j Colour-Sergeant Baskett, of Sabell Batd," t Smethwick. who has. just re-joined t&eRoyal Warwicks and is now training it ■ ] the headquarters of that regiment, Is tie father of the British. Army, in which he has done fifty years' service. >He has Jnst : re-enlisted at the age of seventy years, and he is still, at his veteran age, of soldierly bearing and remarkably active. r i He stands Oft high, and he enlisted when only 20 years of age. He has served M India, and be also went through' the Ziila campaign and the Boer war, being tbs proud poscssor of three medals, .one'jjslwf" i for good conduct .. '.:■'-' .;•-.
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Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 62, 13 March 1915, Page 6
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