"It now became necessary," wrote Lord Roberts, "to take this position by storm, wenising the fact with true soldierly jor White, who was leading the of the 2nd, called j urge More, The battery. of ow guns had been shelling the position, and, under cover of its fire, and supported by x portion of the 2nd' Gurkhas and rd Pioneers, the TT respond: ing with alacrity to the leader's call, dashed ud drove the enemy from their ouchments at the point of the bayonet. Major White was the first to revel the guns, being closely followed by Sepoy Tnderbir Lama, wh ing is ville on one of them, exela Captured in the name of xd (Prince of Wales's Own) vonder that Roberts oftieds as the nil ever foremost Major White," and that wrote: "Und battle in India Tt is only a thousand pities that his entire regiment, with himself at the head it, was not 'a few months Tater present, fon Majuba Hill when this position assaulted and taken by the Boers. That it was captured was mainly due to the circumstance that the holders of the hill consisted of a small heterogeneous force, including only a. couple of -with no real unity of command or and insutticient ammunition, Had the hill "Id by the entice batallion of the with Stewart White, now Lieut.- at their head, the result would ave been very different.
sister to a portion of his g vieved more than t heir coun when recently, he was Sent out to South Africa to take command aral Field Force, of which his own rined a part, he by the reflection at the wi of fate are truly wonderful, if the mil of God grind slowly they sind exceeding "Gay Gordons" had d from one Majuba when they were overtaken with another, and one which wounded their regimental pride still more deeply. This was the year in which tras introddiced the linked battalion system of Mr. Cardwell; and the 92nd, lying mped near Neweastle at the foot of the rakensherg Range, heard to their dismay that, ander the new system, there had been created a regiment of Gordon Highlanders of which the 75th, (Stirlingshire) was to be the Ist. battalion, and they the 2nd.!_ No wonder that at midnight, on lst July, 18s1, the officers and nen of the 92nd, formed themselves into torchlight funeral procession, with Lieut.-t'elonel" White one of the pall-bearers, to carry the effigy of an old Gordon Highlander to his grave amidst the mufiied roll of drums and the wailing of the; pipes—thero. to lie till the resurrection—which took place next day
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