MAORI WAR VETERAN.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 254, 24 September 1935, Page 2

MAORI WAR VETERAN.

AGED BRITISH ARMY MAN.

The oldest soldier of the Durham Light Infantry, ex-Corporal George Dav, of Chaucer Road Ashford, Middlesex, a survivor of the British army which fought in the Maori Var from 1863 to 1866. has been dramatically brought into touch again with his old regiment, states the Newcastle-on- Tyne Evening Chroncile. Captain R. J. Appleby, of the Durham Light Infantry Depot, Newcastle, received a letter from a friend of this veteran of the “Faithful Dulhams informing him that Day had entered his 99tli. year and that, although totally blind and confined to h,s bed, he was anxious for news concerning his old regiment and always had near him the medals he won in campaigns of last Immediately Captain Appleby got into touch with Day’s relatives and a parcel was despatched to the veteran. TW narcel the Chronicle continues, has given Day the greatest thrill he has had for many years, for it contained I 1" regimental cap badge, a member’s badge of the Durham Light lniantiy Association, regimental histones and hooks dealing with the regiment, which friends have read to him at his bedSl Day lies in bed feeling the badges which he cannot see and recalling the days—nearly 80 years ago—when be was a young soldier serving in Burma with the old 68th. Regiment of Foot (the Durham Light Infantry). TWe?iment to to keep in close contact with Day through the regimental depot and the First Battalion, which is stationed only 40 miles from his home.