The Scottish soldier and Empire, 1854-1902 - Reenactor.ru

128 The Scottish Soldier and Empire
It has been suggested that our plaudits [for the Gordon Highlanders]
have been a little overstrained, but we need not be afraid of that. Nothing
heartens a soldier better than deserved praise and the knowledge that
whatever merit he displays will be appreciated. 87
Notes
1 On this issue, see A. V. Tucker, ‘Army and Society in England,
1870–1900: A Reassessment of the Cardwell Reforms’, Journal of
British Studies, 2 (1963), pp. 110–41, and Skelley, The Victorian Army
at Home, pp. 288–9. On the Burmese operations, see J. Buchan, The
History of The Royal Scots Fusiliers (1678–1918) (London: Thomas
Nelson & Sons, 1925), pp. 250–1.
2 J. F. McCaffrey, Scotland in the Nineteenth Century (Basingstoke:
Macmillan, 1998), pp. 105–6; S. J. Brown, ‘ “Echoes of Midlothian”:
Scottish Liberalism and the South African War, 1899–1902’, Scottish
Historical Review, 71 (1992), pp. 156–83.
3 Scotsman, 6 August 1889, p. 4; ‘Great Battle in the Soudan’, Dumfries
and Galloway Courier and Herald, 7 August 1889, p. 7.
4 Illustrated London News, 12 July 1884, p. 46.
5 ‘The Black Watch Memorial’, Perthshire Advertiser, 14 November
1887, p. 3.
6 ‘The Memorial to the Cameron Highlanders’, Inverness Courier, 18 July
1893, p. 5; ‘The Unveiling of the Cameron Monument at Inverness’,
Northern Chronicle, 19 July 1893, p. 6; N. Newton, The Life and Times
of Inverness (Edinburgh: John Donald, 1996), pp. 133–4.
7 ‘The Unveiling of the Cameron Monument at Inverness’, p. 6; ‘Clan Cameron
Gathering in Glasgow’, Northern Chronicle, 9 February 1898, p. 3;
‘Opinion of Mr Bryce, M.P.’, Aberdeen Journal, 15 December 1897, p. 5.
8 ‘The Strathpeffer Gathering’ and ‘Recruiting in the Highlands’, Highland
News, 19 August 1893, p. 2.
9 H. Cunningham, The Volunteer Force: A Social and Political History,
1859–1908 (London: Croom Helm, 1975), pp. 46–9.
10 Ibid., ch. 6.
11 O. Anderson, ‘The growth of Christian militarism in mid-Victorian
Britain’, English Historical Review, 86 (1971), pp. 46–72.
12 J. O. Springhall, Youth, Empire and Society: British Youth Movements,
1883–1940 (London: Croom Helm, 1977), pp. 17, 22–8, 37.
13 H. Craik, ‘Physical Education in Schools’, 3 February 1900, in PP,
Report of The Committee of Council on Education in Scotland,
1899–1900, Cd. 170 (1900), XXIV, p. 263.
14 R. D. Anderson, Education and The Scottish People 1750–1918
(Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995), pp. 212–20.
15 A. Forbes, Chinese Gordon: A succinct record of his life (London: