Drummed Out.
SENSATION AT A SCOTCH VOLUNTEER CAMP. The encampment of 6,000 Glasgow Volunteers, at Gailes, Ayrshire, was, this weak (27th July), the scene of a painful incident resulting in the whole band of the 4th Lanarkshire Volunteers being drummed out of the regiment. The men refused, on Thursday morning, to parade and accompany the regiment to the usual manoeuvres, on the plea that they ware not receiving sufficient pay. The insubordination being reported at headquarters the whole band were placed i under arrest. In the afternoon the colonel ordered the regiment to parade, and the bandsmen, as prisoners, were brought to the front. Coknal Smith, addressing the men, said that such insubordination was unknown in the annals of the Volunteers, and he ordered the bandsmen to be stripped of their regimental facings. This having been done, Colonel Smith said; “ I dismiss you from the service aa a disgrace to the . regiment to which you belong and to ] Iba uniform whichyou are wearing* ;
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Manawatu Herald, 6 September 1902, Page 3
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163Drummed Out. Manawatu Herald, 6 September 1902, Page 3
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