LAST MUTINY SURVIVOR
DEATH AT 92 YEARS. A man who fought at Cawnpore ruder Sir Colin Campbell, in JSS7, and whose father,. in the same regiment, served under Wellington in the Peninsula- ’War, died at Chelsea, England, recently, at the age of 92. He 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 the formation of the Irish Free State. Sergeant Brereton was one of the oldest soldiers in England, but had held the proud position of “father of the hospital” 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 Chilhanwttllah and Gujerat in 1849, He lives at Wolverhampton.
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Hokitika Guardian, 10 July 1931, Page 2
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172LAST MUTINY SURVIVOR Hokitika Guardian, 10 July 1931, Page 2
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