"BRITAIN'S DEAD."
THE OLD SOLDIKIi.S' CEMETERY. Some luis been expressed (hut the authorities should be unaware of the name* nt 1 In* -oMieits wliom* remains wore Jnll*]■ lei lin the disused cemetery in Conrtenny street. Tlie authority lor exhumation mentions the remains of Dr. .WacAmlrew (surgeon 57th Regiment). and Sergeant Fahey (Taranaki Militia t, and three other persons. nameß unknown. Ali* ('. (Jillicuddv informs us that the following were there buried: ■lohn Flynn (married), JS. McCarthy, Dr. -UacAndrew. Private Patrick Scully, Private Reardnn, and Sergeant Faliev Flynn and .McCarthy were killed ill Oaknra. and their bodies brought to New Ilymouth for burial. Rvan was also killed at Oakum, but his body was not found for sin no day* afterwards, and was buried i M , the summit of tlio hill above the river and close to whore the Idoculimise then stood.
MrJJilliemlily remarked that BoTiby hang's tatlier was buried near this spot.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 321, 21 January 1908, Page 2
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150"BRITAIN'S DEAD." Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 321, 21 January 1908, Page 2
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