... distinguished regiment had since it was first embodied. At one time it was known as the Loyal Americans and in the Peninsular War a g ea majority of the officers and men were of German origin. Again it was the Duke of York's Own Rifle Corps and at the present ...

... century, they have always borne a high character, and in the Peninsula as in the Crimea won their laureb- i bore the brunt of the war in New Zealand. The depot of the regiment is at Newcastle, and the men are mostly recruited from the North, and are as line ...

... who commands the First Battalion of the Liverpools, now at Ladysmith, was in the Afghan War of 1878, and saw service in the Kuram V alley and the capture of Pei war Kotal. He joined the Army in 1873, and obtained the command of the Regiment in 1899-- this ...

... rough service. He went through the Afghan War, 1S7S-1SS0, Is A.D.C. to tho G.O.C. the First Division of the Peshawar Field Force, an.l was mentioned in despatches. He also took part in the Soutli African War of 1881. CAPTAIN KNAPP, I.L.H., KILLED AT LADYSMITH ...

... VOLUNTEERS FOR THE FRONT. RECENT reverses in South Africa have roused those curled darlings of the counties-- the Yeomanry, at one time fit only, in popular opinion of not so long ago, for balls and pic nics and flirtations of a fortnight's training-- ...

... opportunities, and distinguished himself in the Afghan War as a non-eommissioned officer, and in 1879 and 1880 was twice mentioned in the despatches. Promotion followed, and he saw service in South Africa before he had the opportunity of distinguishing himself ...

... Regiments, viz. the First and Second Life Guards and the Blues, are eacxi sending out a Squadron to form a Regiment in South Africa, where they will act as Divisional Cavalry, one Squadron to each Division. v-X--= _ THE BLUES IN LINE. T H E ROYAL H 0 R S ...

... 1882, returning to his post at Headquarters the same year. D.A.G. in South Africa in 1888, and commanded the Home District from 1892 to 1897. His service records are the Ashanti war, 1873 the Egyptian expedition, 1882 Bechuana- land' expedition, 1884, where ...

... accompany her husband when ho goes out to Africa next month on another big game hunting expedition. They were married last season, and before that event Lord Delamere had made two expeditious into the interior of Africa. During the last there was con siderable ...

... engagement. Lady Claud Hamilton-- flreeoo i °n !as,Sone to the war was looking distinguished, ■m.i ti J!1 a°k' Everywhere were well-known people, ley talked war, all war, and nothing but war. bnin.T 1°US dinner wc saw Sir Thomas Lipton, who was thirmo, ...

... fleet is, however, as a man-o'-war to a cock boat, since hist practised. Let everybody do a bit for the men at the front, and they will feel happier ever afterwards. Deer forests are letting well, notwithstanding the war. One would have thought that military ...

... favour of war. It will not be a glorious campaign, if indeed it comes to be one but it will be very dangerous, and very horrible too, since it will be against white men moro or less civilised. I fancy from what one or two dwellers in South Africa havo told ...