SIR BINDON BLOOD
Sir Bindon Blood, the father of the British Army, who has died in his ninety-eighth year, made his last public appearance five years ago at the memorial service at St. Paul's to General Gordon, whom he had known, says the "Manchester Guardian." He ascribed his good health to the great care he had taken of himself after 80. He went to bed at 9 o'clock in his last decade. He had also been heard to say that tiger-shooting and soldiering made the right foundation for a long life. He had shdt many tigers, and some very big ones, and he used to denounce a heresy in the method of measuring tigers on which some tigerkillers' reputations were founded. He entered the Royal Engineers eighty years ago and fought in tl\e Zulu, Afghan, and Egyptian Wars. He missed the Crimean as he was otherwise engaged at the time. At the subjection of the Bunerwals in 1897-98 he had the present Premier, then a cavalry subaltern, as his orderly.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 25, 29 July 1940, Page 10
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170SIR BINDON BLOOD Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 25, 29 July 1940, Page 10
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