BRITAIN'S NEW CORPS.
A COMPANY OF GILLIES. LONDON, 3rd January. As Colonel Sir Howard Vincent (M.P. for Central Sheffield) is unfit for active service, the Earl of Albemarle will command the regiment of volunteers that has been raised by the Lord Mayor of London. [Lord Albemarle was formerly Colonel Commanding the Princo of Wales's Own 12th Middlesex Volunteer Rifles (Civil Service Rifles), and is a grandson of the Earl of Albemarle who served at Waterloo. He is 42 years of age.] Lord Lovat, formerly a lieutenant in the First Life Guards, and now a captain in the Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders, is taking 150 Highland gillies to the Cape as stalkers. They are all good shots, and will take a supply of ponies with them. (Received January 5, 9.30 a.m.) LONDON, 4th January. The enthusiasm over the enlistment of the Yeomanry in England for service in South Africa continues unabated. The Imperial Volunteer corps raised in the city will include a battery of four Vickers's 12^-inch guns, manned by the Honourable Artillery Company, the oldest volunteer company in England. Field-Marshal Lord Roberts, the new Commander-in-Chief in South' Africa, lately asked that a number of additional officers on special service be sent to the Cape.
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Evening Post, Volume LIX, Issue 4, 5 January 1900, Page 5
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204BRITAIN'S NEW CORPS. Evening Post, Volume LIX, Issue 4, 5 January 1900, Page 5
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