Miss Rachael Pitt, a native of Polwarth, Berwickshire, celebrated her hundreth birthday recently. Her father, who volunteered to take the place of a man taken by the press gang, became a colour-sergeant in the 78th Foot and fought at Waterloo. She remembers the days when her father kept vigil in the burial ground to prevent body-sn'atchers raiding the graves.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3737, 5 January 1928, Page 4
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59Untitled Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3737, 5 January 1928, Page 4
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