HLI Chronicle 1907 - The Royal Highland Fusiliers

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,HIGHLAND LIGHT 'INFANTRY CHRONICLE. 139 ~TUG-OF-WAR (Inter-Company}.-l, "G" Company; 2," E" Company. < ONE MILE RACE.-1, Bugler -Soutnworth (time, 5 min.); 2, L.-Corpl. Bristowe; 3, Bugler Lambert. TOSSING THE CABER.-1, Sergt. Neil; 2, Piper Neil; 3, Serg.t. Lawrie. CORPORALS' RACE-120 YARDS.-1, L.-CorpL Roberts; 2, L.·CorpL Lockyer; 3, Corpl. Webb. SACK RACE.-l, L.-Corpl. Evans; 2, Boy Tufnell; 3, Boy Spencer. ' OBSTACLE RACE.-1, L.-Corpl. Roberts; 2, Bugler Southworth; 3, L .. CorpL Bristowe. HURDLE ~ACE.-1, Bugler Lambert; 2; Pte. Berry; 3, Pte. Riley. 120 YARDS RACE (Depot, Seaforth Highlanders}.-l, CoL-Sergt. M'Rae; 2, Pte. Car· tuthers; 3, Pte. Robson. QUARTER-MILE RACE.-l, Bugler Lambert (time, 61 3;> secs.); 2, L.-CorpL Roberts; 3, L.·CorpL Webster. BAND RACE - 300 YARDS.-1, L.-Corpl. Lockyer; 2, Boy Spencer; 3, Pte. WatsoD. CONSOLATION RACE (300 yds.}.-1, L.-CorpI. Wootton 2, Pte. Taylor; 3, Boy Suffield. PIPING. MARCH, STRATHSPEY, AND REEL (for Pipers and Acting-Pipers over three years' service in pipes).-l, Piper Haines; 2, Piper Young; 3, Piper Johnstone. MARCH, STRATHSPEY, AND REEL (for Pipers and Acting-Pipers under three years' service in pipes).-1, Boy Findlay; 2, Piper Montgomery; 3, Piper Bruce. MARCH (for Pipers and Acting-Pipers under one year's service in pipes).-1, Boy Findlay ; 2, Piper Bruce; 3, Piper Cater. PIOB AIRE ACHD (for Pipers and Acting Pipers).-l, Piper Young; 2,Piper Haines; 3, Piper J ohnstone. DANCING. HIGHLAND FLING.--l, Piper Johnstone; 2, Boy Findlay; 3, CorpL Richardson. SWORD DANCE.-l, Boy Findlay; 2, Pipe Johnstone; 3, CorpI. Richardson. REEL.-1, Pipers Johnstone, Haines, Neil, and Boy Findlay; 2, Pipers Mackenzie, Bruce, CampbeU, and Livin~:fltone; 3, CorpL Richardson, and Pipers Young, Montgomery, and Cater. W. H. WITH THE SIGNALLERS IN THE ' CAVALRY MANCEUVRES, IN PERTHSHIRE.' , THE following atillounF of "the ~' general, !i,itull-~ tion" is taken fr'om the "times;' .',:'; " Omitting d~~~ill}.the'~~ti~l si~a~oD,',.;a~ that Lieutenant..Coloneltlre ,Marq.uis.of Tttl1ibardine (Red), with ,his two'Regimel'lts:df the Scottish Horse; the 18th'ilussats, and 'two guns, occupied, aceritral ;~i~uati~n'in,,'the neigbbourhood of Dunk~ld and Perth;, ,while Lieutenant-Colonel J~ord Lovat's (Blue) two Regiments of scouts, Scots Greys, Fife and Forfar Yeomeq, and two guns" were widely separated at Brodie, Spean-bridge, Grantown, Cupar, Killin, ,and Aboyne. ~ed" i,nferio~ in force but ho~~in~ ,~ReI,lt!als~t.ul1:t~o,n" ~~ ordered to prevelj.t tlle concentranon.of,Blue, whose troops ,w~re ,di~8eminate1 'h9m!'!W~' Moray Firth on thenorth to the FIrth of, Fqrth on the south,and froin east to west' 'over nearly as great an extent of ground. "The problem set to each commander was a difficult one. Lord Lovat was exposed to the danger of being b'eaten in detail before his scattered commandos, could unite, and unite they only could by means of rapid marching, good arrangements, and rather more than a fair share of luck. Lord Tullibardine, again, though possessing the initial advantage of concentration in a central position, could not take full advantage of it unless able to locate, find, and run down with 'a superior force, one or more of Lovat's col\:f'l11hs', which would probably scatter and reunite' \t a distance if closely pressed. Tullibardine' not "orily had to smash one or more of the hostile eolumns, but to effect this purpose in a very short timethat is to say, befOJ;e the other bodies, hastening up from all points of the comp¥s, could reinforce their friends and establish a numerical preponderance. Tullibardine's task was therefore not an easy one, and his freedom was further hampered by the fact that he was based upon an intrenched camp in the wild hills north of Loch Ordie, where six months' supplies and ample stores of ammunition were supposed to h,a~e,. ~~encollected,' and where he was ,ordered to remain at all costs in order to overawe the tribes whose territ.ory he was occupying in the interests oI.a southern Power. By ,tihis artifice Colonel' Rimington compelled the., rivals to meet. 4;l.t- )~t in the broken country west of the Forest OD ,Clunie, : .".
160 HIGHLAND LIGHT INFANTRY CHRONICLE. the district appointed for the tactical decision of the manreuvres, but at the same time he presented Red with an incubus which deprived him of much liberty of action and fettered ,his ,moyements from first to last. He did more, for he allowed Lord Lovat to prove, and Tullibardine to experience, the virtues of the military maxims handed down to the Scots by Good King Robe~t's Testament. .," When the manceuvres began at 4 a.m. on June Hl, Lord Tullibardine took a correct view of the situation. Lovat's Scouts at Brodie were 75 miles as the crow flies from Dunkeld, and therefore temporarily out of reach; the Blue guns at Gr&.ntown-on-Spey were 55 miles away to the north, and between the Red force and both th,ese hostile bodies the Pass of Killiecrankie and the whole range of the Grampian Hills intervened. All that Red could do on this side was to occupy the Pass and to send' scouting parties to the north in order'tO gain touch' with I,ovat and obtain early,' wa~ing of his approach. Westward of Red, however, there lay the Scots Greys, isolated at Killin at the head of Loch Tay, and only 30 miles distant, as the crow flies, from Dimkeld. If the Greys could be overwhelmed at the outset Tullibardine had the game in his hands, and he therefore rightly gave orders for the two Regiments of Scottish Horse, the 18th Hussars, and the two guns, to unite for the purpose of crushing the Emperor of Russia's Regiment. The Greys, on their side, were ordered by Lovat to effect a preliminary concentration with the Fife and Forfar Yeomen from Cupar, and this entailed a flank march in dangerous proximity to the main force of Red." It will be seen from this extract from the " Times" that Red had no easy task. Lord Tullibardine had asked for, and got, permission to get 20 H.L.I. signallers to form·:.:-the headquarters signallers for Red. It is,;the fortunes of these "waggers," and their share in the campaign, that will chiefly interest the Regiment. On the 13th of June, five days before the manceuvres, Lieut. Baird and three signallers proceeded to Faskally p"u 0" CAVALR'1' MANOEVVR.E.5 P E I\. T H, S H IRE :Tu .. ", "'IQ] _ ~ _ L~,",#l"t' fltovre,. -.... -....,. T""\lll, ..""~;",,,,,~., ,~.~:~'., ••.
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