A MUTINY VETERAN
Press Associaticn—By Telegraph—Copyright. SYDNEY, August 21. (Received August 21, at 8.5 a.m.) A Crimean and Indian Mutiny veteran, named Albert Heap, died at the'age of 80. Heap witnessed the murder of "his own mother and sister in Nana Sahib's massacre at Cawnpore. Of late j-ears he had acted as gatekeeper at the" Agricultural Societ3"'s grounds. [There were no male relatives present at the massacre of the women and children by Nana Sahib's orders in the assembly room in the garden at Cawnpore. Heap may have seen them shot down at the Ganges, 1 which was prior to what is known as the massacre, or lie may have seen their bodies afterwards, but no Englishman saw the foul deed done.]
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Evening Star, Issue 15268, 21 August 1913, Page 6
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122A MUTINY VETERAN Evening Star, Issue 15268, 21 August 1913, Page 6
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