9th-12th-Lancers - Year 2002 - Page 0085
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| Regiment | 9th/12th Lancers |
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| Year | 2002 |
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REGIMENTAL JOURNAL OF THE 9TH/12TH ROYAL LANCERS (PRINCE OF WALES’S) 83 . .‘ 'l‘\ The grave of Co/one/ B/oomf/e/d Gough town, had arrived. Some weeks earlier, Goughie and May had been thrown out of the same dogcart and their horse seems to have been a wayward character. Ironically Goughie, who had survived two wars against such redoubtable adversaries as Afghans and Boers, had been killed in what his obituary in the Berwickshire Advertiser described as a melancholy and deplorable accident. The paper concluded its tribute eloquently: ‘During his residence in the Borders, Colonel Gough had endeared himself to a large circle of friends by his manly character and open and frank disposition and his cheery presence will be much missed in the hunting-field’JS Goughie was buried in the Leitholm Cemetery under a splendid headstone and the inscrip- tion: Erected by his old comrades of the Ninth Lancers and the bib- lical quotation: As he bringeth them unto their desired haven‘ evi- dence, if such is needed, of the regard in which he was held by the Regiment. Notes Hy Wilson Memories of Anton’s Hill Privately published 1954. This disaster is graphically described in a letter from Z/Lt. Lord Frederick Blackwood to his father, Lord Dufferin, a former Viceroy of India. Blackwood lost all three of his chargers. Diary of the 9th Q.R. Lancers during the South African Campaign The grave of Mrs May Gough 1899-1902 Lt. Col. FF. Colvin and Capt. E. R. Gordon Cecil Roy, London 1904. pp.6-9. The Ninth Queen’s Royal Lancers 1715-1936 E. W. Sheppard Gale & Polden Aldershot 1939 p.191 Thomas Pakenham The Boer War Weidenfeld & Nicolson London 1979 p.191 Colvin & Gordon p.28 The Marquess of Anglesey A History of the British Cavalry 1816-1919 Vol. 41899 -l913 p.80 Pakenham p.195 Sheppard p.192 Methuen Papers Wiltshire County Records Trobridge Berwickshire Advertiser July 5 1904 Mehuen Papers Quoted in Anglesey p.78 Anglesey pp. 84-85 Lord Roberts to Lord Lansdowne Secretary of State for War January 29 1900 Quoted in Pakenham p.333 Berwickshire Advertiser July 5 1904 Please Remember A donation, a covenant, a legacy or through the Payroll Giving Scheme to The Army Benevolent Fund will help ex-soldiers and their families in need. WE WILL NEVER FORGET YOU THE ARMY BENEVOLENT FUND DEPT. CRST. 41 QUEENS GATE, LONDON SW7 5HR A registered Charity No, 21 1645 |
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