We greatly regret to record the death on Tuesday of
Sir Evelyn Wood. His death removes the last of the great names of the Victorian Army, and cuts one of the last links which bind the Army of to-day to the Crimean War and the Indian Mutiny, Sir Evelyn Wood was one of the successful band of Army reformers whose names will always be associated with Lord Wolseley. He survived all his comrades in that reform work— Sir Redvers Buller, Sir William Butler, Sir Henry Brackenbury, Sir John Ardagh, and Sir Frederick Maurice. At an early age Evelyn Wood transferred from the Navy to the Army. As a Midshipman in the Crimean War he was twice recommended for the Victoria Cross; but the winning of this distinction was post- poned till, as a soldier, he took part in the suppression of the Indian Mutiny. In the Ashanti War of 1873 and the Zulu War of 1879 his work was conspicuous and invaluable.
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