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GLORIOUS HISTORY OF THE "SKINS"
EXPLOITS IN MANY LANDS
"We stand upon our guard and do
resolve, by the blessing of God, to meet our danger rather than to expect i." With these words the settlers of Inniskilling (Kathleen's Island) set out to meet their
fors. They marched 40 miles in two days before they met the trained troops of James II, themselves but Half- trained, if that, but inspired by an ideal, that of freedom of conscience.
They were hard, Indomitable stuff, lose settlers, Scots from the Border and men of Devon. Drawn closely together by the dangers that sur- rounded their settlement, the men of Innlakilling took up arms and du- feated their focs in martial array on several ocensions before they were formed into u
into a regiment, which was subsequently numbered 27.
This happened in 1000, in the midst of the warfare raging in Iry- land. So well did they progress in skill-al-arms and the exercise of Inborn soldierly quality, that King William III appointed this new re- giment to be his Guards on the day when the Battle of the Duyne was fought.
Since that event, the regiment's flest great battle, it has taken part in every important campaign of the British Empire. At the close of the 17th century the Inniskillings were Aghting in Flanders; in the next cen- tury in Canuda and the West Indies; at St. Lucia they took the surrender and were privileged to tly their King's Colour for an hour over the captured fortress.
The honours won in the Napoleonic wors emblazoned on the Colours, just mention names, Malda, Badajoz, Salamanca,
Vittoria, Pyrenees, Nivelle, Orthes, Toulouse, Peninsula, but they leave one to 631 in pictures- que delils such as the single combat to which Capt. Waldron challenged a French O.C. and stew him hand- somely.
The 27th Foot went into action at
Waterloo after a march of 46 miles on short rations. "This is the regi- ment which saved the centre of my line" said Wellington after the
battle.
INVINCIBLE GALLANTRY
Throughout those earlier days of the regiment's history there travels a never-failing ripple of invincible gallantry, whether it was when forcing a landing at Kleen Keten in 1799, even as the "Skins" did at Gallipoli, marching barefoot to
vic- tory in Spain, parading straight from battling, naked, to repulse an attack on the Italian front, or holding up the German advance ол Paris with an isolated platoon on the extreme left flank of the Allied forces,
E.
It the 2nd Battalion that won regiment's arst battle honour in the Great War. Mobilized on out- break of War, this battalion
soon
found itself with all four companies In the line, on the extreme left of the British Expeditionary Force at Le Cateau. In September, covering the retreat through the forest of Com- plegne, where outposts reported that shooting was good-at Germon machine-guns.
the Wor
This happened on November 1 and is described in the Official History of a "distinct triumph." The war as a Inniskillings were able to help the 9th Laneers out of a nasty corner near Plugsteert in October.
On October 3, 1016, the 30th, the Ulster Division, landed in France. This unit contained three ba
three battalions
of Inniskilling Fusiliers-the DL, 10th and 11th-al!
from
Force.
In 1916 those three
the ranks of Ulster went
Into the line; In February of the same year two Service Battalions of the regiment, the 7th and 8th, arrived in France and began their battle career with the 16th (Irish) Division at Loos
They suffered steadfastly in the gas attack on April 20, the 7th Dal- talion meriting special mention by Sir Douglas Hulg. By July, 1916, the British Army numbered 600,000 to whom the Inniskilling Fusiliers hud contributed seven hattalions on the Western Front.
In July, five corps attacked under
Sir Henry Rowlinson's command on a front of about 13 miles between Maricourt and Serre; two Regular and three Service Battalions of the Inniskillings took
took part in this.
The objectives given to those bat- fallons, 1st, 2nd, 9th, 10th, and 11th, had the ring of familiar names-- Lurgan, Lisburn, Strabane, Dun- carmon, Lisnaketh. Every company lender of the 8th Battalion fell in that grim ativance in which trenches were taken at the point, of the bayonet.
The 10th had equally heavy losses. Some of them pushed on beyond their objective and they sent back a rich bag
of prisoners. The 11th Batta- lion, moving up in support, also suf-
ered severely.
five
on
In the meantime the 1st Battalion Was making a gallant attack Hawthorne Redoubt, while the 2nd Battalion had been moved up from Brigade
Reserve
to support the attack on Thiepval. It was a glorious day for the regiment, but there was much
mourning in Ulster homes for between them the
battalions counted over 2,000 casualties.
In September, 1916, the 7th and 8th Battalions were
brought to
the Somme to a warm corner where the map marked Guillemont village and Leuge Wood. The 8th Battalion lost Lieut.-Col. Dalziel Walton, its C.O., to a sniper. The capture of Gincly and Guillemont cost the 7th Battalion five offleers and 184 other ranks.
After the Somme the 1st Battalion moved to Ypres, where the "Incom
parable 20th Division were com- plimented by the King, the Prince of. Wales, the King of the Belgians, and Prince Alexander of Teck.
The 2nd Battalion spent some time in mud and snow around Beaumont Hornel. Early in 1917 the 1st Battalion contributed a dramatic effect to the celebrations of the German Em- peror's
ror's birthday by taking prisoner 394 of the Kaiser's bravest and best in their attuck on Le Transloy.
Then at the great mining opera- tions at Messines, when that place and Wytschaete were captured, the regiment was represented by five battalions. Here the gallant Gallag- her was
The 1st Battalion Joined 7th, 10th 11th, at Langemark, and ater at Cambral four of these took part in the fighting that brought Licut. Col. Sherwood Kelly his V.C.
Another V. C. was won for the re- giment in the course of the German counter-attack at Cambrai, bat Licut, Emerson did not survive to wear It The Oth Battalion had all its com- pany commanders killed and came cut only a gallant fragment.
FRATERNAL MEETING
In 1918, the two Regular battalions held a fraternal meeting the first In 38 years, and celebrated it with a football match, won by the 2nd Bat- talion. The reorganization of that last year of the war brought those
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two battalions and the 8th together Sunday Classical Concert,
Into one Brigade of the 30th Divi- sion.
Then, when victory dawned in the advance of 1918, The Inniskilling Brigade of the 30th Division struck the first blow by capturing Envels- berg. From there on to Passchen- dacle Ridge as part of an alled force, with the King of the Belglans as G.O.C. The last big engagement of this brigade was the passage of the Lys in mid-October of that year.
EXPLOITS IN GREAT WAR
Other V.C.s were won for the re- giment by Capt. Eric Norman Frank- land Bell at Thiepval; by Pte. James Duffy in Palestine; Sec.-Lieut, J. 5. Emerson as already mentioned, at La Vocquerie; Pte. Norman Harvey at Ingeyhen; and Lee.-Corpi. E.-Seaman at Terhaud.
A stirring recital this of the deeds done by those who march to the tune of "The Sprig of Shillelagh." "Rory O'Moore," the march-past of the 2nd Battalion, is also played once through before "The Sprig." In the days of the ceremonial slow- march "The Minstrel Boy" was the air used, and at all concerts glyen by the band "St. Patrick's Day" pre- cedes the National Anthem.
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