The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 22, 1902, Page 6

6 THE SUNDAY CALL. Fredezri CHAR. L5~ STowEs BUsH » CONTINGENT Brooie St JonmN lv CorDOMN 5 HIGRLANDER S nfif<~' 2O%U S INfan = OF TIw TERIC AN BRITISWw Ririgs rederick r command- mous the that baptism of to Ulundi 2 s s inually en- x 5 . o mmer_and De- ey entrenched posi- His 1 the proud claim Tany Americans and heroic ser- , upon ar forward In an ex- h line, and later famous march from T troops march- terrific downpour of ust at ted and intended e te more clc the bonds of T k those who r both th g # K ayh $ 3 { baptism of the British flag—army or > Rés ; : ¢ me time keep alive | n l\;}{y‘l‘f‘_: eeds valor done by hitherto ir des, the mem- Montal- the scope of the or- g were de those who have part ot hers by doing s amalig. e satisfactory ns the call of duty—the paign, when they the open, and lowed adminis- without losing a of blood should be which clamors for develop all those that most el T / GimbDwWoo™ ) has served with A. Nathan, who is dvocate of the son of California, m Washington's the America ashamed of the land o offer no apology for the arents, and at home r adoption, but they give s o instead ev evidence of that master . N & spt nde e manhood, which 15 S e and stronger than na- where he tion and something better and the mounwiuside at Dargal, where deat’ . the Philip- v ¢ e re-Sv o nobler than & mere mess of pottage—the en strewcd every foot of the fire-sw "phia, was the y Américz s ngliel » zone that lay between her Majesty's b Y g tizenship means more T0OPS and the wild natives, strongly in- “He had stated on the day of the fight zenship mean *® trenched on the summit. It was one of he had, acting on Lieutenant Langlsdale’s 1 it is their the most gallant and deadly assaults in t % instructions, hidden the bedy of Colt gur in a certain place, ands believed he cotld find it. When we reached the scene of the tight I happened to be quite near to Fisher. He said that he -had hidden the gun under a heap nut leav and remarked: where about here, and i that heap it was in all that the history of modern warfare, but M. °h would St. John nct only passed through it safely but enlisted in the American arms soon as he was honorably discharged from the British army, and is now nga.- ing the Filipinos a member of iha Twenty xth United States Infantry in the Philippines. Another member of the Rifles good military r at ly in its infancy as : vho h enough, young . ot organization of vet- Jin.iCtive service in the British army SATTAIN the next heap, discovered +i Ky % el the . hRil Lieute Grimwood, who for years was rusty, of course, but just in the po- erans ve seen t ardest wore the honorell plaids of the famous &S PEACOQ sition where it had been placed. s battery and most rvice in all the Scottish regiment “Fisher showed me where the gun was L% specially great modern wars. .In this corps are _ Another eran of the British service when Lieutenant Landsdale as first of honor men who have fought in many lands this IS Color Sergeant I. H. Coates of the shot. It was on the side of ti road, e complete hout Americ the cld n-British Rifles, who fought in Jject to ‘“transfer,” as nis youngest so. i Maori war as one of the Frank, wears with all the ‘espiit of h near the wire fence. The ejector of a Fiftieth, known as the “Queen’s sire the smart khaki of the Amerlcan gun had failed to work, an empty had remained in the breech, and, list of er long The Maoris emi n New Zealand ¥Wrizht, late eap- Sufrey Regiment, ane, London. The Zulu and the Matabele in South Own,” commanded by that intrepid lead- British Rifles, in which corps he is come cartridge coming up, had caused 1S chosen one s Bt er, Lieutenant General Sir Duncan Cam- missioned as the bugler mascot. i s ol il g .ot ey e Boers in the ansv. eron. And here is a story of the close to the fence, trying to clegr of Wales). The Epaniard in Cuba and the Spaniard . Sergeant Coates was present at the one of our compand. Which xs"fgi’és‘,'&o‘r’é &un. when ho Was shoé bt the. I8 e was in_the Philippines. storming of many of the native “pas’— graphically than [ could set it down, he told Fisher to ta body 1 with him: The Filipinos in Samar. 4 those strongholds so palisaded and in- iL is the naval report to the British gun and hide it. dia. h rlie Beres- The Indians on_the American frontier. trench Imost impregnable, Government following the combined at- the result th. point out e Afglh ns & Cabul and at Khyber even to Iso the fortified tack of the Americans and the English s camps of Kuitkara and Roherea and Nu- on Mataafa during the Samoan rebel- Samoans at Apia. Ku Mara. The sergeant was twice lion: . the spot weeks afterwarc “The Philadelphia men were very pl el to get their gun back again, as- nd The savages of Northwest Canada. wounded under fire, and now wears the “In company with a strong detachment Fisher deserves great credit, fi for so dly » and good : that Indeed, some of the men are not only medal with its proud inscription “Ver- of British sailors and about 500 friendly thoroughly obeying the orders of his alwavs -existed veterans of the English wars, but of the tutis Honor. He is a pensioner under natives, I visited the Vailele plantation, officer at so critical a time, and then Eut th as well. One of the mo. 1h(-‘ British Government, but the scene of the fight on April 1. The for remembering so well where he had ‘itel for s of this is Brodle St. astic American, a s main object of the expedition was to see truly remarkable record hever fails to register and g whether the Mataafa people had cleared credit. . as good a citizen as he was a gallant bevond the eastern boundaries, and, of Sie whs one of the famous Gordon ooldier. course, to examine the country generally. Highlanders in that terrible charge up The “military blood” is evidently sub- F. B. Fisher, gunner's mate from the placed the barrel of the gun Of the other men in our organization who have fought under the Union Jack, and the Unior none has had a more notable career than any other « Charles L. Stokes, who served as trooper could we ha Z Teater s who have