Mr. Thomas Walsh Dies at'
Belfast Aged 81
Members of the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers in Shanghai on 'Thursday were mourning the death of Mr. 'Thomas Walsh, who died at Belfast on October 11, and who was' the oldest member of the regiment.
Born in 1854, Mr. Walsh was discharged in 1893 after 25 years' ser vice with the Inniskilings and among the interesting associations of this veteran's life Is the fact that he Was @ member of the guard of hon-Our at Hongkong when His Majesty the King, then Prince George, visited the colony in 1881 with" Prince Albert, There are no members of the battalion in Shanghai who remember this grand old man of the regiment, but ina place of honour in. the: sergeants) mess at Jessfield hangs a framed photograph of the man who not only typifies loyalty and faithful service to the country, but also a sturdy Inniskilling who was practically born in the regiment and whose family for four successive. genera-ons were eminently represented,
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