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This Family Served Over 250 Years In The Army
By Peter Lovegrove
MONG the officers in ono after the other the beat alive in this world. I have
the Protestant Army Seats Greys, who were by then expire
armies of France. The Royal seen the sick on the wagon, which King Charles known
and Drown out ko Lo Grey Dragoons dead dogs...." the First raised in Scotland and sometimes referred to as It is not very surprising that and sent to Ireland in 1642 "The Scots Regiment of White he ends with the following P.S.; to protect the Protestant Horses" look part In all his "I think we will very shortly settlers and colonists was a campaigns and nearly all the go home, for the Spanish Cause certain John Breading, who tedious siege operations in the is now become hopeless, and as
Low Countries.
hem, for Portugal, I would not take
With
YOU DON'T
held the appointment of Itobert Ereading took part in a present of the whole king. SEE THESE
Marshul,
That during dank march across dom on condition of living And in 1942 there died in the front of the French Armles it." Kensington # certain George from Flanders to the Upper But the undus pessimism of Breading, whose 20 years of Danube in 1704- distance of the saddler-sergeant's post- | Army service had led him into 250 miles in less
shan
script was soon to be disproved. every military campaign in East weeks and in the storming By May 1813. Wellington's men Africa between 1000 and 1920 of the Schellenberg which were advancing once more into and carned him a DSO and four ensued.
Spain; a few weeka later Mentions in Despatches."
During the three centuries that elapsed, every successive genera tion of Brending, from father to son, served long and honour ably in the British
African
Less
they
were Enking A leading a
fantry. they
FACES EVERY DAY
Breading witnessed the King Tutankhamen had than two months later adored rout of the French
walked round the Rich- part in the battle of Blenheim, from Vittoria, and in the next mond (Surrey) dog show, which changed the political axis spring he was on French soll he would have recognised at of the world. Assaulting con- corning the Toulouse clasp to Army. tinually with the 5th Drageous his Peninsular medal as the
the least three breeds-the They have worn the King's and a few battalions of in campaign ended in a blaze of greyhound, the saluki, und up to 35% casier acting...theyto "King Size" too uniform in Flanders, Bayarla
forced the surrender glory. The Duke of Wellington the basenji. Pulgaria, Malta, Corts, Canada, Pig the with which comprised the medal, but he was over- unchanged since he and his run-
whole of the enemy opposed the issue of
have remained almost the West Indies, the Enst
proudest regiments territories and Abyssinia. They
Vietoria, and of ruled by Quten.
cestors used them On their survivors eventually marched with Marlborough and Louis XIV.
received
desert hunting trips. ghan Not One Man Lost George Breading had also re- Richmond was the baseni. No
it in 1048. By with Wellington; they
that time, Among the rare specimens at they were at Blenheim and at Romilles; at pOBERT Breading was also at ceived the Long Service Medal, breed has yet Salamanca
and Vittoria; they the Lines of Brabant the
descended from have been corporals-major of fallowing summer,
11 when his
Years Abroad the basenil because the супо horse, saddler-sergeants, re- gimental sergeant-majors, ur English nechcion
regiment, right of the line of JIS con John became the most-logist as the dog experts coll termasters; captains of foot, town enemy in
rode into the travelled
themselves have not had time and longes!. and broke malors and commanders of a four squadrons without losing folning the 77th Regiment of
serving member of the family, to experiment. tive levies, and their story of a single
Archaeologists who found 250 years in the service of the them. In the vast plain of Regt.) in 1825 as a boy of 14, Egyplan tomb.thought the breed
man. He war with
ith Foot (the 2nd. Bn Middlesex mummified bosen in a royal country apans the Regular mille Army from its inception to the thrown into battle at a crucial the
Ramilles when they were he was made lance-sergeant wan extinct, until just before present day.
very next day-probably the war, when it was discovered
could moment and, charging at the because be Record Lost
read and that Belgian Congo natives were Hallop. pierced a
crumbling write. He spent 11 years on using them to chase game. WE don't know much about the
front
with the foreign tours, being furrisoned and, together-
Tutankhamen might also have K. D. G.'s, compelled Stuarts Marshal (today we battalions to lay down their Nova Scotia, and then in 1854 you also see here--the Rhodesian Malta, Corfu and recognised another strange dog Jumaleo would any Provost-Marshal), and the full record of service of
embarked with his regiment ridgeback. But cynologists aro John Breading's son, who bore They caught the crack in for the Crimean War,
uncertain when this breed reach- the some Christian
serving 23 years in the ed Africa, also lost, but we do know fantry Regiment du Rol at the
that moment they were picking up ranks, John was commissioned he was appointed Town Major the knapsacks they had dis- 45 a quartermaster, a rank he of Athlone, then a fortress of carded for battle, and either held for a quarter of a century. great military strength
his and cut them to pleees or captured Like
Inther, he importance, in the reign of them to a moi It was then
was (Continued on Pazo 13) Charles the Second.
that the Greys earned the dia- third Breading, Robert, tinction of wearing French had the good fortune to serve Grenadier сара during what was perhaps the
WVRE Breading greatest period of fame for rain-soaked battlefeld British arms and under throughout Eurone
Cudenarde, in the bloodbathi one of the KOWLOON SUB-DISTRICT.brilliant commanders
inost
Just outside Malpinquet village; of mti
all and at Delingon. ame.
He ended TO: KOWLOON RESIDENTS
In 1600, he joined a famous and neculiarly national
his 21-year military career as Corps. Colones Leveson's Royal Ireland.
quartermaster, and Bettled in Books, Periodicals & Maga-Regiment of Scots Dragoons (now the Royal Scots Greya), and twelve years later companied his unit to the Low Countries.
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After
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-There is. on an Ísland Slam, another breed, with same, ridge of hairs-pointing- the-wrong-way running up the back.
No rich, no poor,
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By HAROLD DALE
chops, pork,
chleken, egg,
Woman Soldier ERVING with him for four years was ♫ remarkable woman: France was then dominant in who was known as "The Pretty Mrs Christina Davis, Europe. She bnd well-trained and all-conquering Ross." She
large, Dragoon" and also as "Mother
SYDNEY. was induced army, with 40 years of success enter the Army by the idea
HAVE just returned cream, milk, honey, and home- ful war behind it. just seized the Spanish Nether her errant husband, and it was remaining paradise island lemons, bananas, and grapefruit
She had that she would be able to find
from the world's last made bread and enkes.
The islandars. plek oranges lands, had designs on Vienna and Itoly, and was supportiu at Romilies that her sex was
not until she was wounded in the Pacific.
by simply reaching up to trees. the Jacobite pretender to the discovered. She
Here 200 sturdy people of The island, and everything on English throne. England joined and her
did eventually
20 British, stock live on their own it, belongs to the Crown, Denon of Sweden, Prussia. killed in batile'.
mate, but he was produce in luxury, paying no Families may Holland and
She married Austrian Empire, and put the
the twice more, and eventually be rent, eating four course meals, land grants until the family is beswimming in the shark-free extinct. Then it reverts to the Duke of Marlborough at the same a Pensioner of Chelseaingo
sca Ingoon, fishing with rod and Crown, which head of a 12,000-strong expedi Hospital, and was
charges nothing en spear in glass-bottomed boats. for occupancy of the Uonary force.
tropical- graveyard there.
She or climbing its two mountains. type bungalows In which the Within seven years, Maribo. lived to the ripe one of 108. Nobody is rich, nobody is people live. rough, despite political
There dis.
Is not much colour
poor on coral-giri Lord Howe The island las no public sension at home and hesitant about the next two generations Island, which eight miles long houses.
Liquor is not allowed alles in the field, had shattered of Breadings, who were and just over a mile wide,
In Ireland through- garrison duty out their service. The Arst
25 years in the 1st Irish Horse (now the 4th Dragoon Guards), which he joined in 1240 1740, retiring on pension with the rank Corporal-Majer. There were
then no
no sergeants in regiments of horse. TWO OF his sons went into the Marquis of Drogheda's Light
Horse (which later became the 18th Hussars), and the eldest, be- camo R.S.M. of the regiment in which he served 20 years.
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With his son George, the scene changed to the Peninsula and Wellington's campaigns. He did not enter.
a
the
Army
60-con-
his
סתומים
there.
THE HUNTER The Rhodeslan ridgeback. sured for hunting, looks a bit like a lion himsel}.".
THE SILENT PARTNER The busenfl-it can bark
·hut hardly ever doen
THE BLACK OUT Wooliter than a sheepdog. the Chast apsos.
THE NO-WAGGER.
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London Express service
TWO WAYS OF DRINKING
By NEWELL ROGERS
Now York
THE American can outdrink
the Englishman. But no man gets as much enjoyment from his drinking as an English- man. British wine expert and company director John Finney announced these findings tonight after a survey of New York's taverns.
Of the American ho said: "I look on open-mouthed at his drinking ability, and the little, effect it seems to have
חינם*
until he was 32 years
old, but then found the life
The lagoon, Lord Howe Island.
"He drinks a flock of Martinis genial that he did not leave it, Tourists and the palm-seed
before dinner and the hors until he was 62. He had been industry are the Islanders main no polles, no
There are no shops, no banks, d'oeuvres merely
his sadiller's apprentice
court-house, to stomach source of income,
of mort liquor to youth, and when the call o
magistrate. Nearest approach follow." Almost all the 160 adults have to authority is Jim MacBean, in 1811 for volunteers for the some interest in providing for who
Of the Englishman: "In the hard-pressed armien
overseas, tourists who go there by dying Control.
represents the Board of first place, no Englishman ever ho joined the 6th Dragoen
bont from Sydney and pay no
goes in for quick one.. When he Guards as a saddler-sergeant more than £Ú a work.
Jim's duties
limited to
enters a public-house he expects and Immediately sailed for
Ho Island guest houses can nc- occasional reports on work be remains dignified and happy..
to make an evening of it. Portugal. His duties included
ing done and registering births, the keeping in good repair of commodate about 200.
He mellows into "The more we' marriages and deaths. as many, as 700 pairs of boola
are together the merrier we will Schoolmaster. Frew
feaches be" and an equal number of Beta of saddlery.
sre
Most islanders join in collect- ing the palm-sed in season, the cland's 40 children in a A Board of Control sitting in one-room schoolhouse:
#
The basic difference: "A half-crecked Englishman will do
The Hardships Sydney, 400 miles away, pays. For visitors there is a tennis anything to preserve his dignity HE was present at the battles for the work at fixed rates. court and weekly danco, an American anything to break
of Ellerina and Salamanca money goes. Into n
When the seed is sold, the "beyond that nothing. The his down."" and the victorious entry Into
faland has no cinema, no theatre,
made. lông
followed by another British rotreat back to their old quarters Portugal.
In a letter to his
wife, ne painted the following vivid picture
cture of its hardships:
The roads in Spain aro ilko
prim-seed
Madrid in 1912-0 soon to be fund from which grants are Rare flying trips lo, the main-THE MORE, education
land are made by some of the American girl has, the less The islanders use the money islanders, but they soon want to offen does she catch a husband, to buy clothes, furniture, tools, leave Bydney to return to the says Dr Louise Dublin in "Why musical instruments, parafin all, remote peace of their magle Are You Single?" But the and luxuries, which are sent by Island.
Meducated girls have a ·botter- flying-bout from Sydney.
gardens chance of marrying well when Bryan Monkton, who runs then the islanders
they do marrY, flying-boats,
that the bloom tropical flowers hibiscus, bowling green in summer, butlanders get what they want af oleander and bougainvillon,
MY GROCER is going to sell the world's cheapest air freight "pasin birds which, according from Hawall in a refrigerated Among the palma they point to orchids 'flown 8,000, malles to Laland tradition, fly back case which he can set up on the He recently delivered to one
wards,
counter: beside his lettuce and days and the pan of the country of them a three-piece drawing-
They fly backwards, perhaps, cabbage. becams liko a great lake of roum suite. water. Then the hardships of the
Nobody ever hurries on Lom because, like the visitors when their time is up, they're more
GENERAL MacARTHUR ́ ́ ́ is retreat commenced, the In-Howe Taland, where an income interested in where they have going to use Washington for fantry wading for miles up to of £200 a year, in wealth.
In winter I have not words to give you an idea of them. After we passed Salamanca,
neo, It rato,
rained · Incessanily for somo
thes
'their middles) 15 have, men Everybody has a smallholding boon than in where they are more money and more. troops to QYRI run Japan. It is necessary, ho many soldiers lle down in the and : produces food. Quito Boing
Rays, becausa, China is going: sludge, never to riso gain "ordinary" food includes steaks,
Communist
-London Express Service)