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DEPARTURE FOR INDIA TO-DAY
It in an army tradition that when. there is any shifting camp to be done the authorities are bound to pick out a wet day for it. Even for eo exalted a personage an the late G.O.C. the rule was not varied. He went off to his homebound last week in a steady drizzle and the skies were weeping again this morning when the Zad. Battalion of the Wiltshires left for India by
the 8.8. Himalaya." Colonel Wyndham and his men sve left many friends behind them in Hongkong and in sporting circles especially will they be missed. Below we publish some interesting details of the Battalion's history
REGIMENT'S HISTORY.
FORMA VISIT TO HONGKONG.
The present 2nd. Battalion of the Wiltshire Regiment was raised in 1824 the 99th. Lanarkshire of Foot Boon after being formed the Regiment was dispatched to Maunuus and served in that island with a detach- tent of Seychelles until 1837 when it was relieved and sent home. Five years later it went to Australia as guard over the convict settlements of
new South Wajes where it remained
to
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violent blizzard which caused the loss of many of the wounded who might otherwise have been saved. In this attack the Battalion lost sixteen cffi- cars and 363 other ranks.
the
In June the Battalion was in the Ypres sector and on July 81, at the commencement of the third battle of Ypres,
Wiltshire Regiment assaulted the enemy's position at Stirling Castle and captured all their objectives; but the complete break- down of the weather had rendered the battle zone practically impassable and the great attack planned to drive back the enemy from the Belgian coast fizzled out-stuck fast in the mud of Flanders!
LOCAL PIRACY,
FISHING JUNK ROBBED.
A fishing junk with fourteen people aboard was on its way from Potoi to Hongkong on Monday night when a two masted junk which came from the direction of Lammis Island fired at it and made it stop. Several armed men came aboard and the skipper, taking no chances, jumped into the water and swam to his brother's jauk which was some distance behind. When he last saw his boat it was being towed off by the pirates but since then it has returned to Aberdeen and reported the loss of over $100 worth of property.
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
Two cases of diptheria and one of cerebro spinal fever, all Chinese, were reported yesterday.
hostile machine gun fire swept over the leading waves of the attacking infantry the moment they left their trenches, and the attack was abortive, Documents captured later showed that the enemy had ascertained the exact hour 6.30 p.m. of the infantry awault, which had enabled them to remain in their deep dugouts during the liminary bombardment, and to come up and line the trenches at the re- quired moment, (Casualties: officers, four killed and five wounded; other tanks, 25 killed, 127 wounded.)
After a short period of reconstruc- tion and training the Battalion was nexe in the line at Richebourg l'Avoue in July, and subsequently in the Givenchy sector until relieved to take In September the Battalion was in part in the Battle of Loos on the line on the Messines Ridge, and September 25. On this occasion was employed in this sector and the the Allies, taking & leaf and Ireland and then it proceeded to of the enemy's book, used poison when the 30th. Division was trans- out Ypres salient until early in 1918, Gibraltar. It was still there when the great war broke out in 1914.
gas for the
first time, but it ferred to the Fifth Army and went i was none too successful, and after an south into the line uear St. Quentin. initial success on the first day the ad- Lieutenant-Colonel Martin had relier vance petered out. Lieut. Colonel ed Lieutenant-Colonel Gillson in Lestham (attached from the York- December, 1917, and was in command shire Regiment), who had accumed on March 21, 1918, when the Battalion, command of the Battalion in June, bolding the line at St. Quentia, ex-meeting of the Hongkong Hotel Co., The second extraordinary general The 2nd. Pattalion, commanded was killed in this action, which lasted perienced the full force of the great Ltd., takes place on Friday, February by Lieut. Colonel Forbes, having been for several days, and other casualties German offensive which the enemy 17, instead of the 18th, hurriedly brought home from Gib amounted to officers killed, nine; hoped would finish the war in their raltar on the outbreak of war, formed wounded, five; other ranks, billed, favour. The Battalion was holding part of the 21st. Brigade of the 7th, wounded, and missing. 400.
the forward zone by a system of will be Division, which landled in Belgium at Zeebrugge on October 7, 1914. An Givenchy sector followed until the morning fog, the first waves of the Trench warfare in the Quinchy and redoubts when, aided by the early attempt was made to relieve Antwerp, early days of December, when the German infantay advanced to the but further German forces appearing 21at. Brigade was transferred from assault. Undeterred by the intense on the flank necessitated a quick the 7th. Division change to avoid being cut off, and the Division, and joined them on the to its alattered trenches and inflicted from January 28 to 31 inclusive. to the 30th. bombardment, the Battalion clung has declared holidays for the period Division mads rapid march towards Samme in the neighbourhood of Bray, Y tes, where it turned and faced the The Battalion spent the following six
OD tho German Consequently the Canton Times will enemy. The holding of that line was months in the trenches at Carnoy and
were not appear between those dates. one of the finest things done in the Maricourt until July 1, 1916, which war, the enemy believing, from the was the first day of the great Allied stoutness of the defence and the offensive on the Somme. Successful terrible losses they sustained from the in this rector, troops of the 30th. and rapid rifle fire opened on them, that other Divisions occupied Montauben
GREAT WAR PERIOD.
REGIMENT'S FINE RECORD.
terrible losses
infantry,
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but the odds hundred to
une, And there could be but one result: the German waves continued to roll up, and in the end the Battalion was overwhelmed, and lost 22 officers and over 600 other rauka, very few escaping to tell the at least two Army Corps were in front on the first day, and a considerable tale. Later on the remnant of the of them. Fortunately, that British advance was made. Sharp fighting Battalion helped to form a composite Division was composed entirely of followed, and well-seasoned troops, and they hit Allies attacked again in the direction line near Kemmel in support of the on July 8 the battalion, which in April was in the back with terrible effect bolding on of tuillemont.
French, who were being hard pressed.play, (Service) Battalion joined the 2nd. In May the majority of the 6th
left the 30th. Division to join the Battalion, and the Battalion so forme
and
This village
WAS
19th. Diviioa,
Subsequently the 19th. Division was to assist in the defence of Rheims and seat South to the Champagne district came under the command of the Frnoh, and here Major Rapson, whe had commanded since March, handed over to Major Shepherd until relieved by Lieutenant-Colonel Lord Alexander Thynne, of the Royal Wiltshire Yeo-
manry.
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to their precarious entrenchments covered by Trones Wood and the until reinforced by British cavalry; Maltz Hon Farm, both strongly but а trenches at Berelsere, held by the wire. Several attacks had failed terrific shelling of the entrenched and full of barbed two advanced Battalions of the 21st. when the 2nd. Wiltshire Regiment Brigade (2ad. Wiltshire Regiment and was ordered up to the assault, and, 2nd. Royal followed on October 24 by the attack across the 400 yards of open ground Scots Fusiliers) was under a hail of balleta, they charged of a whole German Division, and the which intervened and dashed into for many years. The period of duty Battalion, after a gallant fight, was the wood shooting or bayonetting in Australia was broken by a period utterly overwhelmed and practically those Germans who did not surrender, of force fighting in New Zealand destroyed. Their resistance was not and taking hundreds of prisoners, during the Maori War of 1845-6. in vain, for the enemy's losses com- Repented countor attacks faded The 99th. returned home in 1866 and pelled them to abandon their attempt dislodge them, though suffering two years later sailed for India, being to break through and on November 5 heavily both in the assault and in the
Why is it that one person catches stationed in Bengal. In 1860 & the 7th. Division was withdrawn from German shell fire after success. Lieut.
cold on the slightest provocation hilb Soon after British expedition was fitted out and the line after relief by the lat and Colonel Gillson, who had assumed arrived in the neighbourhood of without contracting a chill f
the Battalion had another can undergo all sorts of ax posure and changes of temperature dispatched to bring the Chinese 2nd Army Corps, having suffered command in November of 1915, wa: Epernay the expected Government
The
answer is to be found in the German for the close on 10,000 casualties-a sufficient wounded, cruelties
condition of the system. Thin bloodied practised by
other casualties offensive was launched and on May 28 people take veld easily. They need a the indication of the mature of the fight | amounted to eleven officers killed and the Battalion took part in a successfalt nie to strengthen the body to resist Chinese on Europeans, and
the it had put up. During this battle the wounded, and 200 other ranks, which counter attack, which alter severe violation of treaties, and the Battalion lost 28 Officer 650 other wa 59th.
A cold that bangs on for weeks and Foot was included in the ranks, and only one officer and 254 important results obtained.
small compared with the fighting resulted in the recovery of the stubbornly resista ordinary remedies small army that ielt india for the Far other ranks remained available for Battalion won high praise for the
The ground previously lost.
may prove the entering wedge for east early in that year. The 99th. duty.
The Battalion remained in serious illness such a cold generally were engaged in the storming of the
vigour of their attack and Champagne attached to the 6th. results in loan of weight, thinning of the Afterwards the Battalion was with their
bloud Taku Forts, the defear of the Lumsas drawn from the Ypres ares, and to
and tenacity in bolding
and general weakness. on French Army until in August the 19th. This condition emphatically calls for the position army in the field and the alege and was engaged in trench warfare in the gained, and they were able, by the the Germans were slowly retiring
they had Division moved north of Choques where a tonic to
build red Blood will up the blood. Rich, capture of Peking including the loot Ploegsteart and Fleurbaix sectors capture of the Maltz Horn trench, to under pressure.
tone up the votire ing of the Emperor's Sunder ce until March 1915 when they were sasist greatly our French allies who Battalion and the whole Division re-
strengthen the nerves and give Before leaving the bo and vigour to the body. After the capture of Peking, the relieved by the Canadians prior to the simultaneously attacked on the right ceived the thanks and the congratula-hitford of No. 2 Paris Street, Begin trestment at once with the non- Bactalion was stationed at Hongkong, attack
* bolic tonic which Mr. Walter one company being employed against March
Chapelle on of the Wiltshire Regiment.
tions of the French Commander- Everett, Mass, endorses. Its name is as the Aarping cobois in the neighbour-expected from
Great things were On July 23 the 21st. Brigade again in-chief for the gallant and able well known to you as to the people of hood of brangusi.
this, tbe Irst attacked Guillemont, but without assistance they Allowards it attempt on a large scale to force success, and were then withdrawn Allies when hard pressed.
America where this gentleman lives. had given our I want to Japan where it was engaged a gap in the German lines, but the from the Somme area for reconstruc into the line in front of Hinges, from week to week until I began to de
Going
caught a severe cold last fall" kaya Mr. Whitford, and it bung on in the defence of the Treaty Forte, result was disappointing: little head-tion
they returning to Bagland in 1869.
succession of pair of getting rid of
of it. I suffered a way was made, and the Battalion mert term of foreign service was in suffered severely, seven officers and attacked in the neighbourhood of Lieutenant-Colonel Lord Alexander and could not sleep well. There was a They soon returned, and in October, advances during which operations coral break-down in health and was
tired and languid. I lost buuth Ainica, embarking in 1878 and 58 other ranks Leing killed, and Flers, on which occasion tanks were Thynne was killed.
my appetite serving at Lue Caps and Natal. eleven officers and 210 other ranks used in action for the first time. now
The Battalion, pain in my back and I felt sick all over, The hegent took part in the Zulu wounded, including Captain Gilson, Casualties in these operations were Colonel Beaver, remained in the take them. In a short time I began to commanded by Lieutenant A friend recommended Dr. Willieur pick Was of 1879, and is December of who had assumed command of the heavy and the Battalion lost fourteen neighbourhood of La Bassee Canal regain my strength. My appetite im
got some and began to tuur year the Battalion Bailed Battalion just prior to the attack. lor Bermudas. Two years later it re-
officers and 350 other ranks from all until October when the final advance proved in a few days and Dow I feel turned to the Cape where in 1881 in the Laventie sector ensued, and in
A further period of trench warfare cauzas.
having bear commenced the 19th, even better than I did before I had the
cold. I strongly urge any no in need? It was linked with the 62nd. Legiment May the Battalion took part in the was transferred to the sector south of brai.
After this action the 30th. Division Division pushed forward to the Cam- of a toniu to try Dr. Williams' Link Be the 2nd. Baitalion of the Luke of attack at Festubert. In this san- Arras, and had remained there until advance was ordered and the Battalion ple are sold by medicine dealers every-
On November 4, a general pills
Dr. Williams pink pills for pale peo- Bamburgh's (Willae fegument). guinary battle the losses were again Easter Monday, April 9, 1917, the attacked and captured the high ground where, also scad post free, $1.50 per in co the battalion proceeded to Aula where it remained until ordered obtained, no great impression being heroism displayed by the troops in Eth
revere compared with the results first day of the Battle of Arras. The in front of Eth, and later in the day bottle, 8 for six bottles, by buu, u „bờɔ̃, and when the South) msde
captured with many
Williams Medicine Co., As good for on the enemy's defence this battle was beyond all praise, the prisoners. an War broke out in 1899 it was (casualties: one officer killed and Wiltshire Regiment advancing over tinued and by November 11- The advance was cop-
woolen as for mon. of back to the Cape. It won three wounded 21 other ranks killed open country tight up to the enemy's Armistice Day-the Division great aceast for ns qistinguished and 126 wounded)...
entrepchmenis, only to find the barbed greatly reduced in numbers owing where it remained for several months St. Leger and Les Domart, by Quing the campaign and in Abteturned the Loned King: Fattalion attacked, with Chapella St. fore impossible. Digging in on the the
Again, at Givenchy, on June 15, the wire uncut and further progress there- to casualties inourred during
Gnat Successful
and demobilisation was carried out, d. 1912 it served in England Koche as their objective, But blasts of ground captured, they then endured a and the second battalion moved to
advance, the headquarter cadre eventually
reaching England in March, 1919.
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