AN ADVENTUROUS CAREER CLOSED.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 161, 31 March 1916, Page 4 (Supplement)

AN ADVENTUROUS CAREER CLOSED.

There has .iust passed away, at ti'.e age of 7-, Colonel Henry Byrn >, C. 15 . YD.. who had had an exceptionally adventurous and frcturosqiie career. Uo fought with distinction under throe I'ifTercnt, flags —under Garibaldi in Italy, under General Grant and for t! e North i:i the American C'ivi! War, and lor England uyuinst the Boers. He was present whin King \ lctor T.mmaiiuei, with a suite magnificently comparisons! in un : fnrnis of lilue and silver, received the sovereignty of h « country from the hands of the notorious Garihnldi and his ragged band of troops. Th,» " r.iheratnr" of Itilv nri t t;aw fornieu' a notable contrast in his red shirt and long cavalry sahre. A fine retrospect for a soldier to look haeic e.noii in his last years. Colonel Byrne closed a fine career peacefully, though hi the nrdst of war's alarms, as lord •>f the manor® of in Hertfordshire, and Litihstonc-on-Sea ir. Kent, and as Mnvnr of New Romney.