INVESTIGATION WANTED.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 73, 19 November 1912, Page 6

INVESTIGATION WANTED.

A HERO’S STORY. The following letter dated “Whangamomona, November 17th, 1912,” reaches ns, and we publish as received. The facts, if as stated, should be looked into by the authorities; — “To the Editor, ‘Stratford Post,’ Dear Sir, —In your issue of the 26th, in a paragraph from' the “Taranaki Herald,” re Veteran Robert Johnson, your statement is rather misleading. 1 may state that I am 69 years of age, having been horn in County Tyrone in 1843, and am a son of Lieut.-Colonel Johnson, who fell at Alma in the Or .- mean war in 1861. I joined the service and arrived in New Zealand in 1863, where I fought through the Waikato Maori War. I was called home to England in 1868 and fought in the Ashanti War. In 1879 fought in the Zulu War and I received the V ictotia Cross. After the Zulu war I went to Egypt and was wounded in the battle of Tel-el-Kebir and was then invalided home from the British Array, holding rank as Major. This shows how so-called British .heroes are treated, as I am among the first to go in the present retrenchment of men on the railway works here.—J am, etc., “MAJOR ROBT. JOHNSTONE, “V.C.”