HLI Chronicle 1910 - The Royal Highland Fusiliers

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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
142 HIGHLAND LIGHT INFANTRY CHRONICLE. won the wooden spoon with little difficuly although, mind you, he became a first class shot' and he didn't fire at corn-beef cans, " Bhoy_" ' At the time of writing we have a 2nd XI. Football League ~n ~rogress, but we are making a sorry display, as our Jumors have been on the losing side on all occasions, generally getting beat by a goal; but the " captain," Stewart, says they will "break their duck," and win one of the remaining matches. THREE- QUARTER. "F" COMPANY. THE first item of interest that occurred after the submission of my last notes was our grim struggle with that wonderful" New Course of Musketry." We finished not so bad, our average of 99 being the best up to the time we fired; but this has since been beaten by " D" Company with 106. Pte. M'Farlane's score (our only marksman) of 155 has not yet been beaten. Next I come to the Inter-Company Football Cup. In the 1st round, after a very interestiner game we disposed of the holders (" A" Company) by'2 goals to O. The semi-final found us against" G" Company, whom we managed to bet by 4 goals to nil. This brought us to meet" D" Company in the final, and as Kennedy, our centre forward, had been admitted to hospital we were generally expected to lose; but by a good. if fairly lucky, effort Horsley scored the only goal of the match, securing for " F" Company the much-coveted cup and badges. Team-White; Gorman and Collins; Gallacher, Horsley, and Groundwater; M'Lennon and King, Horsley, Clayton and Champion. In the monthly sports for June the Company showed to very great advantage. Kane took 1st in the hurdle race, and followed this up with 3rd in the half-mile Corpl. Shaw gaining first place. Our guard-mounting team (L.-Corpl. Atkins, Ptes. Mills, Wiseman, and Tait) got first place in that competition. In the Sergeants' race the Colour-Sergeant got third place, and" Donald " ran a dead heat with" Jock Brown" for last. Chisholm appeared in a new role when he secured second place in putting the shot. I now come to the tit-bit of the evening-namely, the tug-of-war. "Donald" made up for his poor display in the sergeants' race by coaching (I don't think) our team to victory in the final. In the first and semi-final rounds we met" K " and "I " Companies respectively, but in neither of these pulls nor in the final was our team brought to the centre line. This is the third time in succession that" F" Company has won the Inter-Company Tug-of-War, which is quite a good performance. In the Rugby League we tied wit.b "A" ~nd "H" Companies for third place, whICh was qUite good for our first season at this game. In the July sports we had not a bad share of the spoil. We were unplaced in the relay race and the dog race; we, however, got second in the tent striking competition. In the hammer-throwing M'Geechan got first and Chisholm second. In the quarter mile open to the Garrison Corpl. Shaw secured first place and Kane got second. The novices' 1000 yards was won by L.-Corpl. Gouldie of " B" Company, with Moore, Dewitt, and Lorimer of "F" Company winning the other prizes. The Band race resulted in a win for Bandsman Horsley, who also belongs to the Company. As I am leaving the station shortly I will have to hand over my notes for someone else to finish. J. R. K. As our correspondent has gone to form one of the " scrum" in the Rugby team at Calcutta, I have been asked to take over Company reporting, so prepare for the agony. The Company, has done splendidly since the last issue, winning the Company Football Cup. We whacked " G" Company in the semi-final by 4.0 and "D" Company (better known as the "Silver: smiths ") by 1-0 in the final. Now comes the tale of the monthly sports (who said" F" Company's extra pay day). We did splendid in the first sports. We won five firsts, two seconds, and one third. Pte. Kane, our timber-notcher, won the hurd.les in splendid style from a field of about 40. L.-Corpl. Atkins (.)ur -ightingale) :w.ith his merry men won the guard.mount. Ing competitIOn. Corpl. Shaw won the half-mile handicap from scratch, with Pte. Kane second off 4 yards. Piper Chisholw gave a good account of himself in putting the shot, b~t could not beat The Douglas, ~o had to be c~mtent With second. Bandsman Horsley, In company With Mrs. Stokey, won the nomination race. Mrs. Stokey manipulated the needle, whilst Jock supplied the speed part of the programme. Our Colour Sergeant made a splendid show in the above, first nearly.knocking the lady off the chair, and the lady forgetting what hand she used the needle with. Well, they were numbered amongst the "also ran." Our Colour-Sergeant made a better show in the Sergeants' race, getting third, being beaten only by superior speed (but wait till he gets his 1st I). We again won the tug-of-war. There is nothing to say about this event, as we were scarcely stretched. Between the sports we had a Rugby League. We finished third-not so bad considering it was our first attempt. Better luck next time. In the following sports our colours were again prominent in the front, Corpl. Shaw winning the quarter mile open to the Garrison, with Pte. Kane second. Pte. M'Geechan won the hammer with a throw that would have made Cameron turn pale. Piper Chisholm was second. In the 1000 yards for novices we supplied second, third. and fourth, the heroes being Ptes. Moore, Jewitt. and Lorimer. Mickie said he " micht hae been first if his biler hidna burst." Bandsman H)rsley again gave his brother musicians a lesson on how not to lose races, Piper Chisholm being second. We got second in the tent-pitching-thanks to Willis' training as a coster. We are busy in the middle of a 2nd Division Football League, and have done well up till now, having played 4, won 3, and lost 1. More power to your feet, Nosey! I must close now, assuring all old Company pals whose eyes may alight on this scroll that the Company is in a healthy condition, and sighing for more country to conquer. " LIGHT BLUE." "G" COMPANY. IN the monthly sports for June and July our star was not in the ascendant. Sad to relate, we were entirely unsuccessful, with the exception of Pte. Paul's "Charlie" winning the dog race and one of the Company punkah coolies winning the native wrestling competition. As foreseen in the last issue, we were not as good as we might have been at football. After beating" F" Company in the first round we were in turn beaten by " F" Company in the second round, who won thl' cup outright. The Rugb) League has come and gone, but we are not the holders of the League, though no fault could be found with our players, who had not handled a rugby ball in their lives, with about two exceptions. We are at present interested in a 2nd XI. Football League, and we. will find, without doubt, that we have some gooc1 players who are not included in our Company team.
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