[Report 1895] / Medical Officer of Health, Slough U.D.C.
- Slough (England). Urban District Council.
- Date:
- 1895
Licence: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Credit: [Report 1895] / Medical Officer of Health, Slough U.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![THE slodg; ERT, FLO s & so Lnd they ought to take every opportunity they kould get for saying that they appreciated their riving a great deal of time and trouble to what Lfter all was rather an irksome task (applaus'« Mr. Murton then gave a masterly renditi The Death of Nelson.” Lieut. Allhusen said he had no blood-curdw Experiences of war to relate, and not having^ learned any statistics about the army, his reply 10 the toast so ably preposed by Mr. Parry I would be very short. He believed that of the I three main branches of the regular army the I Artillery were able to do the nation the most! Iredit. He thought that without a doubt the I lorse artillery was the finest of its kind in any I krmy ; in fact, he believed they had that froml Ls high a military authority as the GermanI Emperor, who saw a lot of soldiers, and wasl rery difficult to please, so that if he was satis-l |ed we ought to be (laughter). He did not knowl luch about the infantry, but it seemed to himl It the present time they came in for a great deal] If abuse, which when the time came ior action Iroyed to be g^uite unmerited. After all thej were men who nad joined of their own free wil lnd therefore were better than conscript mei rear, hear, and applause). As regarded hid Iwn branch of the service, the Cavalry, he be] Veved that was looked upon as a bugbear by irge number of British tax-payers. They werd ^opposed to hunt, play polo, and do no work! ind their only advantage was that they lookecf jtice, but they did not always do that (laughter)! With regard to their work, he should like foi tne of the discontented tax-payers to go td kldershot, and go through a week's traioins irith them. He thought that at the end of th] reek he would be a good deal lighter in weighl tnd a good deal heavier in experience, whiclf vould do him no harm (laughter). Captain A. J. de Winton, in responding, sail be was down at Portsmouth about a month agl [nd he saw a good deal which was exceedinglj ateresting and he was able to tell at a glanc Ibat the Navy were anything but idle. As fa Lb his own observation went, they wore a verl [ne set of men indeed, and he did not thin| ley need have any fears as regarded tb Iciency of the Navy. With regard to tl [^olunteers, it was a very great honour for hi[| belong to them, and he was glad to thir lat perhaps the time had passed when it neede pology for being a volunteer. A short time ag |o was talking to somebody about the dearth dicers for volunteers and he asked what was tb bason for it. He received the reply “ Well, fl [long time the Volunteer officer has always be^ snsidered the fool of the family (laughteJ Lowever that might be, he was assured that tU jlunteer officer was no longer the fool of tff Imily but was going to be the smartest man I With regard to his own regiment, they h] Itely had a great accession of young officeif [ho bid fair to be a credit to the corps. Havi] pserved that they were going to Shornclifife [ Lmp in August, he said he was proud to s| |at the Slough Company held a very high pla I the battalion of tlie 1st Bucks, and th| [ways received the highest commendation frc lople in camp. They went about holding thJ ^ds very high, feeling that they were a sort] [odel as to drill and the way in which tb Lrned out, and they naturally got themselvel peat deal disliked by some of the other col inies. He was sure they would all be interest hear that in shooting the 1st Bucks stood fij 1894 in the United Kingdom. This year tli bped to be very high, and as it stood they w] [ry well first in the Home Counties Voluntc pplause). That meant that their average sb pre higher than any other battalion witj 9.ch of them, and that meant good, stea ^ular shooting of all the men who went I was sometimes said that the Volunteers si round better than the regulars, but it wasf [solute fallacy ; it would be absurd to think t sn who could only give a little time now [ain could be as good as those whogav^ feir lives to it. They could pick ten as](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30090659_0002.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
