OBITUARY. 
Major-General R. B. McCrea (retired), died at Ewell, Surrey, on lltli Feb., 
1897. He was first commissioned as 2nd Lieutenant, 18th June, 1842 ; became 
Lieutenant, 4tli April, 1813 ; 2nd Captain, 28th November, 1848; Captain, 28th 
November, 1854; Major, Sth April, 1859; Lieut.-Colonel, 22nd February, 1863; 
Colonel, 22nd February, 1868, and retired on full pay with lion, rank of Major- 
General, 4th February, 1874. Major-General McCrea commanded, as a Captain, 
three batteries of Royal Artillery and a detachment of the 41st Regiment during 
the revolution in Hayti in 1859 ; he landed and protected the Europeans at Port- 
au-Prince, carried off the Emperor, his family and ministers. For these services 
he received the thanks of the English and French Governments and the brevet of 
Major. 
Lieutenant A. A. Boggs, who died at Trimulgherry on 15th February, 1897, 
was first commissioned as 2nd Lieutenant, 15th February, 1889 and became 
Lieutenant, 16th February, 1892. 
By the death of Sergeant-Major A. E. Bryant, R.A., on the 6th February, 
1897, the members of this Institution have lost one who had faithfully served 
them for nearly 35 years. 
He joined the Institution as a Clerk, when a Bombardier, in May 1862 ; be¬ 
came Superintending Clerk in 1868 and was granted the rank of Sergeant-Major 
in mi. 
Owing to the weakness of his eyesight the Committee recently offered him an 
addition to his military pension. He had only left the Institution building five days 
to commence as was hoped a long period of well earned rest when he died very 
suddenly from failure of the action of the heart. He was* buried with military 
honours in Charlton cemetery on the 10th February as his discharge to pension 
had not been completed. 
