CRIMEAN VETERAN DEAD.
Remembered Florence Nightingale. Per Press Association. PALMERSTON N., February 19. The death occurred at the Old People’s Home of Michael Gill. He was 96 years of age. Mr Gill was a veteran of the Crimea, joining the 57th Foot Rement of Diehards as a drummer boy when 17 years old. He remembered meeting Florence Nightingale, and the privations of the troops before the fall of Sebastopol. • Later he did garrison duty at Malta and Aden and saw active service against the Arabs. He came to New Zealand during the Maori War, and was a member of Major von Tempsky’s Forest Rangers. lie was present when the Rangers’ leader was killed. Later he was transferred and engaged in the hunt for Te Kooti. On retiring he went to Wanganui and then to Clive. Mr Gill entered the Parke Island Home, and was there when the big earthquake occurred in 1931. He was buried for two days before he was discovered, practically unscathed. Subsequently he was transferred to the Old People’s Home here.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20234, 19 February 1934, Page 7
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174CRIMEAN VETERAN DEAD. Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20234, 19 February 1934, Page 7
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