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LIVED IN FIVE REIGNS

... Rachel Pitt yesterday celebrated her 1 03 r birthday at Ilawick, Roxburghshire. Her father was a colour-sergeant in 7th Regiment of Foot Infantry, and fought s the Battle of Waterloo. CAR CRASH DEATH Woman Killed in Broadside Collision with Telegraph Pole ...

Published: Monday 17 November 1930
Newspaper: Daily Mirror
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 99 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

DAUGHTER OF WATERLOO VETERAN 103

... on Sunday celebrated her 103rd birthday at Hawick, Roxburghshire, Scotland. Her father was a coloursergeant in the 7th Regiment of Foot Infantry, and fought at the Battle of Waterloo. Six weeks' courtship and seventy years of happy married life is the ...

Published: Friday 21 November 1930
Newspaper: Central Somerset Gazette
County: Somerset, England
Type: | Words: 107 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Lunan Valley Notes Link with Admiral Lord Nelson’s Time. There are still descendants living of an Inverkeilor ..

... Valley Notes Link with Admiral Lord Nelson’s Time. There are still descendants living of an Inverkeilor soldier the 7th Regiment of Foot, who, stationed at Canterbury Barracks, was told off for duty to help line the streets in London in 1806, wh n the ...

Published: Friday 20 November 1931
Newspaper: Arbroath Herald
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 115 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

BEXHILL LADY BEBEAVED

... of the heroes of the Relief Luckrow. Born in 1840, enlisted in the 26th Regiment of Foot in 1858, and served almost his entire period 19 years in India the l©7th Regiment of Foot. leaving the Army at the age 86, he obtained employment at the ...

Published: Saturday 21 March 1931
Newspaper: Bexhill-on-Sea Observer
County: Sussex, England
Type: Article | Words: 154 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

SCOTSWOMAN'S 104th BIRTHDAY

... of Duke Street, Hawick, yesterday celebrated her 104 th birth day. Miss Pitt's father was a colour-sergeant in the 7th Regiment of Foot, and fought the battle oi Waterloo. She was born at Polworth. near Duns, Berwickshire, and although her life has seemingly ...

Published: Tuesday 17 November 1931
Newspaper: Dundee Courier
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 223 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

(Queries

... following very singular story has been circulated with much confidence in Aberdeen —In the year 1786, Adjutant of the 7th regiment of foot, then quartered here, died in consequence of a fall received skating, leaving handsome young widow, then about, her ...

Published: Friday 24 July 1914
Newspaper: Aberdeen Weekly Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 398 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

LOCAL INTELLIGENCE'

... in the person of Mr. (I `ql Lindup, of Broadwater, Worthing. He years of age, and served in the Crimean with the old 7th Regiment of Foot. DEATH OF MRS. VERRION The death occurred at'Midhurst yesterday' Laura Verrion, licensee of the Fire Brigade dill/ ...

Published: Wednesday 18 October 1916
Newspaper: Sussex Daily News
County: Sussex, England
Type: Article | Words: 585 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

COVENTRY STANDARD

... murdered, a man called Ford and another lieutenant who was aiding and abetting therein, being under your command in the 7th Regiment of Foot now quartered in this city, I hereby command you to deliver up to be dealt with agreeable to the law in that case made ...

Published: Friday 09 July 1915
Newspaper: Coventry Standard
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 2944 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

THE COVENTRY STANDARD

... the columns of this paper, but the authorities evidently thought it advisable to move the regiment, for on March 24. 1777, we • The part- the 7th Regiment of Foot which has been recruiting the last five months in this city and neighbourhood marched from ...

Published: Saturday 08 June 1940
Newspaper: Coventry Standard
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 1312 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

UNFAIR TO OFFICIAT.S

... interesting career. J. A. N. Ralph, of Newouay, and pleaded not Born at Trelill in 1841, he enlisted in the lit Battalion 7th Regiment of Foot in Decem- her of 1858, and was ditch Inspector Weary said defendant was drivi ng arged after 181 a car in the direction ...

Published: Thursday 11 March 1937
Newspaper: Cornish Guardian
County: Cornwall, England
Type: | Words: 2167 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

BLIND

... on her birthd she had man visitors. e was born Polwsrth. in Berwickshire, her father being colour-sercreant in the 7th Regiment of Foot, who fought at Waterloo. A meeting of the committee of the Scottish Society for the Protection of Wild Birds was held ...

Published: Tuesday 18 November 1930
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1775 | Page: 7 | Tags: none