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Updated: June 13, 2025
If you peep over the shoulder of Captain Leslie, the gunner observing officer, as he directs the fire of his battery, situated some thousands of yards in rear, through the medium of map, field-glass, and telephone, you will obtain an excellent view of to-morrow's field of battle. Present in the O Pip are Colonel Kemp, Wagstaffe, Bobby Little, and Angus M'Lachlan.
Seven minutes from half-time, the Vale men made a smart spurt, and, after some clever passing, the ball was taken possession of by M'Lachlan, who jumped in and headed it between the posts just a few inches from the right side amid cheers and counter cheers.
Angus M'Lachlan, fairly in his element, had trailed his enormous length in and out of the back-yards and brick-heaps of the village, visiting every point in his irregular line, testing defences; bestowing praise; and ensuring that every man had his share of food and rest.
The battalion moved off. So much for the war-talk of veterans. Now let us listen to the novices. "Bogle," said Angus M'Lachlan to his henchman, "I think we shall have to lighten this Wolseley valise of mine. With one thing and another it weighs far more than thirty-five pounds." "That's a fact, sirr," agreed Mr. Bogle. "It carries ower mony books in the heid of it."
If he tumbles to the error he is making, and digs himself in again well, it may become necessary to draw him. In that case, M'Lachlan, you shall have first chop at the Victoria Crosses. Afraid I can't recommend you for your last exploit, though I admit it must have required some nerve!" There was unseemly laughter at this allusion.
M'Lachlan replied that he was from London, she believed, a pleasant gentleman enough; and he had his wife with him. "Ha! Young? Pretty?" Charles inquired, with a speaking glance at me. "Weel, Sir Charles, she'll no be exactly what you'd be ca'ing a bonny lass," Mrs. M'Lachlan replied; "but she's a guid body for a' that, an' a fine braw woman."
"Weel, it's cauld onyway," Bogle would rejoin, anxious to endorse his superior's decision. Or in the same spirit "Wull I luft the soup now, sir?" "No!" "Varra weel: I'll jist let it bide the way it is." Lastly, Angus M'Lachlan proved himself a useful acquisition especially in rest-billets as an athlete.
Till then Company drill and Cup-Ties! Carpe diem! It all seemed very strange and unreal to Second-Lieutenant Angus M'Lachlan, as he alighted from the train at railhead, and supervised the efforts of his solitary N.C.O. to arrange the members of his draft in a straight line. There were some thirty of them in all.
Such men do not deserve to live! Oh, sirs " But Angus's peroration was lost in a storm of applause. "You are adjudged to have hit the bull's-eye, M'Lachlan," said Colonel Kemp. "But tell us, Wagstaffe, your exact object in compiling this horrible catalogue." "Certainly. It is this.
Nigg's allotted task upon this occasion was to "comb out" certain German dug-outs. Shortly before two o'clock in the morning the party, headed by Angus M'Lachlan, crawled over the parapet during a brief lull in the activities of the Verey lights, and crept steadily, on hands and knees, across No Man's Land.
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