PERSONAL ITEMS

Hawera Star, Volume LI, 20 February 1932, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

A Press Association message from London announces the death yesterday of King Friedrich August, of Saxony. At the monthly meeting of the_ South Taranaki Power Board in 11a-' wera last evening a motion of ■sympathy with Mr. E. A. Washer n the death of his father, Mr. C. Washer, was passed, those present rising in silence.

Sergeant-Major Edwin Bezar, Wellington, on Thursday celebrated his 94th birthday. He was born in Wiltshire in 18118, and joined the 62nd Wiltshire Regiment in January 1855, when he< was only 17 years of age. After serving in the Crimea with his regiment, he was transferred in March, 1856, to the 57th Regiment, known as the “Die Hards,” and the following year ho was one of the two hundred men sent from Malta to Aden when the Indian Mutiny broke out. In March, 1860, he rejoined the regiment in India, and the same year he sailed with the “Die Hards”, for New Zealand, landing in January, 1861. and taking part in all the engagements of the regiment in the Maori War. On the recall of the “Die Hards” to* England in 1866, Sergeant-Major Bezar took his discharge as colour-sergeant and settled in the Dominion. After many yeans of service in the Defence Department, lie resigned' ids position in 1892, and has since lived in Wellington.