THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, MARCH 6, 1950.
IRISH GUARDS CELEBRATE GOLDEN JUBILEE MARCH 17
POCKET CARTOON -from America
by OSBERT LANCASTER
"It's no good, Maudic, wherever we go I'm always conscious of the Treasury looking at we with a
Tebrauchful eye."
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the most try February 1940, and the Second 1017 after occupation ing circumstances, in the absence in July
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ANOTHER VC
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Another VC was won by the Regiment when Cdomn Charlton WAS posthumously awarded the honour for a par- ticularly allout action at Wisted, only four days before The
cease-fire was ordered. Ilis 2nd. Dattalion platoon was suf- denly attacked at daylight, and the sentry tank of which he was)
hit and set on the driver was fire,
St Patrick's Day is always a great occasion in the Irish Guards, but this year's celebrations on March 17 have a significance all their own. They will mark the Golden Jubilee of the Regiment, and His Majesty the King, as Colonel-in-Chief, will make the ceremonial presentation of the shamrock-a custom started by his grandmother Queen Alexandra-at a parade at Chelsea Barracks, where the 1st Battalion is stationed.
to supervise the At this ceremony will be und the men were ordered to May 1940
There was no evacuation of the Dutch Roynt Field Marshal Viscount file off on to us.
the Government, confusion, no hurry, and no sign Family and Alexander of Tunis, Colonel or haste or flurry. I knew that and in the same month fought of the Regiment, who com- there might be only a matter of desperate action at Boulogne. It
then turned Into manded both the 1st and minutes in which to get them was
and, together off. I had four ropes fixed so armoured unit 2nd Battaliony during
They
ey with the 3rd Battalion, lunded as to hurry up the transfer. World War One, and the 1st continued to file steadily off in in Normany In June 1944 Rs Battalion during the two one line. I cursed and awore part of the Guards Armoured with which: they at them, but they had orders to Division, file, and they filed. I saw some fought until the end of the war. Field Marshal, who is one who seemed me to be
and
They took part in the libern- oficer,
In no Governor-General of Canndin, is young flying to Britain specially for measured terms told him to get tion of Brussels, the battle on In the Escaut Canal, the advance to the celebrations, and will tater them off by all four ropes,
the defence of the visit branches of the Irish second they conformed to this Nijmegen,
bridgchend and the Guard Association in the north order by one of their own of- Nijmegen
sil steadily and with hine of England, Belfast and Dublin. eers.
out
Their Battalion fuss or confusion. The Regiment was formed conduct during the Boer Wir to com- memorate the bravery of the of senior officers, on a burning duties in Germany. Irish troops who fought in South and sinking ship, open at any Africa. There had been, in the moment to a new attnek, was 17th century, a regim
regiment ofas fine us, or ther than, the con- Guards for Ireland raised by the duct in the eld dinys of the Duke of Ormond during King: soldiers on the Birkenhead'.. Charles II's reign. This was 60 were got on board in 10
who minutes." composed of Englishmen volnaleered for service hero's the Trish Sea, and
and in time a TUNISIAN TRIUMPH number of Trishmen joined it. It
North Afrien, the bai- iranained true to Janies 11 when Willam seized the throne in tation came once again under its Genera1 Commander, 1684, and went in France as an id
und! Irish
earned in king Alexander, Brigade to serve Louis XIV. The regiment was perishable
in the rocky Glory world formally
baled oul, but struck off the roll of ridges of Tunisin during the final the British Army in 1000. offensive against Axis forces. Charlton climbed back into the Their greatest achievement was burning tunk, unhooked the FIRE AND DASH on till 212 of the Bou Massif Browning machine gun from the which, as the C-in-C said in his turret and jumped into the road Though young in years, the despatches. "The
capture of
meet the Germans. Everyone, that is, except those Irish Guards quickly built up n this mountain was carential to placed
his machinegun far-sighted enough to purchase tradition of fre and dash In the whole conduct of the oper- in road and fired steadily at one of Mr Overheck's Ozark World War One which their sonstions in order to clear the left the
the enemy. After his left arm retreats in Atkan-as and Mia-
ཊྛིཏྭཱ ཙྪཏྠ 'ཙཝཱཝཱ
worthily enhanced more flank of the affack. The fight- had been hit, be moved to a gate Ni
merntly
ing-on-the-mountain-warcevere.-4-a-hedge-and, supporting: bis Wiebington newspaper T-
and the enemy counter-attacked arm on the lop bar, went on cently
carried the advertives "They have," wrote Budgard many times; major credit mud fring Hit again, he propped
Kipling of those Micke of 1914,
the Browning on the gate. Bring "Colonies, new farming in the all their rage's delight in the go to the Irish Guards." Ozark Mountain area. away drama of things, and whatever The Guards held the hill for and loading it with one hand. A latest shattered his other from large cities and Industrial the pinch-whether ambushed four blazing hot days, short of arms and he collapsed, but the plants. ld al Lefuge, high warfare or hand-to-hand thick food, sleep, water and ammuni- clevation, complete
utilities, an insolently perfect parade tion repeatedly shelled, mortarert platoon and the other tanks had servered themselves and the dundant springy, rich lands after long divorce from the deand machine-gunned, often sur- accessible caves. For stamediate centies-they can be depended rounded, repelling
attack after sudden attack misfired. I write
Post Office upon to advance the rentimental attack, and showing throughout
home. They needed Overbeek:
says the atomie en oprehension, quick route a stolid and cheerful endurance. men of the Reginent were killed
al inflexible justies, which
I was there that 1./Cpl J. P. or died of wounds in World War 1,503 were catastrophe will rike in Sep-Jan
Honours include 17 tember 1951, and will be followey repaid by individual deva Kenneally won his VC charging Tw, and another
goodwil: single-handed A massed body of wounded. cd by two years of starvation.on and a collective
MM's and four Croix de Guerre. "Ong-third of the world," he that showed best when things the enemy and breaking up an ISO's 41 MC's. 18 DCM's, 68
attack on two occasions. VIC- were at their utter woist."
ò{] The Micks may not be so say
The 2nd Battalion, which har third will starve to death, leave
in April 1939, in the Army List, but their front Three VC, 14 DSO's, 67 MCs, been re-formed ing the pointed out, "another
DCM's add 244 MMS went to the look of Holland in line service is second to none. third."
earned by the Ile- stimer's 1wo battalions the Western Iront during
SAVE YOUR
SKIN
Everyone in the will be killed in an atomic catastrophe, wecording to James Overbeck.
Box
will be destroyed,
His detalled platts for Ozark were calunirs estimate the cost at
about 2,000 dollars per per114-10, and 2.350 officers and
The colony cottages,” Overbeck, "will be constructed a fort their lives, while
with round corner, 50 that when a
tidal wave or Parth-
other 5,735 were waanded.
-
The 14 Battalion Ended in Pranen a week after holi
Book part in the
quake locks them over, it Firelig
won't matter much.
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"Ail furniture will be chaines famous retreat from Mans, and
the floor." Overbeek, who rels kitchen utensils for a living, alon each colony wart have houre Boats realy wearby in case of teori.
12
AMBASSADOR
RELAXES
fought with great staunchners at the Marne, Alne and Ypre The Second Battalion, fermed in July 1915, rereived it: baptium
of fire an Lous. Both were o the Somme, in and about the Hohenzollern Redoubt, helped reped the real Gecman offensive i of March 1918 and played a
The
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A
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total of 740 officers and
Worldwide Rush
To
Mind
Consult
Doctors
Tens of thousands of people all over the world are suffering, or imagine they are suffering. from neurosis- mental ill-health. And they are rushing to the mind doctors about it.
detiminded part in the beak bat of the Hindenburg 1.inc.
were both at Maubeure Belgaum wh.n the Armistice] was surned and then spent some
Paychiatrists everywhere months in the creation of! Cologne before the 2nd Battahan report the same tendency. was dithanded,
VALUE OF DISCIPLINE
Dr F. T. Cheng, one of the best known figures in London's diplomatic corps,j has been enjoying a
Ju World War Two, the 1st earned rest since his tenure Battalion took part in the brief
well-
Many neuroties verage of £300 more to be cured.
pay
an
year-or
Reporter in Britain falked
Som Harley Street psychia- to doctors about this develop- ment, and what it means. Here's triste charge from two to five
CRS an hour, what they found:
in North Africa, and then move mental
disord
of office as Chinese Ambas- and tragle campaign of Norway 30 pet treatment for
fortned part of the First Army sador ended abruptly with British recognition of the new Peking regime.
So many Britons are
And one leading doctor asks trying
deposit of £2,000-bc- supposed for a that the cause of the time which may be! to Italy for the par- Institute of Psycho-analysis has involved. ticularly bitter fighting in the closed its waiting list.
There is increased resori in Auzio beachhead.
The Institute is the
most Britain to rapid methods to ob- A friend of the former Am- Only its
discipline, eminent body of mind specialists tain results electrical shock! 1 Breat bassador told me: "Dr Cheng tradition and steadfast eeurage) in the United Kingdom.
trentnient and the Ate of raved it from hilation in Sidney Redin, writhing in the dang-but those
be may the things he hasn't had time Norway. Perhaps it gave ita London Daily Express, says that applied only by qualified doc- tore before, He spends a lot finest example of Guards dis-people already on this list must tors. of his time reading and writ-elpline when the ship which was wait for treatment for periods
If he has any plans for transferring if from Narvik area from six months to two years. the future, I am unaware of to the south was bombed and
now has time to see some
Ing.
them."
tunk.
The cast is usually equivalent
to that for 1 major surgical
eatment under the National Health scheme.
At the
50 psychiatric depar!- op rullen - from
10 100 Na mere naval disaster could shake the
effect of the ments of St Bartholomew's, St guiness-and often the patient A fermer Melal of the Depot.
With fires blazing the George's, Guy's, and other big prefers to pay rather than take! Chit:cre Embassy let trop 21 companies fled up from their London hospitals, people who his place in the queue for tree rather undiplomatic remarkness decks, in full kit, carrying want their mind examined have when he was nsked if he knew their rifles and Brens. and to wait upwards of six months, when his Communist success- | waited
patiently to embark
The number of men and
Most genuine sufferers come ors were taking over, "I don't without the slightest sign of
think themselves from the middle classes, parti- know and I don't care," he said.
panie, Many of the tifeboats women who "We have had no word from could not he lowered arul escortneurotie, in fact, is so large cularly the upper middle class. them so far," he said.
ships had to come alongside to that Britain's Ministry of Health
committee to Men is setting up a Most of the staff of the Em- take them off.
Britabi-at least for
he
neuroties ace
as numerous as women, but people who live in the country are less the fears, oppressions, hysteria, and anxieties which are the common symptoms of mental ill-health,
bassy will be staying in The Commander of one of inquire how best they call л while these said: "We closed on their helped. They have found that passages | hurning and sinking ship. I In Britain, this demand for inclined to suffer trom
means that to Hongkong and Formosa are never before realised what the special treatment
sums of money fully naked for the next two discipline of the Guards was. We enormous or three months.
got a gangway shipped forward change hands.
K.
CANNON
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