"A Crimean veteran," Inverness Courier, April 4, 1911, p. 7a.   "The death has occurred in Aberdeen, In his 83rd year, of Mr Alexander C. Femister, a Crimean veteran. A native of Inverness, he went in early life to Aberdeen, where, in his 20th year, after spending some years at his trade of a hammerman, he joined the Scots Fusilier Guards, He had been in the army about six years when the Crimean War broke out. He was present at the fighting at Alma and Balaclava, and at the siege of Sebastopol. In the last-mentioned action he was severely wounded while in the trenches, and on amount of his injuries he was ultimately discharged from the army. For a good many years afterwards he was able to do good service as a recruiting sergeant at Aberdeen."