  Queensland, and, an early lover of the out-of-doors, he became in early life an expert horseman and a hard man to equal in his hand ling of cattle on the road. His natural propensities for work with stock led him into the occupation of droving, and later to a reputation which made him one of the most sought-after men in his trade in the north west.  In later years Mr. Dulhunty took up a small block of country, Chippendale, to the south east of the city, but continued nevertheless in the droving trade. In recognition of his  service for his country in the Great War, when he was a popular member of the 2nd Light Horse in Palestine, digger comrades, members of the local sub-branch of the R.S.S.I.L.A. acted as pall-bearers at yesterday's sad ritual. To the deceased's sorrowing wife and three children who survive him, the greatest sympathy Is extended in their sudden bereavement, also to his mother and two sisters Miss Eileen Dulhunty and Mrs. Lance Jones,Brisbane, and one brother. Mr. R. V. Dulhunty (Southport). Canon J. E. Dale performed the graveside  ceremony.