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A.W. Currie of Victoria, Commanding Officer of the 50th Fusiliers; Lieut.-Col. J.E. Cohoe of St. Catharines, Commanding Officer of the 5th Militia Infantry Brigade. The officer appointed to command the artillery brigade was Lieut.-Col. H.E. Burstall of Quebec, of the Artillery Headquarters Staff. Officer in command of the Strathcona Horse, Lieut.-Col.
First came the "Novelty" of Braithwaite and Ericson; then the "Sans pareil" of Hawkworth; the "Perseverance" of Burstall; and, lastly, the "Rocket" of Stephenson. Of the first three we shall merely say that the "Novelty," being weak in the wheels, broke down; the "Sans pareil" burst one of her cylinders; and the "Perseverance" turned out to be too heavy to comply with the conditions of the trial.
Miss Gilchrist is our secretary, I am the President and Miss Blackadder is er the Committee." "By whom elected? This," said Miss Burstall, "is most irregular." Rosalind went on: "We are here to appoint a vice-president, to elect members of the Committee and enlist subscribers to the Union. These things will take time." "We were punctual," said Miss Farmer. Rosalind did not even look at her.
She failed to get around the point, and lifted by a wave over the rocks, became fixed in a cleft, where she soon bumped a hole in her hull. Such of her crew and passengers who were not lucky enough to be thrown far inland were drowned, or crushed to death. One passenger, named Burstall, crawled out on a boom, from which the waves swept him high on to the rocks.
Canon Burstall is really my aunt and whether she couldn't be brought to use her private influence on me to keep me quiet, in case it came out that Kate Warren was her sister, and that she led Kate into that way of life wherein she earned her shameful livelihood. I have had one or two covert hints from Aunt Liz promising to open up relations if only I'll behave myself!
Burstall, the officer commanding, gave me every assistance and issued orders to his officers to aid in every possible way in the campaign. My object was to educate all the artillery and cavalry units on the danger of using impure water, on typhus fever and how it was conveyed by lice, and on the value and necessity of anti-typhoid inoculation.
This is our secretary, Miss Valentina Gilchrist; Miss Ethel Farmer; Miss Winifred Burstall " Dorothy greeted in turn Mrs. Rosalind went on. "Miss Maud Blackadder " Miss Blackadder's curt bow accused Rosalind of wasting time in meaningless formalities. "Miss " Rosalind was at a loss. The other girl, the youngest of the eight, came forward, holding out a slender, sallow-white hand.
My 'uncle' Canon Burstall Oh what a screaming joke the whole thing is!... I doubt if he was aware he had a niece.... Don't you remember he was killed in the Alps last autumn?..." Norie: "I remember your going down to see your aunt after you broke off relations with your mother in in 1897...?" Vivie: "Yes. I wanted to see how the land lay and not judge any one unfairly.
Going round the salient one day with General Burstall and a very good name, too! who was then the Canadian gunner-general, I was horrified at the way in which the enemy had the accurate range of our guns and gun-pits and knocked them out with deadly shooting.
At Canadian corps headquarters, where we dined with Generals Alderson and Burstall one night after our own town had been bombed, they were very much interested as they had occupied that town for several months, and each officer wanted to know whether his former billet had been struck.
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