When did the last surviving veteran of the Crimean War die?
I doubt that there would have been records kept them as they are now. If you consider, however, that most armies employed drummer boys as young as 10 years old, and that the Crimean War ended in 1856, that would make a child born in 1846. If that child lived to 100 years old (highly unlikely as they were cannon fodder, but not out of the question theoretically) then it is possible that survivors of the Crimean conflict were alive well into the first half of the 20th century and could have even lasted into the second half of it. However, I have never seen any records of such. The soldiers tended not to have long lives. (I have many soldiers on one of my New Zealand lines, one of whom was a drummer boy at Corunna and got the Waterloo Medal, others who fought in the 1840s in India. Only one lived past 1900, to 1909, and he was born in 1814.) Just found this: HE WAS AT BALAKLAVA.; Death of Barney McKernan, a Survivor of the Famous Charge. March 15, 1897, Wednesday Page 7, 345 words PHOENIX
