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Updated: July 10, 2025
The boat was full of drafts for the 29th Division Essex and Hampshire men, Inniskillings, Munsters, Royal and Lancashire Fusiliers, Worcesters and rumours of the intended Suvla expedition were in the air.
Both regiments begged that they might be allowed to charge the rough slopes from which the ceaseless stings of rifle-fire came, and the Fusiliers, whose colonel would have led them willingly enough, had their bayonets fixed, when some one hoisted the white flag, and by this act the remnants of two gallant regiments became prisoners of war.
For my part I was inclined to stay, and watch how long the three fusiliers would have the patience to lie in wait; but seeing less and less use in that, as I grew more and more hungry, I swung my coat about me, and went home to Plover's Barrows. Stickles took me aside the next day, and opened all his business to me, whether I would or not.
The magistrates of Edinburgh, in order to defeat all attempts at a rescue, lodged the executioner the day previous in the Tolbooth, to prevent his being carried off; the sentinels were doubled outside the prison; the officers of the trained bands were ordered to attend the execution, likewise the city constables with their batons; the whole city-guard, having ammunition distributed to them, were marched to the place of execution with screwed bayonets, and, to make all sure, at desire of the lord provost, a battalion of the Welch Fusiliers, commanded by commissioned officers, marched up the streets of the city, and took up a position on each side of the Lawnmarket; whilst another body of that corps was placed under arms at the Canongate guard.
One commemorates Sir George Parker, the cantonment magistrate; a second, Captain Jenkins; a third, Lieutenant Saunders and the men of the 84th Regiment; a fourth, Lieutenant Glanville and the men of the Madras Fusiliers; and here, too, lies stout-hearted yet tender-hearted John MacKillop of the Civil Service the hero of another well, that from which the team of buffaloes are now drawing water to make the mortar for the Memorial Church.
But me and my mate here happens to be moosical. Used to sing in St. Church in Leeds. Leading bass, I was a bit irregular, I'll own, and that's why they wouldn't keep me on. My mate plays the cornet. He used to be in the band of the Fusiliers. Served in South Africa, he did, and got a sock in the face from a shell; yer can see the 'ole under his eye.
Thus in Kimberley also the word of God 'had free course and was glorified, and the workers 'thanked God and took courage. We turn now to another part of the field of operations, and the place that demands our attention is Sterkstroom. Here, following the disaster to the Northumberland Fusiliers, there was a long halt. General Gatacre could not advance without reinforcements.
The essential difference between the German soldiers and our own is in the officering and training, and it is admirably expressed by Private Burrell, Northumberland Fusiliers. According to other letter writers, the German soldiers are absolutely tyrannized over by their officers. "They hate their officers like poison, and fear them ten times more than they fear death," says Private Martin King.
"They look like our own men," said Corporal West; "still, them blessed Germans' uniform seems just the same colour as our own in this light." A minute later some English words rang out in the still evening air. "We're the Lancashire Fusiliers," said a voice. "Wait a minute," said Bob to the corporal. "I am going to see who they are before taking any risks."
We have an irregular force of mounted infantry at Mafeking, the Loyal North Lancashire Regiment at Kimberley, the Munster Fusiliers at De Aar, half the Yorkshire Light Infantry at De Aar, half the Berkshire Regiment at Naauwpoort do not try to pronounce it and the other half here at Stormberg.
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