In the Melbourne Benevolent Asylum, there is an okl Peninsular hero. On the occasion of a recent visit by Genet al Tom Thumb and suite, they met with the hero, Captain Wigmore, who showed them his medals and other trophies won on many a well-fought field at Salamanca, Vittoria, Orthos, and the Pyrenees, and who, with broken fortunes, in his old age had found a refuge in the asylum.
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Evening Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2157, 5 April 1870, Page 2
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69Untitled Evening Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2157, 5 April 1870, Page 2
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