HLI Chronicle 1910 - The Royal Highland Fusiliers

HIGHLAND LIGHT INFANTRY CHRONICLE. 141
The health of the Company is O.K. Tricky
was had with fever for a month. He went sick every
TUel!day and came out of dock every Monday in time
te draw his pay. He has managed up to Manora.
"A."
" B" COMPANY.
THE Editerial "devil" has just swooped down-on
this the mail day-with the announcement that the
"Sub." wants notes. He nearly knocked me breathless-thought
he mcant the other commodity. I could
do with a few-" chip chats."
Owing te the monsoon derk continually letting
his bUTTa m~t8hack pour, little has been done in the
past quarter, and there is consequently less to chronicle.
Sports have had to be postponed, and the only noteworthy
athletic event won during the quarter was
the" Thousand Yards" (not 100) by L..CorpL Gouldie,
details of which appear elsewhere.
We are to have a Regimental Highland Gathering,
which assembly Company Highland dancers are
eagerly anticipating. But more anon!
The Inter-Half-Company Cup referred to in the
previous number has sinee been presented. It is
quite a nice production of the silversmith's art, and
now adorns the sideboard of the Sergeants' Mess.
In the League (2nd XL) at present running" B"
kept well in front, and were generally looked upon as
likely winners; but unfortunately sickness, and the
consequent npcessity of "budli-ing," has put them
back a couple of pegs, and I think" K" should just
about pull it.
We have just finished musketry under rather bad
weather conditions, and with disappointing results.
" Sandy" Morrow, who has scored as much as ;";6 in
rapid, did not in his classification get half that score
owing to a damaged bolt-head. Sergt. Gale, who is
invariably good for a 4 inch, got "one wide," Scrgt.
Lawrie was deposited in "dock," the "Flag" also
fell off, and too early in the course quite a number
of faint hearts sought consolation in the flowing bowl;
but, let it be said, that even with eu('h tragic occur·
rences, although we have not the be8,t we have by no
means the worst average. Fraser, who just missed
marksman, was this year again top scorer. " F."
" D" COMPANY.
To all past and present associates of letter" D," the
Company scribe once more begs their endurance for
such time as he takes to describe the various comedies,
tragedies, and one-act Bcenes which are staged in
the vicinity of "D's" bungalow, I"ucknow, during
the months of June, July, and August, in this year
of grace, 1910, with a high temperature daily. If you
will all show a degree of patience I will endeavour to
give you a short retrospect of our summer existence,
of course I cannot answer for our dear Company chums
who have the fortune to be in the land of bumps and
khud-climbing, so the "plain" wallahs will be my
Sllbjeet. Ta commence, we are weathering well, and
the Company has had an extremely healthy time of
it. Of course our Company Officer deserves all congratlllation8
for his judicious manner of administering
our dose of quinine tabloids-i.e., to be taken not before
shaken but before receiving the coveted dibs on paydays.
In the matter of sport we have done fairly
wen, and, as mentioned in our last notes, the football
cup for Company teams was just started. We met
" B " in the first round and beat them by 2 goals to 1.
Then in the sec.ond round" I " Company fell to us by
3 goals to nil-scored by Patterson, Palmer, and
Milne-so we entered the Final and met our near
neighbour, "F" Company, who ha.ve been great
athletio rivals with us for a few years, and honours have
been fairly equaL Everyone thought that we would
finish as winners, but such was not the case, as " F "
Company got rather a soft goal before the interval,
and equalise we could not, although having decidedly
the best of the game. The following played well,
and had hard lines in not winning the cup :-Pte.
Sinclair, Ptes. Black, Patterson, Campbell, L ..CorpL
Buchanan, Pte. Fegan, Bdsm. Carey, Pte. Palmer,
Corpl. Milne, Ptes. Patterson and J amiewn.
This quarter of which we wTite should be called
the monsoon quarter, as we have a good supply of
pani just now, and consequently the atmosphere is
fairly cool. The month of July saw us stage a thrilling
drama under the name of The New Course of Musketry
(50 rounds classification), preceded by our hardy
annual, Field Training, where scouting was of the
keenest description. To our surprise we could not
produ!'e a marksman at the finish of our firing, but
results on a whole were greatly to our satisfaction,
as we have a splendid Company average of 106.15,
which is 7 points ahead of all Compa.nies which
have fired to date, and we are the proud posseasors
of a nil return of third class shots-allfirsts and seconds
-so we hav6 had the advantage of the Army Council
for 1910 in regards t{) the pay department. Our Chief
Sanitary Inspector has a busy time of it just now
attending to his multifarious duties during the monsoons,
and reports that Dilkusha, Tombs, Neill, Cantonment,
and Lawrence roads are in a bad state. He
is grousing a tOTa because he has to do another sum·
mer in this land of milk and honey before proce