TOO MANY MEDALS
, PENINSULAR WAR VETERAN. LONDON, February 11. The “Daily Mail,” recalling that Lord Stradbroke’s father fought at Toulouse against the French in 1814, married when 63, and was 68 when the present Lord Stradbroke was born, expresses the belief that the ex-Gover-nor of Victoria was probably the only mar. able to boast that his father had fought in the Peninsular War. Mr..T. Deaman, of Birmingham, has now written to the paper, saying that his father was an adjutant in the 57th Regiment, and fought in most of the principal battles. He was awarded a medal with six clasps, but refused the fifteen 1 clasps to which he was entitled decause the decoration would be too long to wear.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 25 February 1928, Page 2
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