FUNERAL OF A CRIMEAN VETERAN
Cheistciiukch, This day. Yesterday afternoon the remains of a Crimean veteran, Samual Wilson, one of the "Six Hundred," were interred in Adding - ton Cemetery. Wilson was a trooper in the Bth Hussars at tho time of the famous charge, but rose to the rank of SergeantMajor. Up to his last illness he was employed at the railway workshops. He was buried with military honors, and a large number or his fellow-workmen and others followed his remains to the grave. Tho funeral cortege was headed by the Addington Workshops Band, playing the " Dead March in Saul."
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 4065, 1 August 1884, Page 3
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