SOLDIER AND SAILOR TOO!

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 13, 31 August 1911, Page 7

SOLDIER AND SAILOR TOO!

TJio fact, that' Colonel -Seely, M.P., Under-Sedrotary of State for War, lias had experience in both the land and Sea services recalls’ many others who, like His Majesty the King, can' claim to he “soldier and sailor, too.” There is Field-Marshall Sir Evelyn Wood, Y.C., who. served as a “middy” in the Crimea, and, after being severely u minded, transferred to the 13th Light Dragoons; and General Sir .John French is the son of a naval officer, and was marked out for a naval career, joining the Britannia at the age of fourteen. But, after a few .'.cars of life afloat, the superior attractions of life in’ a crack cavalry corps claimed him. General Sir Henry Hildyard, K.C.8., is another of the very select double-handed hand; for, after being educated at the Royal Naval Academy, he served afloat from 18od to 1864 before going into the Highland Light Infantry. Then the Marquis of Queensberry was a midshipman in the Royal Navy before accepting a commission in the King’s Own Scottish, Borderers; the Earl of Dalkeith has served both before the mast and in the Roxburgh Rifle Volunteers ;while Major ArcherShee, M.P., like General Sir John French, allowed the glamour of the 19th Hussars to wean him from thp Royal “Navee.” .