The death is announced in late English paners of Major Thomas Baker Pleydell, aged eighty-nine years. Deceased joined tho Royal Marines seventy-one years ago, and served in the Syrian campaign of 1840 at D’Jovui', the storming of Sidon. and the bombardment of Acre, receiving the medal, and clnso and the Turkish medal. Subsequently, in 1854 and 1855, he served with the Baltic fleet during the Russian war, receiving die medal. He became major in 1857, after twentv-four years’ service
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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1715, 11 January 1905, Page 56
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79Untitled New Zealand Mail, Issue 1715, 11 January 1905, Page 56
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