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THE HISTORY OF "THE GREYS."
SCOTS REGIMENT'S GREAT RECORD.
"SECOND TO NONE."
The arrival of The Greys: at Edinburgh from a tour of foreign service recently coincided almost exactly with the 216th anniversary of the birth of the regiment.
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1927.
BRITISH VALHALLA
IDEA.
WESTMINSTER ABBEY AND ITS FUNCTIONS.
A MODERN CONCEPTION."
When, as at present, people are inclined to blame the old custodians of Westminster Abbey because they made it so difficult, without pew building, for us and for those It was on November 25, 1681, who will come after us to carry on the idea of Westminster Abbey that "a commission was issued to Thomas Dalyell, authorising him as a national Valhalla, we are. un- Just to this extent, that we forget to raise a regiment of dragoons, that the Valhalla or Pantheon later to be known by the name of iden, as we understand it, is com- The Scots Groya. Since then the paratively modern, says the Obser service of the regiment has justi- ver. Dean Stanley went into the fied its challenging motto, "Second whole question with affectionate to None, in itself a neat play on enthusiasm, and pointed out that, the regiment's, alternative title of till quite recently, no such iden had 22nd Dragoons,' The Greys been adopted deliberately any- fought under Marlborough at where. Great men of Rome were Blenheim, Ramillies, Oudenarde, laid to rest along the Appian Way, and Maiplaquet. On their stand-but there was no prescriptive or ards are borne also the battle exclusive right to such interment. honours "Dettingen," "Warburg," and Willems." They played a The Faris idea of the Pantheon noble part at Waterloo. In the was revolutionary, and continued Crimea, The Greys formed the for some time to afford a battle- bulk of "Scarlett's Three Hundred" ground for contending factions. in the ever-memorable charge of The building itself was projected the Heavy Brigade at Balaklava. to take the place of the old fane Another long spell of peace soldier- of St. Genevieve patroness and ing was broken by the South protectress of Paris-on the eve African War, in which The Greys of the Revolution, and the revolu- took part in the brilliant, cavalry tlonaries showed their respect for movements under French, which the gaint by breaking up her shrine led to the relief of Kimberley and and publicly burning her remains the the surrender of Cronje at Paarde- in the Place de Grave. To berg. In the Great War the re-church all Paris bore the body of giment served
throughout the Mirabeau to a resting-place con- whole struggle in France, gaining secrated by supreme decree, on the twenty-six honours, beginning spur of this time, into a Pantheon with Mons, in 1914, and conclud for the Great Men of the Fater- ing with the pursuit to Mons. in lund" ("Aux Grands Hommes de reconnaissante"). 1918, which was the fitting "cur de la Patrie tain" to the greatest war drama Thither went Rousseau and Volt- evër staged.
aire, to be cast forth again, accord- ing to report, with Mirabeau. Three times a 'Church, three times has Valhalla, the Pantheon known change enough.
Jemmy the Angel.
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At Ramillies, The Greys distin- guished themselves in the pursuit, when two battalions of the Regi- Ludwig of Bavaria's costly ro ment du Roi were overtaken by the production of the Parthenon at Scotsmen, who "broke in a la Regensburg, with its carefully hussarde, sword in hand, at ballotted niches for Germany's not gallop. killing or taking nearlyables, was modern conception. great all." After Malplaquet, Orkney The placing of busts of wrote of The Greys in a curious Italians in the Pantheon at Rome strain of admiration: "Jemmy was interrupted by the restoration Campbell, at the head of the grey of Pius VII. Stanley came to dragoons, behaved like an angel, the conclusion that Santa Croce at and broke through both lines." Florence could alone be compared
Breathes there a man with soul with our Abbey so dead as to gaze without a thrill
on
Inflexible Righteousness.
Elizabeth Thompson's "Scot-
We must remember that the land, for Ever?" It shows The Greys charging at Waterloo, in the Valhalla iden at Westminster grew Union Brigade, against Ney's very slowly, and almost by ac- volumus just checked by. Pack and cident. It was natural that Kings Picton. "On went the horse should be borne to the Abbey ann,"wrote Cruasy, "amid the Church from their palace at West- wr:cks
was this natural of the French columns, minster, and it capturing two eagles and two proceeding which gradually pro- thousand prisoners: onwards they duced the Valhalla idea, together Palloped and sabred the artillery with the allotting to Parliament)
the mecting-place within an of Bey's seventy-four ad- of a
of Westminster and the vane dyrunst, theng, severing the Palace
culting the throats of later, building. of the great Palace the artilery horse, they rendered of Whitehall hard by all tending on the Abbey Bher guns totally useless to the Lo concentrate Fresh throughout the remainder precincts. Yet, we shall find that of the day." The impetuosity of was some element of chance, for in the beginning of the turk east The Greys and the instance,
Corner. Chaucer. Was faller regiments dear, for when far Poets'
Beyond the British front and dis- buried in the Abbey, not because ordered by success, they were he was a great poet, but because charged by a large body of French he had been associated with the lancers and driven back. The Royal Householder, and there was agle displayed on the appoint- no idea whatever of making i ments of The Grges Commemorates special resting-place for poots with- the part played by them at Water in the Abbey,
100.
Rally, the Greys!"
Probably Stanley was right in thinking that the first beinaings of the Valhalla iden at West- A more desperate achievement minster сип be traced to the was the charge made by the Heavy Elizabethan
era. Spenser died Brigade at Balaklava, against hard by the Abbey, but in his case mass of
over 2,000 Russsian there was a deliberate idea of the cavalry. The Greys were in the burial of poetry with him, and front line with a squadron of their from that time dates the concep old comrades, The Inniskillings. tion of Poets' Corner, though with The Irishmen went in with ringing sonic notable omissions. It was cheers, The Greys with a low in the Elizabethan age that the moan of outbursting desire," which conception of the greatness of rose to yell of exultation when England. of her high destiny. the Russian mass was pierced.among nations, began to take hold How the regiment rallied actually of the imagination of the people, in the midst of the enemy's thick and the Abbey began to assume a set squadrons was a wonderful new character. achievement. But the shout,
"Rally, The Greys!" vociferated Even so, it is not certain that the by the adjutant, a man of gigantic Valhalla idea is completely accepted stature, and with a voice the range even now by those immediately of which was wont to be computed responsible for the Abbey. "The not by yards, but by the mile, authorities of the Abbey," in wrought the impossible. "Men Drinkwater'e tersa sentence, "re- tried to gather the best way they fused to receive Byron's body, as could in a throng, and, by facing they have ever since refused to ad- towards the adjutant, as the mit any memorial to him-so in- thunder of his voice had enjoined, flexible is righteousness." Nearly Frederick began to show the rudiments of a half-a-century later, front:" After the action Colin Locker records a significant con- with Dean Stanley Campbell galloped up. Uncover-versation ing, he thus addressed the regi- "About the same time I had been ment: "Greys! gallant Greys talking to Arthur" Stanley of the burials in the Abbey, and he told. me that there were certain people who, he sincerely hoped, would survive him, as, if not, he should
I am sixty-one years old, but were
I young again I should be proud to
be in your ranks."
A humbler tribute, but no less be obliged to refuse them burial real, is one revealed in a letter in the Abbey. The names of one from an infantry officer, during or two distinguished people were the Retreat from Mons in the mentioned, such as Carlyle Great War: "During the evening | Mill."
The Greys came by, after covering
the retreat of the brigade through-
out the day. They had experienced
and
much fighting and they looked men of the battalion leaped to their. war-worn, though in fue trim, us fcct, lined the roadside, and cheer. they filed by, their horses scrubbed ed The Greys again and again." with some wash to give them a This spontaneous tribute, from khaki appearance and thus leasen tired Infantry in retreat, to the their visibility. As they passed, cavalry that had been covering with many empty saddles showing them, means more than a whole the sacrifices they had made, the official despatch can ever convey.
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