2g^ REMINISCENCES OF 



CHAPTER XIV. 



FAREWELL DINNER AT CUPAR. 



I Nji November, 1895, the following account appeared 

 in the Fife Herald and Journal of a banquet and 

 presentation to Colonel Anstruther Thomson on his 

 retiring from the command of the regiment after 

 thirty-five years' service :— 



" Colonel Gilmour occupied the chair. Among 

 others present were Captain the Earl of Rosslyn, 

 Sir Arthur Halkett, Lieutenant Sir Walter Corbet, 

 Hon. George Waldegrave Leslie, Lieutenant Harry 

 Anstruther, M.P., Captain Munro- Ferguson, M.P. 

 The Rev. J. Burt, chaplain. Captain and Adjutant 

 Waring, and Captain Crabbie, the new Adjutant. 

 Major Middleton, Lieutenant George Prentice and 

 Colonel Burn acted as croupiers. Lieutenant Harry 

 Erskine, Surgeon-Captain Stuart Palm, Lieutenant 

 Mitchel and ex-Lieutenant Gillespie were also pre- 

 sent. Apologies were intimated from Mr. Cathcart 

 of Pitcairlie, Mr. Bethune of Blebo, Mr. Robert 

 Prentice, Sergeant-major Martin, Quartermaster 

 Thomas Swan, and Mr. Wardrop (late trumpeter). 



" Mr. Haig, whose name was received with 

 marked cordiality, wrote : ' Though unable to be 

 present this evening from unavoidable causes, I beg 



