BLACK WATCH AT CHURCH

Waipa Post, Volume 32, Issue 1780, 8 July 1926, Page 3

BLACK WATCH AT CHURCH

Attached is part of a letter (says a writer in the Weekly Scotsman) from my son, a private in the Black Watch, stationed in India. Perhaps the information he gives re the band may be of general interest to a number of readers, who remember the lines from " The Burial of Sir John Moore ": — Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note. As his corpse to the ramparts was hurried; Not a soldier discharged a farewell shot O'er the grave where our hero was buried. EXTRACT FROM LETTER " What I said in one of my previous letters about our band hot playing us to church since Corunna is quite true. Of course, tba> rule did not affect both battalions, as it was only this battalion (the 42nd) that took part at Corunna. It was supposed, to be the wish of Sir John Moore,before he died at Corunna that our band should never play us to church. We would have been going to church without our band yiet if it had not been for our CO., who wrote to the War Office asking for permission to have our band on church parade. Sunday, 15th November, 19125, is the date on which the band re-commenced playing us to church sines 1809."