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... minutes’ silence, “ that 1t is rather a mistake SEUing married at all. You used to be a jolly t{g €nough once—oh, yes, if you are six years va €T than T am, I can remember you long before 1 ou Were married to Willie Greville. You seem gotme to have altered ...

Published: Saturday 04 April 1896
Newspaper: The Regiment
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1945 | Page: 23 | Tags: none

Leave of Absence

... the banks of the Tagus or Douro, and they were refused ; but one officer, who asked for leave for the purpose of getting married, was allowed to return to England because he set forth a specific plea. Let the basilisk eyes of a fair creole once fascinate ...

Published: Saturday 04 April 1896
Newspaper: The Regiment
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 719 | Page: 12 | Tags: none

of Paddy’s Way out of it

... of Paddy’s Way out of it. AN OrrFICER of the Connaught Rangers some time ago thought fit to get married, and on returning from his honeymoon introduced his wife to his soldier servant, Paddy Miles, who was not at all pleased with the arrangements his ...

Published: Saturday 11 April 1896
Newspaper: The Regiment
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 287 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

One advantage of the Army

... by it ?” asked a gentleman of a Chelsea pensioner. “Single blessedness, sir,” he replied ; “for after that no woman would marry me.” of Gratitude! “I LOVE this old horse,” said the Colonel. “1 feel that he saved my life.” € How ?” “He kicked me in the ...

Published: Saturday 18 April 1896
Newspaper: The Regiment
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 144 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

'HREE miles west from the fashionable watering-place, Folkestone, is the village of Sandgate, above which, on ..

... underwent extensive alterations, the cavalry accommodation being extended at a cost of £9,000 and new barracks built for married soldiers of the Royal Artillery at a cost of £6,000. The troops at Shorncliffe usually consist of two or three battalions ...

Published: Saturday 18 April 1896
Newspaper: The Regiment
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 380 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

MAY 2, 18¢g6. doI:»:POLEON : “But the officers get tipsy then, CotLhey?” (Thenin English, Drunk, drun}c, eh?) ..

... Jordan passed the ordeal. He whs Married to a handsome St. Helena lady ho ™ he had met in Bengal, and whose father’s wol;? Was not more than a mile from Long};he following short dialogue passed : CAPOLEON : “You are married ?” NAPTAIN JORDAN : “Yes.” Ho ...

Published: Saturday 02 May 1896
Newspaper: The Regiment
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 558 | Page: 15 | Tags: none

DINBURGH, the beautiful metropolis of | Scotland, occupies a site in the northern \ — part of the county of

... It was at Holyrood Palace that Rezzio L:s murdered ;in the Castle James VI. was | ™ ; and in the Chapel Royal Mary was married to Bothwell. The historic houses of the 014 Town have been largely cleared away, | nj from their ashes have risen the lovely ...

Published: Saturday 02 May 1896
Newspaper: The Regiment
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1706 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

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... d.;, Here 1t > shall have guard our ace for the Two days ‘ Dragoon in atic that he ideways, to eggimento” e with him, s a married | nly gasped e machine, s and dots. cost of this ds a week 1d Eve, the ry palace a 1 a decoraarland put tells me he to see ...

Published: Saturday 02 May 1896
Newspaper: The Regiment
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 113 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

) @) @) ) TOLD by the REGIMENTAL DOG

... horrible din and uproar. Our Figlia del Reggimento has had fourteen offers of marriage, through the post. She says she will not marry anyone unless he is a soldierofficer with £lO,OOO a year. She has had her portrait taken, and asks us, in the .interest of ...

Published: Saturday 02 May 1896
Newspaper: The Regiment
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 793 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

)) @) ) TOLD by the REGIMENTAL DGCC

... wonderful thing® and he says that there was a Spanish dogg!® there just like me. I know who it is. MY grandl)ather’s son married my aunt’s niece, wh? was born in a castle in Spain, so we are very closely connected. I shall have to go and se€® Mr. Hitchins ...

Published: Saturday 09 May 1896
Newspaper: The Regiment
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 914 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

VICE-ADMIRAL BOWDEN-SMITH, who was recently Commander-in-Chief on the Australian Station, is of opinion that ..

... officer who marries at twenty-one and dies the following year leaves his widow provided for by a generous country. As marriages late in life in_ the navy are discouraged by the regulation which denies a pension tothe widow of an officer who marries after sixty ...

Published: Saturday 09 May 1896
Newspaper: The Regiment
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 309 | Page: 13 | Tags: none