The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1897-12-11

Cable dispatches in the World from
Simla, India, have recently had good
deal to say about the Gordon Highlan-
ders, whose First battalion, with the
regiment of Ghurkas, bore the brunt
of the fight when the British forces
stormed Dargai Ridge and captured
the almost impregnable positions of
the tribesmen few weeks ago. The
Gordon Highlanders, or "Gordon's
Own" as it is called in army parlance,
is better known to Scotchmen by It's
old title, 1.-The Seventy-fifth of the
line" or the Stirlingshire Regiment of
foot.
The members of the Ninety-second
were the original Gordon Highlanders,
and they, in 1881, were amalgamated
with the Seventy-ffth, under the lat
ter's title, into one territorial regi-
ment. The old name of the Ninety
second was at first forgotten, but was
later to reappear as more significant
of the deeds of the newly formed reg
iment. The union of the regiments
iment.
OF the two regiments however, the
Seventy-fifth is the older, having been
raised before the autumn of 1889, or
seven years before the original Cor
don Highlanders were formed. The
regiment had it's first taste of glory
in India, where it was Immediately or
dered, taking part in the siege and
capture of Seringapatam, in 1879, and
remaining there until 1906. IN 1909
the designation and with it the uni
form of the regiment, was changed
from the Seventy-fifth Highlanders TO
the Seventy-fifth foot, which was re-
tanned until 1862, when it became the
Seventy-fifth Stirlingshire, in remen-
brance of its origin. r
The regiment unfortunately did not
have an opportunity to take part in
either the Spanish or the Waterloo
campaigns against Napoleon, but 1t
served with great distinction in the
Katfir war of 1885, and during the In
dian Mutiny, where it took part in the
siege and capture of Delhi, and in the
famous march to the relief of Luck
now in 1857, immortalized by Tenny
sons poem written in memory of the
Princess Alice.
In 1863 monument was erected on
a commanding eminence in the ceme-
terry of the city of Stirling, Scotland,
to the memory of the officers, 13 SER
geants, 8 corporals, drummers and
216 enlisted men of the regiment, who
fell in the mutiny. The Egyptian cam
paign of 1882 followed and found the
| Seventyfifth, as the newly united
First Battalion of the Gordon Highlan-
ders, marching side by side with the
Seventy-ninth, the Forty-second and
h. e.,
genuine Highland brigade, under the
command of Lieut.. Gen. L. B. Hamley
At the storming of Tel-el-Kebir, Gen.
Allison wrote that it was a noble
sight to see the Gordon and Cameron
Highlanders mingled together in the
confusion of the fight, their young Of
ficers leading with waving swords,
their pipes screaming and that CLEAN
in the eyes of the men which you see
only in the hour of successful battle"
The two Soudan campaigns gave the
First battalion of the Gordon High
| landers further opportunities for dis
tinction. At the battle of FL Teb the
brunt of the Arab onset fell on the
BLACK Watch, "Gordon's Own" and
the Naval Brigade, while at the battle
| of lanai. one of the most trying en-
gagements in which a British force
had ever entered, the Gordons formed
half of the front ana the whole of the
right face of the first brigade square,
commanded by Sir Redvers Butler And
again in 1SS4-5 Gordon's Own served
in the second Nile expedition, but did
, not arrive at Kirbekan in time to
take part in the final bloody contest.
Gordon's Own was sent to Ceylon in
1883, and five years later was ordered
to India. where in the spring of 1895
it occupied a position in the Chitral
expeditionary corps under Sir Robert
Low At Chitral and in the stormIng
of the Malakand Pass it won for itself
great glaly. And according to the
Simla dispatches, Gordon's Own has
just repeated these feats in the Cha
CRU Kotal.