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years. He was the last surviving officer of the Forty-ninth regiment who was with Lord Nelson at the taking of Copenhagen, and was awarded two medals and four clasps for gallant services.

Although a strict disciplinarian, Colonel Ormond was a man of generous impulses, and, during his long service in the army, gained the friendship of the Duke of Wellington, commander-in-chief, and many of the leading military men of the nation. In South Africa, during his service there, his efforts were ever on the side of peace, and just treatment marked his intercourse with the natives.

Colonel Ormond participated in many historic events that have made the name of England great, but in whatever position it was his fortune to be placed, acquitted himself with credit, and his life, from his birth among the sturdy and devoted Loyalists to his death in his native county in New Brunswick, was an honorable as well as remarkable career.

The portrait of Colonel Ormond in Acadiensis is from a photograph taken in 1859 by his son-in-law, the late George H. Perley, who was an amateur photographer of merit at a time when the art was in its infancy. Mr. Perley was the son of Moses H. Perley, a gentleman whose name as an author and scientist will live in the annals of our country.