THE "FATHER" OF THE BRITISH ARMY.
General Sir Abraham Josiaa Cloete, K 0.8., K.H., Colonel of the Princess of Wales' Own (Yorkshire) Regiment, completed his ninety-second year on August 7th, hnving been born at the Cape on August 7th, 1794. When he was born, Cape Colony was in the possession of the Dutch, but in the following year (1795) it was taken posby the British on behalf of the Prince of Orange, it being restored to the Batavian Republic by the Peace of Amiens. In 1806 it was again captured by a British force, and at the General Peace of 1814 it,was ceded in perpetuity to the British Crown. Sir A. J. Cloete, who is the oldest General in the British Army, entered the military service as a cornet in tho 15th Hussars, in 1809, or upwards of seventy-seven years ago, and fleshed his maiden sword during the Pindaree nnd Mahratta wars in India from 1817 to 1819, taking part also in the earlier wars in South Africa, and was for many years Quartermaster-General at the Cape of Good Hope. He attained the rank of C4eneral in 1871, and was placed on the retired list in 1877.
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Kumara Times, Issue 3099, 8 October 1886, Page 3
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