The Seward gateway and the Alaska evening post., 1917-07-17
VETERAN OF
 1871 PASSES Col. A. R. Boyle, British, French and American Soldier, Died This
 Morning

Drums still rumble on the drill grounds of Sandhurst, laundering guns give no time to silence along the Franco-Prussian frontier once more and the while they are drilling, drill ing, drilling down in Delaware to send men over seas, but in little home on Second Avenue all is stilled-the silent little man, who was warrior of three nations, has passed to that bourne ot peace from whence no traveller re- turns.
 Col. A. R. Boyle, (retired), First Deelware Regiment, and one time lieu tenant in the army of Her Late Maj esty Queen Victoria, and later in the armies of France in the Franco-Prus- sian war, who has been a resident of Seward for the past eleven years, died at two o'clock this morning at the age of 70.
 Colonel Boyle leaves widow, three sons and two daughters. The sons are Dr. F. M. Boyle, of Anchorage; Ed ward V. Boyle, druggist in Cordova; and Arthur R. Boyle, druggist at San Francisco, California. The daughters are Mrs. Zeigler, at Cordo- va, and Mrs. Elizabeth Metzger, who is now on her honeymoon trip, and will reside at Treadwell.
 Colonel Boyle's early life was that of a veritable soldier of fortune. He was of Irish parentage but was born in England, where at an early age, he entered the British military school at Sandhurst. When the Franco-Prussian war broke out, he left the British army in which he was lietenant and joined the French armies in the de- fense of Paris. At the close of the war he came to the United States and after a few years residence in New York city moved to Dover, Delaware, where he resided until he came to Alaska. His military knowledge re- suited in his being called by Della ware officials to organize the national guard of that state and he raised two regiments in Dover and others about the state, continuing with the organ ization until he left for the north.
 Colonel Boyle was a jeweler by trade after coming to the United States and had store at Dover, and one here for several years. Col. and Mrs. Boyle were married in Philadel- phia thirty-two years ago, four years after the death of his first wife to whom he was married at the age of | IS. Dr. Boyle, at Anchorage, is the only surviving child of the first wife.
 All of the children were notified by cable, of their fathers death this morn ing and as soon as advices are rceeiv- ed the date for the funeral will be fixed. It is the desire of Mrs. Boyle that he be accorded as nearly a mili- tary funeral as possible.
 Captain Luttrell of the local mili- tary asked Capt. T. M. Ward and Lieut.. Edgar Hawly, of the Spanish American war veterans, to make the necessary arrangemnts.
 Few there were among us, who real ized that the little man who quietly went his way about the streets had been a warrior, a leader of men, a colo nel of the regiment. Age mellowed the commanding mien of youth. The warrior of other days was busy with the affairs of home but now and again !. me thinks he heard the rumble of dis tant drums, for within the confines of his home where strange eyes could not see, he would occasionally grasp the sword of France, the sword he carried in Fl draw it majestically from it's scabbard as if he would again charge the Hun and drive him from so fair a land; then with a change of thought , he would send the blade home again ; into its scabbard and carefully put away the implement of war He did his full duty both to coun- try and to his family, raising sons and daughters who are well known and re- spected in many towns of the terri tory.