UNDER FIVE FLAGS
A SOLDIER. OF FORTUNE CRIMEAN CENTENARIAN (From "The Post's" Representative.) NEW YORK, Mth December. Li an American poorhousc sits v soldier of fortune, now minus his fortune, ■who can authentically lay claim to the following experiences:— He saw the charge -of the Light Brigade. Ho was nursed by Florence Nightingale. He was present at the Indian Mutiny. He was a gun-runner for Garibaldi. Ho pulled lim press Carlotta out ot' a ditch. He prepared the Gettysburg plans. He was a general under Li Hung Chang. Captain Jtoland AYalpole is now 100 years old. He sits a little apart from the other inmates. He wears a rakish Tarn o' shanter, and on his breast arc medals with bars that bear historic names—: Crimea, Alma, Balaclava, Inkeiman, Sebastopol, Lucknow, Delhi, Pekin, Egypt. Ho was sent back from the East on sick Iciivo, but joined up under Garibaldi as a volunteer. Then he went to China, nnd was a general under Li Hung Chang. The American military observer in the Crimea, General _\li,ellaml, wrote him 1 hat there was ;i war in the United Uliilc?, ftncl t Fijit the. L'niuii Army needed technical ollicprs. Walpnk- packed his j:iips, iind became a cavalry ollicrr under I'u.-lcr. ll'.1 went tn'cnly miles within 1 hi- Confederate lines !<> prepare tin- to- ; juiKi-aphical inaj)s on which (lie iiatlle of 1 (ii'itysbiirg was based. Tlio old warrior is hale and Ivanr as Uha tnnK the emit'""-
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Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 6, 9 January 1928, Page 9
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240UNDER FIVE FLAGS Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 6, 9 January 1928, Page 9
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