" On a holiday visit to Auckland, Mr Patrick Stuart Ogden, aged 23, a schoolteacher, whose parents live at 72 Edgecumbe Road. Tauranga, was fatally injured when he was struck by a truck on Grafton bridge on Monday afternoon. At first, the victim could not be identified and an inquest was opened this morning and adjourned."

[Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXXIII, Issue 13666, 25 January 1945, Page 2]

"The death occurred recently in Auckland, of L.A.C. Patrick Stuart Ogden, returned from overseas. The late Patrick Ogden was well known in Tauranga, being the eldest son of Mr and Mrs D. S. Ogden, Edgecumbe Road, and as a boy was education at Raetihi School where he became dux. after which he went to the District High School at Ohakune, gaining his Matriculation. He then entered the Teachers Training College at Wellington. He was appointed to teach at his old school. Raetihi, and later became sole teacher at Makakahi, and Ohakuru, Taihape. He terminated his school teaching to enter the Air Force, and, after being promoted to L.A.C., he went to the Pacific zone. He excelled at football and tennis. L.A.C Patrick Stuart Ogden was accorded a military funeral. The pall bearers were ACI C. J. Williams. ACI It. M. Tweedie, ACI N. B. White, and ACI J. G. Stewart. The funeral was conducted by the Rev. Canon Coats, Vicar of St. Matthews, Auckland."

[Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXXIII, Issue 13673, 3 February 1945, Page 4]