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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,

just away from it all

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

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a

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60-con-

his

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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

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