OBITUARY.

Otago Witness, Issue 3430, 9 December 1919, Page 51

OBITUARY.

(By Cable)

SIR EVELYN WOOD

LONDON, December 2. The death is announced erf Field-Mar-tial Sir Evelyn Wood, V.C. ; aged 30 years.

[Sir Evelyn Wood was educated at Marlborough College, and entered the naval service in 1852, and served in the Crimea with the Naval Brigade, where he was wounded carrying a scaling ladder in the Redan. He transferred to the army in 1855, and served with the 17th Lancers in>- suppressing the Indian mutiny, vanning the Victoria Cross in 1859. He took part successively in the Ashantee, Kaffir, Zulu, and first Boer war. in the 1882 expedition to Egypt, and in the Nile Expedition of 1894-5. * He became Quartermaster-general to the forces in 1893. Adjutant-general in 1897, and was appointed to the command of the Second Army district in 1901, his last appointment beingConstable of the Tower cf London in 1911. He has published several volumes of reminiscences, also a text-book en the use cf cav.alry. He was the son of an Essex clergyman.] HENRY FRICK: NEW YORK,. December 2. Mr Henry Clay Frick, the Steel King, an associate of the late Andrew Carnegie, has died from ptomaine poisoning. [Henry Clay Fr;ck began business life as a clerk for his grandfather, a flour merchant and distiller. Ho later embarked in a small way in the coke, business. Since 1897 he was chairman of the Board of Directors of H. C. Frick Coke Co., the largest coke-producing firm in the world. He came into public notice by his vigorous management during the farnous strike at Homestead in 1892, when he was several times shot and stabbed by one of the strikers. Since the latter year he was chairman of tho Board of Managers of the Carnegie Steel Company.]