LAST MUTINY SURVIVOR

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 74, Issue 139, 15 June 1931, Page 3

LAST MUTINY SURVIVOR

DEATH AT 92 YEARS. A man who fought at Cawnpore tnder Sir Colin Campbell, in 1857, and vhose father, in the same regiment, lerved under Wellington in the Peninnilar War, died at Chelsea, England, recently, at the age of 92. Ho was Sergeant William Brereton, of the late 88th. Connaught Rangers, Chelsea Hospital ’s oldest soldier, and said to be the last survivor of the Indian Mutiny. He died without a regiment, for the Connaught Rangers were disbanded on ;he formation of the Irish Free State. Sergea Dre ret on was one of the ddest soldiers in England, but had icld the proud position of “ father of .he hospital o for only three months. In December, his former colleague, Private Franklin, who fought at the Siege of Delhi, in 1850, under General John Nicholson, died at the age of 94. The oldest living soldier in Britain is Sergeant-Major Stratford, of the 14th Light Dragoons, who is 102. He took part in the battles of Chi Ilian wallah tn ’ Gujerat in 1849. He lives at Wolverhampton.