HLI Chronicle 1915 - The Royal Highland Fusiliers

86 HIGHLAND LIGHT INFANTRY CHRONICLE.
THREE SONS AND TWO SONS·IN·LA W
IN THE H.L.I.
A WOMAN of 59 years of age, Mrs. Crayton,
who resides at 176 Abercromby Street,
Calton, Glasgow, has good reason to be proud
of what her family is doing for King and
country. She has seven sons and three sonsin-law
with the Forces. Nine of them are
on active service, while the youngest of the
iamily, Charles, is training with the 18th
H.L.!. at Girvan. The eldest, Frank, has
been 17 years in the Army, and fought in
the Boer War. He has been with the Scots
Guards in France since the outbreak of
hostilities. Henry is connected with the
Royal Field Artillery, and has spent eight
years in India; John is a Navyman, and was
with cruisers in Chinese waters for five years;
William, who is in the Royal Scots, has been
eight years in India; Philip and Patrick are
both in the Highland Light Infantry. The
former joined as a band boy when he was
-15 years of age. Her sons·in-Iaw are Private
William l\l['Cullooh, 1st Scots Guards, who
resided at 36 Salamanca Street, Parkhead, and
is at present lying wounded in hospital in
France; Private James Lang, who resided
at 14 Thorneyhill Street, Parkhead; and
Private ,Tames ~{ooney, 87 Commercial Road,
South Side. The last two are in the H.L.!.
Henry, William (twice), Patrick, and Philip
have been wounded, but are back again in
the trenches.
Mrs. Crayton and her family are well known
in the Parkhead district, where· she resided
uutil a few years ago, when she removed to
the Calton. All her sons and daughters were
born in Parkhead, and her husband prior to
his death was employed in Messrs. Beardmore's
Parkhead Forge.-Glasgow Evening News, 4th
May, 1915.
A BRITISH officer inspecting sentries came
across a raw-looking recruit. "What are
you here for 1 " he asked. "To report anything
unnsual, sir." "What would you call
unusual 1 " "I dunno exactly, sir." "What
would you do if you saw five battleships
steaming across that field yonder 1" "Sign
the pledge, sir."
GLASGOW NEWSBOY
WOOS THE l\!USE IN PRAISE OF
THE GALLANT H.L.!.
:MR. TOM HAMILTON, of the Bank Restaurant,
Glasgow, is in receipt of a letter from Lance­
Corporal Willie Waugh, of the 1st H.L.!.
Wangh will be remembered by many as a
newsboy, his" pitch" being around the foot
of· Queen Street. He is in hospital at Fnl~
bourne, near Cambridge, just now, after five
months in the trenches, sometimes standing
to the waist in water. While in hospital the
Lance-Corporal has been wooing the muse,
and the old Glasgow newsboy does very well.
He heads the poem "H.L.!. Through the
German Lines," and it reads thus:­
The night was dark and stormy,
The shells were bursting high;
The Germans they came rushing on
To meet the H.L.I.
Bnt the Scottish lads were ready,
And, with a steady fire,
They stopped the beggars in their rush,
And made the beasts retire.
They thought they'd have another try,
This time to conquer, do, or die;
And now in front of us they lie,
Slain by the gallant H.L.!.
Now day has dawned, and all is o'er;
The Huns are there to rise no more,
And those who rushed, but did not die,
Are prisoners now with the H.L.!.
THE recruiting campaign speaker's story
of the girl who flirted six young fellows to
the front has its exact converse in Dean
Ramsay's anecdote of the old maiden lady of
Montrose who refused to subscribe to the fund
for raising a volunteer corps .. "I'll dae nae
sic thing; I ne'er could raise a man for myself~
and I'm no' gaen to raise men for King
George."