MUTINY VETERAN DIES
STORY OF ROMANTIC MARRIAGE Major-General W. A. Franks, aged 91, believed to be the last but one of the surviving officers who served in the Indian Mutiny, has died at Southampton. After the Mutiny he married Miss Emily Davies, of Swansea, who also went through the Mutiny. She was I carried into the fort at Allahabad suffering from smallpox, and she and her sister were the last two women to enter the beseiged fort in 1857. General Franks, after her death, married Mrs. Lewis, daughter of General Nisbet, of Southampton, who served throughout the Mutiny with the 37th Native Infantry. An aunt of Mrs. Lewis was thrown in “the bloody well” at Cawnpore. General Franks j joined the Army at the age of 17. J
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 892, 8 February 1930, Page 26
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128MUTINY VETERAN DIES Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 892, 8 February 1930, Page 26
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