SCOTS' GUARDS' COLOURS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 10306, 7 March 1922, Page 4

SCOTS' GUARDS' COLOURS.

A FAMOUS HISTORY. The historic colours of the Scots Guards, carried through the Egyptian campaign in 1801 and afterwards passing to New Zealand, where they were presented to Prince of Wales during his world-tour, were recently pesented to Glasgow Cathedral by Field-Marshal Lord Methuen. An impressive ceremony attended the presentation, and the officers and, the band of the old regiment took part in. the service, which was also attended by civic, ecclesiastical, and legal representees.'''' At the begining of the last century the colours, which are now tattered and faded, became the property of Colonel, , afterwards General, Sir Samuel Dalrymple, who left them to his nephew, Wemyss Dalrymple. They were lent by him to be carried at the'inauguration of the Duke of Wellington's memorial in Glasgow in 1844. The colours afterwards went to New Zealand, and a descendant of the Dalrymple family, Mrs. Hankins, handed them to the Prince of Wales in 1920, for presentation to the regiment in recognition of its services during the Great War. The colours now come to rest in Glasgow Cathedral. How General Dalrymple came into possession of the colours was related to the. Prince of Wales by Mrs. Hankins when he visited Palmerston North (New Zealand) in May, 1920. Relating the incident, . the "Daily Telegraph" special correspondent with the Prince wrote: "During the Battle of Alexandria, a young ensign who carried the colours fell mortally wounded. Dalrymple, who was officer of the day, seized the colours from the dying colourbearer, and carried them safelv through the action. Afterwards, as was bis right, he retained the colours as his own possession. The colours thus ■became a heirloom of the Dalrymplo ' family, and were iakon to New Zealand fifty years ago by Mrs. Hauki'n's father, who ' was General Dalrymple's grand-nephew.