HLI Chronicle 1910 - The Royal Highland Fusiliers

allowedTa much-needed month of rest at
Nagode; and by the time the force was broken
up in July the General was able to congratulate
his men on the fact that they had marched
nearly 3,000 miles.
After this Macduff returned to the command
of the brigade at BeUalY, but he remained
on the strength of the 74th till .:r.anuary,
1862, when he was appointed local Major­
General on the Bengal staff. In that capacity
he commanded the trol)ps in Oudh, and in
1862 his long and faithful services were rewaIded
with a C.B. In the following yeal
he was promoted Major-General, but in 1864
he had a severe attack of fever, and, his naturally
fine constitution having been shattered
by long service in bad climat.es, he was obliged
to resign his appointment.
He returned to New Mill, in Stlathord, the
residence of his elder brothel', Alexander, who
had for many years been factor to the Duke of
Atholl, and at New Mill General Macduff
died on the 25th of September, 1865, deeply
lamented by all who knew his many sterling
qualit.ies and his kindly and genial nature.
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BIG GAME SHOOTING.
A CORRESPONDENT at Monywa wlites to a
Rangoon paper that Captains Walker and
Pringle arrived at that station on the 15th inst.,
having left Calcutta on the 20th August, and
came across the Lushai and Chin Hills big
game shooting. They made a few days stay
at Monywa, and then came to Rangoon t,ill
Mandalay en route for Calcutta and back to
Lucknow, where they rejoin their Regiment.
The Officers had a trying expelience on the
march, and met with a good deal of wet weather,
which interfered with sport. The natives of
the intervening country are said to have been
very hospitable and friendly, and rendered
every assistanee in tracking game, supplying
commissaliat and baggage coolies, etc. The
sportsmen were none the worse for their travel
and wear and tear, though they may easily
have been mistaken for" Tommies" on, the
loose, with their tanned skins, discoloured
" khaki" dress, and general deshabille.-From
The Pioneer.
THE GALLANT H.L.I.
Brave Seventy-first and Seventy-fourth! let
no one e'er deny
The lads who wear the diced shako-the gallant
H.L.I. !
From many a field of st,oried fame, to earth's
remotest bound,
From Hindostan to sunny Spain your glorious
deeds resound.
In eighteen-hundred-and-fifty-two the noble
i H.L.I.
On board the troopship" Birkenhead," showed
soldiers how to die.
At Tel-el-Kebir, yet again, the gallant Seventy­
fourth-
Tho' mouming many a hero slain-still proved
their sherling worth.
On Magersfontein's fatal day, aye keen to do
or dare,
Still foremost in the deadly fray, the Seventyfirst
were there.
Brave Seventy-first and Seventy-fourth-aye
keen to do or die!
True heroes of the hardy NQ1th-the gallant
H.L.I.
JOHN MARTIN,
Ex·Sergt. "D" Company,
~- i 7lst H.L.I.
KILWINNING, 23rd Nov., 1909.
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