“Great and general sympathy is felt for Mr. A. A. Stuart Menteath, the well-known solicitor of Wellington, whose elder son, Lieutenant Charles Bruce Stuart Menteath, was reported on Monday last as killed in action at the Dardanelles on Saturday. Apparently, he had come safely through the hotly contested action in which the Australians and New Zealanders displayed such gallantry in making good their landing and taking the enemy's entrenchments at the point of the bayonet. It is a pity he wasn't spared, at any rate, to taste the fruits of victory by being present at the fall of Constantinople. However, he has died a soldier's death, serving his country in the thick of battle, and his name, with that of the other brave spirits who went forth at the Empire's call, will be treasured in the annals of New Zealand.
Lieutenant Stuart Menteath was only in his 23rd year. He was born in Wellington in 1893, and was educated at Nelson College, where he took an active part in the College Cadets. When his College course was over, he entered into farming in the Rangitikei district, and very soon joined the Territorials there, becoming lieutenant in charge of the Hunterville Mounted Corps in the beginning of his 21st year. Then he exchanged from the mounted force to the infantry battalion of his district, and when the present war broke out he immediately applied for a commission, and was gazetted lieutenant in Company A of the 7th (Wellington) Regiment of the Main Expeditionary Force.
His latest letters home from the camp near Cairo, where he was acting adjutant, spoke hopefully of the chances of active service. Like many others, be was chafing at the delay, and he wrote in the highest terms of his men and brother officers. Indirectly A Mr. Stuart Menteath, senr., has received most flattering accounts of his son's conduct in the camp at Cairo from his superior officers.” [ALL SORTS OF PEOPLE, Free Lance, Volume XV, Issue 777, 21 May 1915, p4]