VETERANS ABROAD
[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—In your issue of May 18th, 1929 (p. 785), you ask if there is a living man whose father-in-law fought at Waterloo. I do not know about that, but in the room from which I now write there has often been one (still living in Ulster, and having a living brother now in New South Wales, and still in active life) whose father carried the Colours of the Connaught Rangers at the storming of San Sebastian in 1813. My friend is Mr. Wallace Stuart, the son of a general officer who was " colour-ensign " of the old 88th, and he- inherits his Christian name from Brigadier-General Wallace, who was in 1813 an officer of the regiment. Mr. Stuart was many years in Queens- land and was a partner in the well-known firm of pastoralists, Stuart Bros. and McCaughey (Sir Samuel, who made a great
benefaction to Brisbane University). Mr. Stuart's only son, a cadet in the R.A.F., 'died at Brighton in December, 1918, of pneumonia.—I am, Sir, &c.,
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