HISTORICAL ACCURACY.
To the Editor,
Dear Sir, —Your report of the death of Mr Charles (“Bun”) Parker recalls the fact that he was sentenced to a degrading punishment during the Boer War for failing to salute an English officer, and was released by his comrades, whose action might have caused a crisis but for the .tact of Lord Kitchener. I was greatly interested in this incident, and struck at the same time by the fact that if Mr JParker was only forty-four at the time of his death he must have been a stripling during the Boer War (from fourteen to seventeen at the outside), and such treatment would have been horrible to contemplate at such an age. In the interests' of historical accuracy, can anyone say what age he really was at the time? ; —l am, etc., INQUIRER.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 18629, 5 December 1928, Page 9
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