Miss Hachael Pitt, a native of Polwarth, Berwickshire, celebrated her hundredth' birthday recently. Her father, who volunteered to take the place of a man taken by the press gang, became a colour-ser-geant in the 78th Foot and fought at Waterloo. She remembers the days when Her father kept vigil in the burial ground to prevent body-snatchers raiding the graves.
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Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 145, 16 December 1927, Page 6
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