BRITAIN'S OLDEST SERVING SOLDIER.
When ihe Frrst Essex R-egiment landed at l;iverpool after sorvice in India, it inclnded on its s't rength Britain 's oldKCrviTig AV i 1 li riti i'X"i rscu't, ag'ed 74. Forwu't, who Went
out to Hutia with the Essex Regimem in 1S!)3, suw service in the »South Afri-, ean war, Buimia and India and although lie was discharged 011 pension in 1911, he returned to the armv aghin during the First "World War when he was linally discharged with the rank of sergeant. He was given a post on the statf of the -District Ression Court in Aladras where he lived -until the British, commenced to ovacuate India. Learning that -his old regiment would be oue of the last to leave, he successfulV appiied to have hiruself re-enlisted in order to returu to Britain with them. Forsc.ut is to become a Chelsea pensarne)'. . ' - : -*
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Chronicle (Levin), 18 February 1948, Page 5
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