Mr F. Gardner, of Valley road, has received information that his son, Private Alan Gardner, is returning home invalided and wounded. He arrives by the Willochra, which is due to arrive in Dunedin about the end of this month.
REF: POVERTY BAY HERALD, VOLUME XLIII, ISSUE 13893, 17 JANUARY 1916, PAGE 6

Alan GARDNEER returned to England to live. In 1973 Alan GARDNER died in Barking, England