"Advice that her husband, Lieutenant T. G. Quilter, was killed while serving in North Africa has been received by Mrs Quilter, of Mataura. Lieutenant Quilter, who was a member of a well-known Mataura family, was born at Waitahuna, being a son of Mrs and the late Mr T. F. Quilter, of Mataura. He received his education at the Mataura School, the Southland Technical College, and the University of Otago, where he qualified as a civil engineer. For some time he was engaged by the late Mr E. G. Wilson, civil engineer, of Gore. He later transferred to the State Forest Service, being in charge at various periods of plantations on the West Coast, Rotorua, and in Southland. He left New Zealand with the 2nd Echelon Forestry Unit as a quartermaster-sergeant, and was promoted to the rank of lieutenant while in England. He married Miss Claire McConnell, a daughter of Mr and Mrs C. D. McConnell. of Mataura. He is survived by his wife and small son."

[Otago Daily Times, Issue 25166, 5 March 1943, Page 6]