[97] I received at the same time an offer to go abroad with a General officer whom I had known in India as his Military Secretary, but declined the offer, feeling sure that we should not find each other’s society congenial.
[98] Author of Parkes’ Hygiene.
[99] Aldershot.
[100] Rent.
[101] Later, Major-General Sir George Colley.
[102] The Aldershot Railway was not then projected.
[103] A local nickname, from an expression often used by the Colonel.
[104] That is, each battalion would have a frontage of one company composed of two halves of different companies.
[105] The custom was so widely spread, that the “Wait-a-Bits,” an old-fashioned but one of the steadiest battalions I ever knew at Aldershot, asked me when I was Brigade-Major to be allowed to give up their place in line of columns in order to avoid standing next to a very vituperative though brave Commanding officer.
[106] At Arroyo dos Molinos, in the Peninsular, 1811, the French 34th was captured by the English Regiment of the same number. The representative bands rushed at each other, with the result that the baton of the Tambour Major and ten of the French Regiment drums remained in the hands of our 34th.