Historical records of the 91st Argyllshire ... - waughfamily.ca

246 HISTORICAL RECORDS OP THE1870. landers comprise exactly one half the period ofits existence as a corps, and he has held commandduring a fifth part of its history." Years have gone by since every officer, noncommissionedofficer, and private soldier, withwhom he stood in the noble ranks, when hecommenced his career in the army, have passedaway.For twelve years Colonel Gordon has beenthe very last of the 800 who formed the ArgyllshireRegiment of 1832, and in its ranks of thepresent day he leaves behind him but one soldierwho shared with him those(Lieutenant Grant)hours of impending death, when he commandedthe reserve battalion of the regiment in 1842,cast away on the shores of Africa,in that darknight of tempest, when its disciplineand devotioncame forth from the shattered wreck unbrokenand undiminished by that sorest trial. ColonelGordon calls to mind, that he has served underthree stands of colours presented to the regiment,and that at the recommendation of H.R.H., hewas permitted, by the favour of her Majesty, toannounce to his old regiment, seven years ago,the restoration of that nationality in its designationand uniform, under which it was embodied byits ducal chieftain in the last century.