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“Perhaps I'm hard to please.

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When I was younger

I didn't much care what I ate or drank or smoked. But nowadays I take my pleas- ures, not sadly but seriously. I suppose you would call me faddy. I hate to be put off with second- best, no matter what it is. I won't eat a peach unless it is English. If I order caviare it must be Beluga.

You' see what I mean about whisky. While I can obtain a whisky as soft and smooth as a fine liqueur,

why on earth should I be - put off with anything less

I

than White Horse?

admit that perhaps I am hard to please -- but take it from me, it pays."

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By REGINALD HARGREAVES

When, about 1320, Barthol- found a standing force of Artillery, dus Schwartz of Brunswick as, since 1681, it had been deemed im- perative to maintain a standing body of Infantry and Cavalry.

permitted his mind to con- centrate upon the lethal pos- sibilities of that child of his

CIVILIAN DRIVERS IN

WHITE SMOCKS -

The Royal Regiment's first Colonel

BOY GYM tion of Boys' ( attended by th ways the plan up during pra and Bermonda.

brain which Shakespeare has was curiously enough, a Danė, Albert so ruefully described as "vil- Borgard, whose many years of war- lainous saltpetre," then the fare, first with the Danish and then with the Russian armies, had brought Royal Regiment of Artillery him finally to serve in that of Great may reasonably be said to Britain. It was his good fortune to have been in a fair way of take the field under that great com- mander, John Duke of Marlborough, achieving birth. Given the himself no mean artillerist, as Malpla- fact of gunpowder, and its quet bore witness, and quite capable,

as at Blenheim, of superintending the become the first A application to the purposes laying of each gun in person. Major-General's of warfare could only be a Under the command of Borgard- the right of Gunt matter of time.

with his seven wounds, including the mand a force of a There were cannon-of a kind--at loss of his left arm, and his wide ex- but found time to Crecy, at Poitiers; and "Bluff King perience gained in 23 sieges and 18 that body of ent the Royal Artillery which, in a later Hal," for all the fidelity with which major combats

a destined to achie

he cherished the archer, was an en- in 1716 achieved organisation on thusiastic sponsor of the art of the permanent basis of two companies, as the Royal Arti artillerist. Indeed, his "twelve great which were further increased to four "THe guns ar

dubbed ironically

he in 1727.

The Artillery, gonnés,'

By 1749 this force had grown to a have no Colours Twelve Apostles," were his unfailing source of pride and joy; despite the total of 10 companies, with the Royal Colours" is their at Woolwich next 60 years w fact that at the siege of Tournay "St. Military Academy

its "spiritual them "Battle Ho John" fell into disgrace as the outcome (founded in 1741) as of getting hopelessly stuck in the mud! home" and the training ground for its fusion as to crow SOLITARY "ARTILLATOR". highly efficient personnel. Clothed, fed its uttermost lim

and paid by the Board of Ordnance, Wellington, once AGED EIGHTY-ONE- Under Elizabeth, however, the Ar- in many ways the Gunners were in as "an essentiall their rendered seant f tillery suffered even more acutely than considerably better case than most from the general neglect which comrades of the line, at the mercy of tous Corps, with

concerned with ers now welded was the fate of the Army as a whole; a War Office more the gunner "garrison" of one of our holding its own amidst all the intri- the Peninsula w most important seaports consisting at gues of party politics than with cher- Royal Regiment' one time of a solitary “artillator" own- ishing the welfare of the hapless sol- performances in

There was Fu diery. ing to the venerable age of 81,

where Model" Cromwell's "New

Army One drawback alone persisted-the instance, possessed a fair train of artillery; and inefficiency and insubordination of the wedged in a sw

in hobbledehoy "civilian" drivers, in cavalry, crashed- there were gunners to be found Restoration days. But their activities their blue-collared white smocks, by jammed ranks th were mostly confined to siege work. whom the guns themselves were mov- in, "his horses b Their lack of mobility was in no way ed-so lazily and inexpertly!-from like greyhounds bettered by the fact that such drivers place to place. Despite this dragging men of the batt as they possessed were not soldiers, handicap, at the battle of Minden in right and left v but temporarily hired civilians, sub- 1759 the enterprising Capt. Phillips so the guns and 1 ject to no military discipline or organ- galvanised his trains of drivers into corks in the w isation, and demanding an inordinate- activity that they positively raced one teams, as they c ly heavy Infantry escort to look after another to be first on the spot in sup- way to safety fi them and generally ensure that they port of the advancing infantry; a feat capture which

they even excelled in coming up at whelm them. were kept out of trouble.

The genesis of the Royal Regiment the gallop--for the first time in his- which was to come may be found in tory-to complete the rout

ing stolidly back the regimental artillery train institut- French at Warburg in 1760.

one arm shatte - ed under William III. in 1698. By But, then, Phillips was a very ex-

He not only lived to but with enou 1718 It was considered necessary to ceptional man.

Nor should a of the that solitary Gu

EAT AT

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INEXPENSIVE BATISFYING

Bringing Up Father

DAUGHTER IS IN HER ROOM AND LORD WORTHNOTTEN, AND HIS SON WILL SOON ARRIVE I'M SO ANXIOUS TO MEET HIS SON AND I DO HOPE DALIGHTER LIKES HIM-

WE HAVE SURE TRIED HARD ENOLIGH TO GIT

THE SON TO S

VISIT US

HELLO-OH-HELLO –

LORD WORTHNOTTEN- HUH? OH- THAT IS TOO BAD-I'M SORRY-

YOUR DAUGHTER LEFT THAT NOTE FOR YOU-MUM- JUST AS SHE. WENT OUT THE FRONT DOOR-

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