Historical records of the New Brunswick Regiment, Canadian Artillery

—214 HISTORICAL RECORDS OF THEby ex-Mayor Peters to perform an unusual service for militiacorps, that of presenting to a church the colors of a regimentthat they might be laid at rest. Mr. Peters was in possessionof the colors of the ist Battalion St. John Light Infantry, anddesired to have them placed in St. Paul's church. The eventcannot be better described than by the following extract fromthe * Daily Sun ' newspaper of the next day:"At sharp half-past two yesterday when the battalion assembledin the drill shed there was the best of weather—^a littlehot and dusty, perhaps, but tempered now and again with acool breeze. The battalion fell in with Lieutenant-ColonelArmstrong in command, and Major Jones appeared for thefirst time in his new rank. In the absence, through illness,of Captain Crawford, Captain White took charge of No. icompany with Lieutenant B. R. Armstrong as subaltern. No. 2company (Carleton) was under command of Captain Baxter,with Lieutenants Tilley and Scovil ; No. 3, under CaptainGordon, with Lieutenant Foster ; and No. 4, under CaptainArmstrong, with Lieutenants Jones and Skinner. On thestaff were Quartermaster Gordon, Surgeon Andrews and anumber of the retired officers of the City Light Infantry whosecolors were to be presented, and also retired officers of theartillery. Among them were : A. A. Stockton, M. P. P., CaptainCharles Campbell, Lieutenant W. Roxborough, CaptainJ.Alfred Ring, Lieutenant McKinney and Captain A. W.LovETT. Major Markham, of the 8th Cavalry, and Major A.J.Armstrong, of the district staff, and Majors Sturdee,Hartt and Magee, with Surgeon Walker, Rev. Fr. Davenport,chaplain, and Lieutenant Macmichael, of the 62nd, alsoattended on the staff.On the Barrack square the battalion was drawn up in linein two ranks, and at 3 o'clock the color party, from No. 3company, appeared with the colors guarded by fixed bayonets.They were received with a general salute and the colors takenover by Lieutenants Tilley and Foster, the senior subalterns onparade. The band played Auld Lang Syne and the NationalAnthem.The battalion then marched in fours from the left of companies.