NAPOLEON’S LAST SOLDIER

Evening Star, Issue 18045, 12 August 1922, Page 2

NAPOLEON’S LAST SOLDIER

VETERAN’S QUAINT CLAIM. Sergeant Jan Krasinski, ft Pole, who claims that he fought at the battle of Borodino 110 years ago, and that he is the sole survivor of Napoleon’s armies, and one of tho oldest men in the world, has just returned to Poland. Hs says that he was twenty-two at the time Borodino was fought, in Napoleon’s Moscow campaign, which makes him 152 now. Fc is lively and; vigorous, and looks like a sturdy octogenarian. Ho now .proposes settling down quietly for tho rest of his life, (!) in the district of Pot on, where land is provided by the Polish Government for war veterans. _ Jan’s “young” wife, as he calls her, died last year in She had only reached the age of ninety-eight. "if this “old soldier” really were the age he claims to be, it would mean that he was born the year after the. French Revolution began with the destruction of the Bastille. He would have been two years old when Murdoch introduced gas lighting to the world, and a lad of fifteen when Nelson won tho battle of Trafalgar.