A GALLANT SOLDIER.

Taranaki Daily News, 4 December 1919, Page 5

A GALLANT SOLDIER.

DEATH OF SIR EVELYN WOOD. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. _,, London, Dec. 1. •ihe death has taken place of FieldMarshal Sir Evelyn Wood, V,C. He was 81 years of age.

The tote Ffeld-Marshal Sir Evelyn Wood, V.C., was a noted British general. Ho was born near Braintree, Essex. In 1854 he served with the Naval Brigade in the Crimea and was severely wounded at Sebastopol. Exchanging into the army, he served throughout the Indian Mutiny (1858). .Six months afterwards, while still employed huntingdown rebels in the jungles, he won the Victoria Cross. He fought in the Ashantee, Kaffir, Zulu, and Transvaal T2£?' He raised the E BTptian armv in 1882, and commanded the Fourth Brigade in the Egyptian Expedition of that v « ar - During the Boer War,. (1881) Wood, on the death of Sir G. Colley at Majuba, assumed the command of the British Forces. He was later for two and a half years Sirdar of Egypt, when he began the re-organisation and trainmgi°f m he Native Annv - In 1879 General Wood's services were rewarded *?*? a £ C,B - and ln lm he was created a Field-Marshal. He wrote several books, notably his autobiography *>om Midshipman to Field Marshal'" and his story of the Indian Mutiny. Field-Marshal Wood offered to "sweep a crossing" or anything else in the time or_ national crisis. "Winnowed Memories was the title of a book published by him m 1917.