LAST MUTINY SURVIVOR

Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 239, 6 July 1931, Page 16

LAST MUTINY SURVIVOR

Death at 92 Years A man who fought at Cawnpore under Sir Colin Campbell, in 1857, and whose father, in the same regiment, served under Wellington in the Peninsular War, died at Chelsea, England, recently, at the nge of 92. He was .Sergeant William Brereton, of the late 88th Connaught Bangers, Chelsea Hospital’s oldest soldier, and said to be the last survivor of the Indian Mutiny. He died without a regiment, for the Connaught Bangers were disbanded on the formation of the Irish Free State. Sergeant Brereton was one of the oldest soldiers in England, but had held the proud position of “father of the hospital” for only three months. In December, his former colleague, Private Franklin, who fought at the Siege of Delhi, in 1850, tinder General John Nicholson, died at the age of 94. The oldest living soldier in Britain is Sergeant-Major Stratford, of the 14th Light Dragoons, who is 102. He took part in the battles of Chillianwallah and Gujerat in 1849. He lives at Wolverhampton.