SEPTEMBER 1, 1939.
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d was crowned orning of April ister beaches of m Lancashire--- in and Munster into the vortex
enduring famé ashire Landing. he Inniskilling ers added fresh Iready standing jown. The first- the rare battle and. St. Lucia Lucia, in the of whose citadel so conspicuous h Abercromby feated garrison, buld lay down iskillings only," re the privileges characterise the Fusiliers. In full Fusilier Regi- of racoon fur, lightly smaller, he Guards.
Fusillers, how- tion peculiarly the form of a
rosette and | of black silk, the tunic collar; h some form of ed to spare the
bat by the then
tail.
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g these pigtails bular commands
my-was issued. Ich were on ser- g, eventually, to ered themselves. ed regiment left and the "flash"
commemorates.
e great pride in culiar to them- mid-eighteenth matters military
ment of
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egous honour of
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Welch brethren, and after the cloth the officers, ran wildly through the is taken away a bumper is filled round town, to the no small joy of the gar- to his Royal Highness the Prince of rison and populace!" Wales (whose health is always drunk first on that day), the band playing the tune of "The Noble Race of Shen- kin,' while a handsome drum boy, cle- gantly dressed, mounted on the goat, richly caparisoned for the occasion, is led thrice round the table in prôces- sion by the drum-major."
RIDER THROWN ON TABLE It is interesting to note that only on one occasion did the exuberance of the regimental mascot prove detri- mental to the solemn prosecution of these ceremonious proceedings. This was at Boston in 1775, when "the ani- mal gave such a spring from the floor that he dropped his rider on the table, and then, bouncing over the heads of
ceded by a goat adorned with a Every 1st of versary of their the Officers give hent to all their
It might be added that such was the number of extra battalions raised for service by this gallant regiment dur- ing the Great War that the business of demobilising its innumerable goats became later on a matter of consider- able trouble and embarrassment,
Nowadays, certain of the Fusilier regiments have against had to demon- trate their adaptability by turning themselves into machine-gun units. But whether with machine-gun, rifleį or bayonet-and with this last-named weapon the Fusiliers were the first British practitioners-the erstwhile guardians of "the fireworkers" may safely be relled upon to give a re- markably good account of themselves.
THE BEE KEEPING SQUAD. Poultry farming and bee-keep- ing is included in the school curriculum at the village school at Wit- liton, Somerset. Boys are shareholders of the poultry farm that they run there and when they leave their share money is redeem- able.
Photo shows not a decontamination squad-but boys of the village school at Williton attending to the hives.
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