A VETERAN'S DEATH.
AN INDIAN MUTINY SOLDIER. AUCKLAND, March 4. There passed "away at the Veterans' Home to-day, at the age of 74, William Wiggins, formerly of the Royal Artiiiery. Wiggins was born at Louth, Ireland. As a youth he was employed for two years on the estate of Mr H. H. Kitchener (father of Lord Kitchener). He enlisted in the East India Company's service, embaridng for India when the Mutiny broke out, and took part in 26 engagements. Hi? was present at the storming and taking of Delhi, and at the capture of the palace. He was wounded in the right thigh at the siege, the wound afterwards affecting his nervous system. He was awarded the Imperial and colonial pensions, and the Mutiny medal, with clasp for Delhi. The deceased was proud of relating how he had frequently cairied Lord Kitchener about in his arms when the Field-Marshal was a child, and arrangements had been made for the introduction of the veteran to Lord Kitchener, but, unfortunately, deceased's mind became so clouded that he could not have recognised the son of his former employer The remains are to be interred with military honours.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2921, 9 March 1910, Page 34
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194A VETERAN'S DEATH. Otago Witness, Issue 2921, 9 March 1910, Page 34
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