CHAPTER IV 



A TRIP TO AUSTRALIA AND FOLLOWING 

 YEARS AT WANBOROUGH PLAIN 



IN 1898 the Wiltshire Yeomanry presented an 

 attraction. I say an attraction because in those 

 days no one ever thought about the possibility of a 

 war. We were very proud of our D Squadron with 

 Major Goddard as its leader. In November 1900, 

 the Wiltshire Yeomanry, as the premier regiment 

 of Yeomen in the country, were chosen to join a 

 contingent of soldiers representing every branch of 

 the British Army going to Australia, to take part 

 in the forthcoming great ceremony of federating the 

 Colonies. 



A memorable visit this, and to the unsophisticated 

 a chance of a lifetime. Life on board a troopship 

 for some five or six weeks was not altogether a life 

 of luxury, but seeing life and the great experience, 

 justified any discomfort, and so far as I can remember 

 no one ever regretted this long and trying trip, or 

 was he ever the worse for it. 



Major Goddard and Lieutenant Fuller were our 

 two officers. The Major, a man you would always 

 place in the world of diplomats — in his younger 

 days I rather think he was in the service of Her 



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