The Wairarapa Daily Times, 13 December 1909
(New Zealand)

PERSONAL MATTERS
The death is reported from Christchurch of a veteran of the Crimean war, Mr Edward Henwood, at the age of eighty years. Mr Henwood, states the Post’s correspondent, was a private in the Nineteenth Regiment, and left England in 1864. He was at the battles of Alma and Inkerman and the siege of Sebastapol, being one of the storming party at the Redan. He was wounded while on guard over some prisoners at Inkerman. He was one of seven who were the sole survivors of one contingent of 1020 men sent to the Crimea. Later he was sent to India, but was invalided Home, and got his discharge after serving ten years in the army. He received the Crimean medal, with clasps for Alma, Inkerman and Sebastapol, and a Turkish medal. Mr Henwood was born at Truro, Cornwall, in 1829, and landed in Lyttleton from the ship Rakaia in 1875. His wife died eight years ago, and he leaves four sons and three daughters.

Contributed by Bob Bolitho