VETERAN OF CRIMEA.
NINETY-SIX AND ALL WELL. .VISITS THE EXHIBITION. Hale and hearty, with a good memory and interest, in life well maintained, Mr. James Crawford, a Crimean naval veteran 0f,96 years of age, visited the. Dunedin .Exhibition, having travelled all the way.from his home in Naseby. On his coat are three medals won for service in the Crimea, while he was on the ships Trafalgar and ThoHawke. ; Tbes e medals Were pinned to. his breast, by Queen Vic-< toria. Another proud moment was when, as a side boy, he helped Florence Nightingale over the side of the ship at Constantinople. She had come, says Mr. Crawford, to see "the Christmas dinner turnout" that had been arranged on board. Mr. Crawford, who was trained oh'the old Victory, left the navy after the War, and went out to Victoria, Australia, coming across to New Zealand later. .It was in October, 1861, that he landed inDunedin, and he made, for the gpldfields, where he has lived ever since.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 1701, 17 April 1926, Page 15
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