Category: Humour
_The_ Glesca Mileeshy was a noble force, recruited from the Weary Willies and Never-works of the famous town of Glasgow. It was also a regiment with traditions, for in the dim and distant past it had been founded by 1000 heroic scallywags from out of the city jails. These men...
_The_ soldier of to-day is a very different person to the one of fifty years ago. In the past, all that was asked of a Tommy was clean buttons, a padded chest, and handling of a...
17. CHAPTER XVII._The_ preceding chapters have given you the fun of the game, but do not imagine the training of this corps was fun--and nothing more. The Glesca Mileeshy spent many weary days a...
19. CHAPTER XIX."Yes, sir. Isn't it wonderful how a man like that, born in the slums, has all the instinct of a leader, as well as the pluck of a dozen ordinary men."
10. CHAPTER X._When_ Spud arrived at Bogmoor Camp he found the regiment in an excited but jovial mood. They were going to war. War, to militiamen, meant bounties, blood, and loot. Though thes...
11. CHAPTER XI._If_ the officers of His Majesty's Service have a wonderful innings in the piping times of peace, they have a very rough outing in the time of war. It is not all beer and skittl...
18. CHAPTER XVIII._Roadways_ are the mainsprings of an army. They are more precious than jewels. When captured they have to be jealously guarded. For this purpose the drill-book says you must hav...
14. CHAPTER XIV._Giddy_ Greens, to whom you have already been introduced, was a queer fellow. He was a mixture of Beau Brummel, Caesar, and Don Juan--one who dressed well, fought well, and kiss...
5. CHAPTER V._The_ unwritten laws of the Glesca Mileeshy were as rigid as the etiquette of the Brigade of Guards. The most important was that which compelled recruits to "stand their hand,"...
3. CHAPTER III._Sergeant_ Cursem could drill anything from an elephant to a baboon. His figure was a walking advertisement for Lipton's, while his voice resembled the rasping fog-horns on the...
16. CHAPTER XVI._The_ end of the year is always a merry--and a critical--time in a Scottish regiment. Since the invention of whisky and haggis, New Year has become the season of high feeding an...
15. CHAPTER XV._Uneasy_ lies the head that wears a captain's crown, for the lot of a company officer is like that of a policeman--not a very happy one. He is not only captain of 120 souls, but...
2. CHAPTER II._The_ Depot in Blacktoon was a somewhat ancient affair. In its palmiest days the blood-sucking Hanoverian mercenaries of King Geordie had been quartered there. And during the Ru...
12. CHAPTER XII._The_ General Staff is improving. Red Tape is being killed; common-sense is beginning to triumph. It took exactly two hundred and fifty years for our General Staff to realise th...
9. CHAPTER IX."_Dear Mither_,--I'm weel. I hop' you fayther an' the dug's weel. I've been made a heid yin here. The Kurnel made me a Lance-Korperal for distingwishet kondukt. I expect to get...
6. CHAPTER VI._Spud_, having experienced the usual ragging affairs, was now a full-fledged confidant of the older hands. And being of a mischievous turn of mind, he seized every opportunity t...
8. CHAPTER VIII._The_ annual training of the Glesca Mileeshy was an event of importance. It cleared the Models and allowed the local policemen an opportunity for holidays. To the gallant Militi...
1. CHAPTER I._The_ Glesca Mileeshy was a noble force, recruited from the Weary Willies and Never-works of the famous town of Glasgow. It was also a regiment with traditions, for in the dim a...
7. CHAPTER VII._It_ was Lord Wolseley, I think, who discovered that the ordinary soldier had really got brains. When this startling discovery was made, the General Staff realised that lectures...
4. CHAPTER IV."That's the 'Dandy Major.' He can scoff a bottle tae his brekfist. He's awfu' fond o' actresses. They ca' him 'Dandy Dick.' He wis in the Regulars, but he got chucked oot for hi...