CRIMEA AND INDIAN MUTINY VETERAN
DID NAVY VJfifiElOii DIES AT CODE AIL HIS FACULTIES AT TJIfiETY-EIGHT [l’riK UNITED I’ItESS ASSOCIATION.] CORK, November 21. An old warrior ul' the -British Navy, who took part in historic engagements of tho past generations, has died in Gore Hospital'in tho person’of Samuel Ellis, aged 98 years. Mr Ellis joined tho navy as a hoy, and was present at the storming of the heights ol Alma in 1851, tho taking of Odessa, and the fall of Sebastopol. He saw tho charge of tho Eight brigade, participated in tin events of the Indian Mutiny (being at tho relief of Lucknow), saw service m China and West .Indies, and was one of the party which escorted the illfated Emperor Maxmiliau of Mexico to Ids castle. After further adventures an epileptic lit led to his discharge, aml_ deceased came to New Zealand in the Nil's, after over 30 years in the navy, ultimately settling at Eerndale, near Gore. There, ho worked as a rahbitdr. Ho retained his faculties to. the last. Ho will he accorded a military funeral.
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Evening Star, Issue 19722, 24 November 1927, Page 2
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180CRIMEA AND INDIAN MUTINY VETERAN Evening Star, Issue 19722, 24 November 1927, Page 2
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