REGIENTAL MASCOTS

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 3108, 29 December 1921, Page 6

REGIENTAL MASCOTS

hCfl'lo GLARDS COWS. Regimental mascots are many and various in the Briifdi Army, bill dm 2nd Ha it-a I ion Scobs (luaVis is probably the only unit, possessing a' mascot which is more useful than ornamental- two ilelgian cows. Tho animals were caplmvd by the Scots al Dmiirbaix during the war on the Western I' ron( leip and their pel names are Delia and Bertha. They were attached (0 the. iiaihdion at the first hat Me of Ypres and went through die \ arioiis engagenmups, ae eompanving lim Imll a I ion into Germany alter the arinisi me. '! he men are greedy attached 1., their pets, partieulurly those who marched with them at the front. The Guard-man who first had charge of the animad was killed, and they were 1 lieu transferred to the cure of Guardsman Marshall, who saw that they did mil lack food in fit;- bailie area. Though they were not odicially on die strength of dm battalion, he managed io commandeer sufficient turnips and clover to keep diem, and in return due cows provided an excellent supply of milk. When die Sen's Guards came home the Iwo cows were included in the Victory .March through Loudon. They have been decorated by many of dm agricultural asociatious .4' dm country, and the Prince of Walt's has accepted one of the live calves horn lo them. By permission of the King the cows have been allowed to graze on the Royal meadows at Krogninre. Large sums of money have been offered for their purchase, lint the battalion would not pari with the.ir mascots.