LAST OF THE "DIEHARDS."
VETERAN REMARKABLY FIT. • (By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) PALMERSTON N., Tuesday. One of" two survivors of the famous 57th Regiment, the "Diehards," SergeantMajor E. Beazar, of Wellington, who is 91 years old, travelled from Wellington yesterday to be present at the celebration of tlic 50th anniversary, of the Palmerston North Volunteer Rifles, of which he was the first instructor. The other New Zealand survivor of the 57tb Regiment, Private Michael Gill, who is in his ninety-third year, is an inmate of Park Hill Home, Waipukurau. The pair met in December last, when the sergeant-major visited his old companion.
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Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 221, 18 September 1929, Page 17
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