The Fifth has been remarkable for the number of its special 3entions including those of General Meadows at St. Lucia, by the general at Winkel, the Duke of ington at El Boden, Havelock. at Lucknow, Lord Roberts in the Black Mountains and General Douglas in South Africa, The 2nd Battalion was in the night march on Stormberg and I was with it When. the: Boers ambushed the] column, Those Tyneside lads ex. tricoted themselves with wonderful courage and when clear of the trap! tone of them shouted "Chin, chin, brother Boer, no more fighting today", which produced laughter from the exhausted men, who at] the end of the retreat and after a rest started a game of football. In the Great War, the age old poplarity of the Fifth was emphasized by the Regiment taking into the Reld the largest number of battalions of any corps, namely 52. So numerous were they that special] ft brigades of them were formed" such he' Pioneers, Tyneside Ssottsh ud Tyneside Irish, each of four Enttalions and' the" regiment teak Tare in St batten in Bole France, Ialy, Macedonia, Gali and Egypt
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