The Archive · 1898

GARRISON INTELLIGENCE

The P. and O. steamer Ceylon, which arrived here on the 25th inst., brought the '25th company Eastern Division, Royal Artillery. The company consisted of seven oficers and 149 rank and file. This is the first instalment of the 400 additional artillery set down in the estimates for the current The Mount Austin Barracks are now fully occupied, and Tommy Atkins isa good deal in evidence on the Peak Roads in the evening, He behaves very creditably and it is to be hoped all regiments will take pattern by the West Yorks and Royal Lancasters. The soldiers are very wisely led out in the early morning for evolutions and marches, roads, is becoming quite an accustomed and the tramp of armed feet on the hill

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