A VETERAN'S CAREER.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 148, 15 August 1911, Page 2

A VETERAN'S CAREER.

Then* has cliuil in Wiltshire, Engliiid, Eduard McCaffery, formeiiy drum-major ol tlio 89th Regiment (Princess Victoria’s Royal Irish I‘usiiiors). McCadevy was actually bora into the regiment at sea in 1826. In as a i>oy lie witnessed the presentation ol the colours to the iogiment by Princess (afterwards Queen) Victoria. McCall cry lay lor two winters be t ore Sebastopol, and was also in the Indian Mutiny. In 1879 the three sets of colours uhica the Queen had presented to iier Jnsn regiment were trooped on tiic Queen’s parade at Aldershot, the Duke ol Connaught lining present to represent the Queen. MeCalfery’s career having been brought under notice of the officers of the regiment, lie received a special invitation to Aldershot, and was received as a guest in the olticers’ mess. During the actmU ceremony McCaffery was allowed to take up a position behind the 1833 colon’, s, and at the conclusion the old soldier was called out by Colonel Reeves and presented to the Duke of Connaught, who expressed the pleasure it gave him to see him there with his old colours. The next day, when McCafiery took leave of his regiment, every man wanted to shake hands witn him; so they were drawn up in line, and, arm in arm with the colonel, the proud old soldier walked slowly through whilst the baud played “Auld Lang Syne.”