The adieu of the ninety-third to Scotland.
Tarr, Samuel.
[Edinburgh? : s.n.,
1857?]
This was likely printed between March 6th and May 31st 1857. There are references to the Crimea throughout and the words 'With Hay, Hope, and Ewart, to the East we soon go' [6th verse]. There are no references to the Indian Mutiny where the 93rd won 6 Victoria Crosses. Therefore the printing date most probably falls in the short time that the regiment was in the UK between the Crimea and the mutiny. The fourth verse has the line "The thin red line formed". This may be the very earliest use of this famous phrase, predating the OED's documentation of its supposed first usage in a book published in 1877.
Signed: Samuel Tarr.
The poem is surrounded by an ornamental border.
This was likely printed between March 6th and May 31st 1857. There are references to the Crimea throughout and the words 'With Hay, Hope, and Ewart, to the East we soon go' [6th verse]. There are no references to the Indian Mutiny where the 93rd won 6 Victoria Crosses. Therefore the printing date most probably falls in the short time that the regiment was in the UK between the Crimea and the mutiny. The fourth verse has the line "The thin red line formed". This may be the very earliest use of this famous phrase, predating the OED's documentation of its supposed first usage in a book published in 1877.
Great Britain. Army. Sutherland Highlanders. Battalion, 93rd