HLI Chronicle 1910 - The Royal Highland Fusiliers

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80 HIGHLAND LIGHT INFANTRY CHRONICLE. Scotland to France, in the reign of J ames VI. (1st of England), to assist Henry IV. in his wars with the Leaguers, and was constit,uted a Regiment in Jamary, 1633. Returned from the Continent in 1661, and obtained rank in the British Army from that date. Styled the" Royal Regiment" in 1684. Divided into 1st and 2nd Battalions in 1686. In 1804, the 1st and 2nd Battalions being in the West Indies, 3rd and 4th Battalions were embodied at Hamilton, near Glasgow. In 1812 styled "1st Regiment, or Royal Scots." In 1821 changed to "1st, or the Royal Regiment of Ji'oot." During the Peninsular and Waterloo campaigns this Regiment therefore had four Battalions serving in different parts of the world. In some of them there were many Scotsmen; but we will confine ourselves to the 3rd Battalion, as it alone served in the Peninsula and at Waterloo. The other Battalions were then in the East and West Indies. By the Regimental Record Book for the 3rd Battalion, from 1804 to 1817, the names of 1087 men are recorded, viz. : 197 Scots, 404 English, 464 Irish, 22 Foreigners. The different Battalions served in every campaign. 21sT NORTH BRITISH Ji'USILIERS. This Regiment was raised in 1678, and was numbered the 21st in 1694. A 2nd Battalion was raised in 1804, in the counties of Ayr and Renfrew, and was dishanded at Stirling in 1816. We could not find any Regimental Record Book. This Regiment did not serve in the Peninsula nor at Waterloo, but suffered severe},r in the Washington and New Orleans campaigrls of 1814-15. . 25TH KING'!'> OWN BORDERERS. The early history of this Regiment we are not in possession of. The Regimental Record Book for the 1st Battalion is only from 1808 to 1816. There are entered 344 Scots, 613 English, 506 Irish, 37 Foreigners. Of the foreigners, 14 were negroes, as officers' servants, the Battalion having heen many years in the West Indies. 2nd Battalion.-The Record Book for this Battalion is from 1806 to 1816, and there are entered 576 Scots, 639 English, 288 Irish, 8 Foreigners. Most of the Scotsmen in both Battalions were from Edinburgh, the Lothians, and Botder counties. Neither of the Battalions served in the Peninsula, nor at Waterloo, but were in Egypt, &c. 26TH OAMERONIANS. For this Regiment no Record Book could be found. They served in Egypt and at Corunna, on whch latter occasion they were brigaded with the 3rd Battalion Royal Scots. Not engaged in the Peninsular (1809-14) and Waterloo campaigns. 70TH REGIMENT. In 1758 the 2nd Battalion of the 31st Regiment was numbered the 70th. It was then stationed in Scotland, and the facings were liglJt grey. As it contained in the ranks many Scotsmen, they were commonly called the Glasgow Greys. In 1768 the facillgs were changed to black. In 1782 called the Surrey Regiment. In 1812 called the Glasgow Lowland Regiment. In 1823 again called the Surrey Regiment. They were stationed in British America during the American war. Present at the capture of Martinique in 1794, and Guadaloupe in 1810. No Regimental Record Book could be found. 90TH PERTRSHIRE VOLUNTEERS. Raised, we believe, in 1794, by Mr. Thomas Graham, of Lynedoch, Pel'thshire, afterwards General Lord Lynedoch. By the Regimental Record Book, there appear to have been enlisted, up to 1812 538 Scots, 1097 English, 486 Irish, 23 Foreigners. As these numbers give a total of 2144, doubtless both Battalions are included. A good many Welsh are put down aB English.
HIGHLAND LIGHT INFAN'l'RY CHRONICLE. 81 The Regiment saw a good deal· of service, but was not engaged in the Peninsular and Waterloo campaigns. The foregoing are the Lowland Regiments, and the particulars given prove that they never sustained the same national standard as the Highland did. However as alreadv stated, Lowlanders, more or les; in numbe~, were to be found in almost every Regiment in the service. ' Who is He JUST carry back your butt, and keep quiet, and you'll find th at out in due time. Meantime our mind is engaged with what some folks ca' "the good old days." As our mind goes back to those days we must confess it's now a long time ago, and as we think and see and mark and note largely, and compare the long-ago past with the present state of military things, we find ourselves quietly saying-" Good old days I certainlv did enlist far too soon." There are many r~asons for co~ing to that conclusion, even although, accordmg to the "age clause," in our case, stands the-Impossible. There is a reason: wandering thoughts and impossible conclusions have been so often repeated that if we were again to repeat them the older hands, and even the youngsters now serving, would say- "There's that auld sodger at it again." To prevent that, we will content ourselves by saying-" Ye ken a' aboot it !" That's not chalking you off, is it However, there is one thing we will venture to say, and with perfect confidence, and that is that there still lives-ay, and flourishes - still bearing good fruit, and will stand the most rigorouB examination (it lived in the ranks of the old corps in those" good old days," and, like good wine, the longer it lives, age only improves it in its flavour)-- "Come now, what are you twisting round corners for Out with it, and tell us what you are aiming at." Here you are, grip it, learn it, and seek ittrue comradeship and friendship's link that only death can snap. We have lived in it, and seen it-again and again gripped the hand of old comrades. Not with pump-handle, cold-iron shake. Oh, no ! but the true warm grip which said, "Man, bit I'm richt glad tae see ye." The old comrades are fast crossing the line. Those we hob-nob bed with in the old longlong-ago days we can count now on the fingers of one hand. There are still some living who gladly shout" Haud on a wee, Geordie," and as they come up they say laughingly "I wud be a puir hand at skirmishing noo." Yet the link is there and lives in full force; and those who have crossed the border-line in a sense still live. As we look at the photo grollp the old heart warms to the well-known friendly faces. As we turn away saying "Ay, Jock, Andra', Auld Tam," and other well-remembered faces, we add" You were true blue." We have been thinking of friendship's link with comrades in the regiment, company, or section; but when memory goes back to the higher grades among these -and on tha'b ground we include the whole- was thele such a thing as friendship there Without halting a moment we say "Yes." A friendship in a sense differing from that, " In comrades all," we admit we can hardly defineonly this, it was a friendship striatly guarded with respect. Said a civilian acquaintance one day, "Who's that smart, well-set up gentleman you just saluted" "He is one of Ours." There is a big bundle in that one sentence. There is a big inclination to call the roll in pen fashion, but then we would have to begin at the first and wind up with the last. Let just two touches suffice. A small group of recovered wounded men were permitted to go and meet the regiment as they were nearing the station from the field of fight. Those mounted and those on foot had only one sentence to say, and that with a smile of true pleasure-" I am so glad to see you again on foot." There was in that one sentence "full measure, pressed down, and running over." Then this, " You should not have brought my name in so often." And the reply-" All wh'o knew you in the old days, and who know YOll still, how else can they but esteem you" That true abiding friendship from right to left of the old corps lived in "the good old days," and still lives in the present. Does it still live in t.he old corps Yes. See-" We are all 7lst men in this room, and you are an old corps man; ye'll bide an' hae tea with us." Does it still live What say you But who is "He" If you will still wait, perhaps we may, in a kind of way, be able to tell you who "He" is. Let this suffice for the present. My first C.O. was Colonel Camp bell. He led the regiment in all the fights during the Indian Mutiny, and with the regiment sat down at ease after the Battle of Morar. Meantime, howeV'er, it is with our
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