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9 1ST ARGYLLSHIRE HIGHLANDERS. 211By England's monarch ;none <strong>the</strong>se marks efface, 1856.They tell <strong>of</strong> Queenly trust, and loyalty approved <strong>of</strong> God."Orders were afterwards issued to <strong>the</strong> troops in<strong>ca</strong>mp, by direction <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Duke <strong>of</strong> Cambridge,<strong>ca</strong>llingattention to <strong>the</strong> manner in which <strong>the</strong>lines <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> <strong>91st</strong> <strong>ca</strong>mp were kept, and desiringthat <strong>the</strong> same order and <strong>the</strong> same efforts toprocure occupations and amusements for <strong>the</strong>soldiers might be made in o<strong>the</strong>r regiments. Astrict order was at <strong>the</strong> same time issued to <strong>the</strong>Barrack departmentto maintain <strong>the</strong> inscriptionson <strong>the</strong> " Queen's Hut,"as it was <strong>ca</strong>lled.On <strong>the</strong> 7th <strong>of</strong> July <strong>the</strong> lieutenant-generalcommanding at Aldershot (General Knollys)unexpectedly visited <strong>the</strong> lines <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> <strong>91st</strong>, and onleaving expressed himself highly satisfied ;on<strong>the</strong> same day orders were received for <strong>the</strong> depotcompaniesto move at a moment's notice toBerwick-on-Tweed and <strong>the</strong> same evening, herMajesty again visited <strong>the</strong> lines <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> regiment,and stopped to read <strong>the</strong> superscriptions on <strong>the</strong>hut she had previously visited.The next day <strong>the</strong> companies<strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> <strong>91st</strong> leftAldershot, and arrived at Berwick on <strong>the</strong>10th, having stopped en route at Peterboroughand York.

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