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nave, both of which, much to the improvement of the edifice, have 
since been removed. The church was completely filled with the soldiers, 
regulars and volunteers. The Trinity College Company, together with 
the other companies of the Queen’s Own Rifles, were placed in the lines 
of seats in the upper West gallery facing the nave. At the recital of 
the Apostles’ Creed, when all the congregation rose to their feet, the 
Trinity company by an intuitive movement simultaneously faced to 
the left towards the chancel, an undesigned coincidence from force of 
Chapel habit which, thus italicizing the location of the company in the 
gallery, afterwards caused some amusing comment. 
This spell of daily drill, after continuing for three weeks, was 
discontinued, and we returned again to the even but much interrupted 
tenor of college study, yet only to have it all completely stopped by the 
final call to arms. 
The volunteers had been instructed to hold themselves in readiness 
for any immediate summons and drill had been kept up on one day in 
each week. 
I had in the interval received appointment as Ensign in the 10th 
Royals, the regiment which had been raised in 1860 under my father, 
Col. Cumberland, and from the command of which he had retired in 
the autumn of 1865 upon his appointment as Provincial A.D.C. to Lord 
Dufferin. 
Although not gazetted until December, 1866, I had at once under- 
taken my new duties, turned in my equipment as a private in the 
Queen’s Own, and was in May in the service of the 10th Royals. 
The second call was sudden. On the evening of the 3lst of May 
during a concert being held in the Music Hall, Toronto, public announce- 
ment was made from the platform, that a raid on the Niagara frontier 
was impending, the Queen’s Own had been called out for active service 
and were to assemble in the drill shed at 4 next morning. The 
news was fast distributed through the city, and much regret was felt 
that the 10th had not also been summoned. 
Then began at Trinity a hurry and a scurry of preparation. The 
night was far gone in the furbishing of uniforms and accoutrements 
and the getting of things ready for the journey. The welcome news 
came later during the night that the 10th were also to parade at noon 
next day for movement to the front. In the early morning, donning 
my uniform as ensign which I kept in my room at college, I sallied out 
to my father’s house on College Street, adjacent to the University 
buildings, chafing on the way under the delays of the overcrowded 
rattle-trap horse cars which were then the only means of conveyance in 
Toronto. Arriving at home I found that an enterprising fellow collegian, 
a private in the Trinity company, who boarded with a clergyman in the 
