Surgeon-Major Henry Benjamin Hinton, born Swansea, Portsmouth, United Kingdom, 7th March 1813. On Friday, March 7, 1913, on his one hundredth birthday he was the oldest living officer in the Empire and the oldest living member of the Royal College of Surgeons. He died in 1916 at the age of 103. Surgeon-Major Henry Benjamin Hinton's story is told from his journal, written in January 1887, and newspaper clippings held by his great great grandson, Philip Bramley.
Monday, October 23, 2006
Napoleon
During the great wars with Napoleon a chain was cast across the mouth of Portsmouth harbour, to prevent the entrance of any of the Enemy's ship's, some of the links of it were to be seen on the beach when we were boys - a similar chain existed at Vienna, on the Danube to prevent the Turks from passing it about the Year 1680.
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