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■ Per Press Association. '. Londoh, February 15. The death is announced of FieldMarshal Sir John Simmors, aged 82. [Field-Marshal Sir John Lintorn Arabin Bimraont>, R.E., 0.G.8., G.G. M.G,son of Captain Frederick Sm moDB, was bore in 1821, and entered the Royal Engineers as second lieutenant in December 1837. His career as a military engineer was vety brilliant, bis services during the Crimea being of exceptional valu\ During that campaign he served »s H r lat-j Majesty's Commissioner to ihe Ottoman Army, being employed in all the negotattor.B having r«f ranee to thi movtm-n's of Osinin forces. He was als) tho Bri'ish Commissioner for laying out the Tuiko - Russian boundary io Asia. In addition to the British honours, ho was the recipient of several f >reign die' icctions. He was promoted to the rink of Field-Marshal in 1890.]
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 42, 17 February 1903, Page 4
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137OBITUARY. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 42, 17 February 1903, Page 4
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