OBITUARY
INDIAN MUTINY VETERAN
(By Telegraph—Press Association) HASTINGS, This Day. Thomas Powell, an ex-battery Sergeant Major in the Royal Black Horse Artillery, and a veteran of the Indian Mutiny, died at Hastings during the week-end at the age of 90 years. He came to New Zealand 58 years ago, and lived at Hastings for 36 years. Deceased was born at Chippenham, Wiltshire, in 1841. He joined the Army in 1858, being almost immediately sent with his battery to India. Besides taking an active part in quelling the Mutiny he served in Madias, Calcutta, Delhi, and Hyderabad. Powell was invalided out of the Army after twelve years’ service and came to New Zealand in the ship Christopher McLaughlin, arriving at Port Chalmers on Christmas Day 1872 He put in the first shot used in building the breakwater at Lyttelton, and was employed on the work of building the Rimutaka tunnel.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 6 January 1931, Page 7
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