UGUST 29, 1939
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TS FOR THE “LINGIAD”-A team of boy gymnasts, representing the National Associa- took part in the Ling Centenary celebrations In Stockholm, Sweden, The “Lingiad” was ag of Sweden and had representatives from all parts of the world for Ling was in many f gymnastic, and scientific exercise. Photo shows a study of health and fitness as boys line of various exercise they performed in Sweden. A picture at the camp of the Oxford lub at Sevenoaks, Kent.
ryman to attain owed to his own and his Commander's gave us one world-famous figure in
and establish dignity solemnly to salute Sir Samuel Lord Roberts, V.C. fficers to com- Auchmuty with the one sound hand ms in the field, remaining as he passed.
But, five years later, the invention of the breech-loading gun brought about an improvement in the efficien- cy of the artillery arm which was des- tined to revolutionise not only that arm itself, but the whole process of waging war.
and encourage
Victory at Waterloo owed as much stic musicians to the stout-hearted work of the Ar- arnation, were tillery as to the indomitable solidity orldwide fame of the Infantry, Spaced out between
Band.
the rigid red-coated linesmen, and
The varying nature of the demands UR COLOURS" firing their pieces until the last possi- e the Infantry, ble moment, as the enemy cavalry on their support had already subdivid- eguns are our came surging up to the bristling hedge ed the Gunners intó Horse, Field, vaunt or the of.bayonets, the blue-coated Gunners Mountain and Garrison Artillery; the arme have brought ran swiftly for the shelter of the first for cooperation with the "in such pro- squares, bowling
gun-wheels blanche-"Where the Cavalry go, the to dart Horse-Gunners go, too!"the second e proud Silk to nimbly before them-only
of For although forth again to the service their for close support of the Infantry; the truly, described pieces at the first sign of ebbing in third for difficult work in such gruel-
ling terrains-de-campaign antry General," the persistent tide of onslaught.
to the ubiqui- The years of peace that followed North-West Frontier of India; and the anners and driv- Waterloo found work of a very dif- last to man the "guns of position” In cohesive whole, ferent stamp awaiting the attention of our coastal fortresses and provide the fed many of the one member of the Royal Regiment. personnel for weapons of heavy cali-
lost ield.
rman
their
spectacular and his labours in the cause of pos- bre in the field.
our terity should be the subject of
as the
To these must nowadays be added
his Section, so significant a factor in the con- provision against aerial offence.
de Onoro, for gratitude to this day. For it is to the highly important Anti-Aircraft
from Ramsay, William Mudge, deflected press of enemy normal activities, to what was ugh
the tight sidered the backwater of the Trigono- ught to hem him metrical Survey, that we
The R.HA, may always be known owe the by their assumption, in full dress, of a busby and uniform very similar to
ng fire, stretched magnificent Ordnance Maps which are
the plain," the the unfailing standby of every motor-, that of the Hussars. For their gallant ying about them ist and hiker in the land. heir sabres, and
conduct at the reduction of Martinique, CHANGES IN WAR TACTICS in the mid-18th century, the No. 11 tossing like The Crimean campaign was fruitful Company R.G.A. received as a mark f the straining of few laurels. But the men of the of honour a battle-axe, which it was nd thrashed their Artillery-stoically serving 800 directed should always be carried by he dire threat of pieces they had managed to concen- the tallest gunner at the head of the
trate, old-fashioned sponge and ram- battery on parade. mer in hand-froze and starved, swore
ld fair to over-
be grudged for
of Java, stump-
his battery with
a cannon shot, se of what
he
the
BATTERY'S THREE V.C.s and grinned and bore it with the same The tremendously accelerated rate indomitable quality of endurance as of fire which the next half-century characterised their unflinching com- was to see the Artilleryman develop rades of the Cavalry and Foot.
culminated in rendering his interven- tion the determining factor on every battlefield on which his services were seriously engaged.
The Artillery of the Indian Mutiny
By George McManus
SAYS SHE HAS AN TANT DATE AND T BE BACK 'TIL E-WHAT WILL WE
O NOW ?
7.14
WE DON'T HAVE TO DO ANYTHING AS LORD WORTHNOTTEN JUST CALLED UP AND SAID THAT HIS SON SNEAKED'OUT~
'South Africa, for all the clusive target presented by the Boer, was a valuable "dress rehearsal” for the leading role the Gunners were destin- ed to play in the Great War years. Hundreds have read of the immortal fight put up by "L" Battery, R.H.A., against a whole German Cavalry Di- vision, `with ́ ́its full complement of artillery, at Nery during the retreat
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