"A Crimean veteran," Inverness Courier, April 20, 1906, p. 6e.   "Colin Slorach, an old Crimean veteran, died in Aberdeen on Monday. Deceased, who was a native of Morayshire, was 84 years of age. He enlisted in the 93rd Highlanders at Elgin, and went through the Crimean war, having taken part in the engagements at Sebastopol, Inkerman, and Alma, for which he received the Crimean medal and clasps. From the 93rd he transferred into the 21st Royal Scots Fusiliers, and completed 21 years' service with the colours. He was one of the guard of honour on the occasion of the landing of the late Queen Victoria at Aberdeen in 1848. Since his retirement deceased had acted for a short time as a policeman, and also as a recruiting sergeant, and for about a dozen years he had been superintendent of the Aberdeen Soup Kitchen. For fully forty years Slorach had been an army pensioner."