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assembled at Candia to do honour to the British flag’, and the morning was de¬ 
voted to reviewing troops, saluting and lunching, and the afternoon to Inter¬ 
national Sports and the airing of some very imperfect French. 
The foreign navies were all represented on shore as guests of the British 
troops. 
In the Garrison Tug-of-War on that day the Battery got 2nd prize, beating 
the Fusiliers and H.M.S. “Forte,” but succumbing in the final to a team from 
H.M.S. “ Trafalgar” whose tonnage and breadth of beam was immense. 
We were, however, more fortunate at the Garrison Sports held on the 10th 
September, beating two teams from H.M.S. “Empress of India” and one of 
the Fusiliers’ and winning Colonel Sir H. Chermside’s Tug-of-War prize. A 
gunner also defeated all comers at throwing the cricket ball. 
On the 30th September the Battery beat the Seaforths and the Fusiliers in a 
boat race instituted by the “Empress of India ” who kindly supplied boats for 
the crews. 
The Cricket season began on the 22nd May and lasted till the 23rd October, 
during which time the Battery C.C. played 30 matches, winning20and losing 10. 
Each unit had constructed a cricket pitch of its own, of puddled clay under mat¬ 
ting, in the ditch of the fortification. 
The following are the scores of a few of our victories—our defeats would not, 
I am sure, prove interesting to readers :— 
27th May 4 M.B. v. R.W.F. 
3rd June ,, v. “ Trafalgar 
4 M.B. 148 (Trumpeter Russell 44 , 
Lt. Fowler 42), E.W.F. 63 and 54 . 
.4 M.B. 106, “Trafalgar” 37. 
12th „ 
I9th „ 
3rd July 
15th „ 
22nd „ 
13th Aug. 
24th „ 
16th Sept. 
55 
55 
55 
55 
v.“ Trafalgar ’*& “Forte” 
v. E.W.F. 
v. “ Cambrian ” . 
v. “ Trafalgar ” . 
v. “ Cambrian ”. 
v. “Royal Oak”. 
v. “Scylla”. 
v. “ Empress of India ’’ 
C 4 M.B. 176 (Fowler 44, RusseE34), 
\ “ Trafalgar ” and “ Forte ” 38. 
(E.W.F. 107, 4 M.B. 150 for 6 
< wickets (Lt. Hood 39, Capt. Smeaton 
(38, not out.) 
..4 M.B. 98 (Hood42), ‘Cambrian* 73 . 
C 4 M.B. 139 (Hood 53, Smeaton 
( 32), “ Trafalgar ” 104. 
C 4 M.B. 150 (Fowler 52), ‘Cambrian* 
(41. 
f 4 M.B. 194 (Lt. Freeland 42), 
(“ Royal Oak ” 22. 
“Scylla” 56, 4 M.B. 117. 
( 4 M.B. 208 (Fowler 104 not out), 
( “ Empress of India ”39. 
Gunner Bailey bowled extremely well throughout the season. 
The head-quarters of the battery left Crete for Malta on the 22nd of November, 
in the “ Jelunga, but as the ship drew the line at carrying mules, an officer and 
48 men were left behind with them till a meaner class of transport could be found. 
This arrived a month later in the shape of the “Joseph Scicluna” and we were 
all together again at Pembroke Camp on Christmas Day. 
The detachment left behind in Crete on two occasions, furnished a mounted 
escort for Colonel Sir H. Chermside to a village called Arhanes, about 8 miles 
from Candia, in the Insurgents’ country, where he wished to inspect and arrange 
for the repairing of breaches in the stone aqueduct which carries the water supply 
to Candia. This aquedubt was engineered and built by the Venetians and is an 
admirable piece of work ; in one place it goe9 right through a hill for over a 
