Salt Lake Telegram | 1923-02-25 | Page 5 | Last Survivor of Light Brigade near Death in London

LAST SURVIVOR OF I- I LIGHT BRIGADE NEAR DEATH IN LONDON LONDON Ont Feb 24 Thoma Thomas W. W Shaw surviving member of Clr the Light brigade which made Itself Immortal Immortal Im Im- im- im mortal with its charge on a RUs Russian lan battery batter at Balaklava Crimea ia In 1854 1851 today still sUll was fighting Lighting a valiant battIe bat bat- r tle tIe against death In Victoria hosI hos hos- pital pita I But although the year 91 l cavalryman cay was clinging tenaciously to life the doctors said that he faced Inevitable defeat Bronchitis which caused his removal to the hospital was waa closing its deathlike ringers fingers on his throat t. t Shaw who was attended by Florence Nightingale after he pad had ad been wounded wound wound- ed In the charge ot of his famous bri gade settled here ere thirty-seven thirty years yeats ago H He told his friends that with the death of or a adein the the- United the United States last year he became the last survivor of or the s six siz x hundred hundreds