1939-09-13 — Page 11

TEMBER 13, 1939.

GHT INFANTRY PETROL

Marksmen: Crafty As Scouts

in-

ckets" are the Marines; and its Light Company, in particular, the "Lightboba" have hurd- "Light-bobs" the days of the war in America, had ly proved a match for their green- ar developed deliberately dyed their cap-feathers coated comrades, in all else they must that won the red, the better to enable the Colonials, be accorded a place in their country's e of the grim who had vowed particular vengeance- respect and gratitude in no way They are the upon them, to distinguish them from ferior to that so proudly held by the rnwall's, Ox- their comrades, The 52nd, the 2nd erstwhile "Coote Manningham's s Own York- battalion Oxford and Bucks L. I., will Sweeps" and "the even older "Loyal am, and High- always be remembered for having ad- American Provincials."

ministered the coup-de-grace to Napoleon's last attack at Waterloo.

s infantry bat- d "flank"

ог

even-

t as marksmen ving scouts. In

it was in whole bat- ularised work

try.

in

well as infan- he first to un- is.

FIVE AND THREE PENNIES

ven

or

Neither "Lightbobs" nor "Green- jackets" are folk to be lightly trifled with; and they possess, withal, a pret- ty faculty for exacting' poetic

This flair is well illustrated geance. The King's Own Yorkshire Light by the story of the entertainment of Infantry, enrolled in 1758, in addition some Rifle Brigade officers by their to forming one of "the incomparable comrades-in-arms of a Scottish re- Of these, six" of Minden fame, could claim that giment. Dinner was eaten to the fear-

of 16 sets the great Sir John Moore himself had some accompaniment and 1685, another had served as an ensign in their ranks. bagpipes. Nothing was said in pro....

re- No troops, moreover, supported him test at the time; but when the with more unswerving

round fidelity turn invitation was accepted throughout the ghastly retreat he con- the table of the Rifle Mess 32 bugles ducted on Corunna, The King's blared in concert, striking the greatest Shropshire Light Infantry-nickname- blow for poor old England since the ed, by virtue of their number 53, day of Flodden Field. "The Old Five and Threepennies”— apart from having been entrusted with the guardianship of Napoleon at St. Helena, bear the unique battle honour of "Nieuport" on their Colours; for the light infantry regiments. tained those honoured Silks which many of them had carried, in prideful triumph, in their days as plain in- fantry of the line.

to the magni-

them by Sir brated camp at

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re-

ifles and Light gh standard of The Durhams are another mid-18th- ked them out century regiment which saw service in ed veterans of the West Indies, in garrison at Gibral- nitially taking tar and at the capture of St. Lucia, only, made up before they turned their thoughts to he 1st and 2nd the Bugle Horn badge-derived from and Bucks the hunting horn of the jaeger-which itself, other is the light infantryman's hall-mark. tly to the re- Incidentally, polo history was made by d the force to "The Faithful Durhams" when they a division. thrice won the inter-regimental trophy in the teeth of every cavalry regiment in India.

To

as entrusted to ck Bob" Crau- tion with this Last, but certainly not least, comes leader of the that sturdy regiment once known as that the story Frazer's Highlanders, and now more missary who familiar as the Highland Light Infan- Wellington try. With "The Castle and Key, sup- threatened to erscribed: Gibraltar, 1780-83," and if supplies for the brilliant victory of Assaye as į

forthcoming foundation for their long list of South African and Great War honours, their Mackenzie tartan trews and dice- bordered shako render them as gal- lant a sight on ceremonial occasions

s far as that?"

in-Chief, tur-

to the almost as, in workmanlike khaki, they have

being reaf- proved a grim one when

certainly had. business was in the making.

advise you to

Iron Duke's

ent, "for if

would hang

POETIC VENGEANCE

sterner

from

The "Greenjackets," apart such little peculiarities as wearing the he Peninsular light infantry bugle horn on their stionably de- black buttons and invariably referring light infan- to their bayonets as "swords," are on or adapta- distinguished in having produced, in speedily in Capt. Kincaid and Rifleman Harris, with the Duke two of the most interesting military 1702. This diarists whose words have ever found h service as their way into print. And If, in this

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