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Show The Cache American. Logan, Cache County. Utah Iaffe Two English Regiment's Colors in a U. 5. Army Post U. S. War Prisoners Seek Chapel Recalls Day When Briton and American 'Escape' in Camp Doings Fought Side by Side to Win Historic Victory Maybe That Too No, Elmer. I cant marry you. The man whom I'm going to marry must bo upright an4 gquare." and weakened line of the Royal Yanks Like Plays and Develop Liking for Dy ELMO SCOTT WATSON 1 Americana which began to waver Union. by Wvrtrrn Newspaper 1 Soccer Football, but Letters From under the fqrce of the savage onset a press moment For in the dispatches Issue hung RECENT Italian front reHome Greatest Source of Cheer. the balance with disaster just a corded the fact that the halrsbreadth away. Then the Royal Americana atifened their resistKing's rtoyal Rifle corps was ance just long enough. Out of the Dy BAUKIIAGE one of the units of the Seventh ravine came charging the HighlandNrwt Analyst and Commentator. Armored Division, which had ers who poured a volley at point-blan- k served so brilliantly under when possible, usually range into the flank of the red WNO Service, Union Treat Building, source General Montgomery in his mob. fabricated out of sheets snd men's Washington, D. C. The Finishing Tooth. victory over Rommel in the It ia not often that we get direct clothing. North African campaign and The newspaper (a typewritten Although greatly surprised, the In- communication from Americana in diana faced about and returned the Germany, and so I am not ashamed sheet) says that scenery, furniture which was now a part of Genfire. But before they could reload, to say that when I perused a comand stage properties have been coneral Alexander's British the Highlanders were bearing down munication from that source, I did structed from wooden Red Cross Eighth army. To most Amerboxes and burlap, covered with upon them with their bayonetted not at first recognize what the freican readers this reference to men the red realized and that guns POW magazine abbreviation paper and painted with used quently the Royal Rifles had no spewere trapped. Then Bouquet atood for. cold water paint they cial significance, although In another item, the paper comput the finishing touch upon his darfew Americana Comparatively they might well have been os ing maneuver. know the meaning of those three ments that the handy man ia the interested in its progress in Once more taking a desperate letteri; perhaps none know what hero of the camp. Of course, there are sports, but the campaign against Kessel-ring- s chance, he again broke hia line and they mean to the POW himself. threw two companies out of the cirlimited ground apace makes baseGermans as in the forPOW u prisoner of war. Accordt cle on the other flank of the enemy. ing to the latest tunes of any regiment in Gen. figures I have from ball Impossible in this particular The flying Indians, retreating be- the war department there are now camp since a homer over the fence Mark Clarks American Fifth Colors of the 60th Royal Ameri- fore the grim-faceIs irretrievable. The boys have Highlanders, ran army. cana in the Chapel of Saint Cornelius squarely into the Royal Americans 41,234 American soldiers, sailors, learned to like soccer, learned from Rifle held seamen For the fact if that the Royal by the Centurion, Governor laland, and withered away before the vol- marines, merchant their English comrades, as a form the enemy! corpi la inUmatcly associated with New Fork. A which few their line. of what they call masa murder." ley swept is The of Cross the officials Red the It this of the history country. lineal descendant of a regiment force of little more than 500 men, moments later the savages had fled, know exactly what the conditions Softball ia a favorite sport and with which helped gain one of the most composed of a detachment of his leaving Bouquet and his men in full are under which those prisoners the arrival of fencing foils, fencing. There are some classes, but they move and live and have their being brilliant victories ever won on the own regiment, the 60th Royal Amer- possession of the field. It had been a dearly bought vic- in Allied prison camps in Germany are not dealt with in detaiL North American continent, thereby icans, and portions of two regiments, of his men had been or In the more than 40 hospitals Another nostalgic diversion was giving to American colonial history the 42nd Highlanders (the famous tory. Fifty one of its greatest military heroes. "Black Watch") and the 77th (Mont- killed, 60 wounded and five were for Allied wounded in the Reich or described although not admitted as Known originally as the 62nd Loyal gomery's) Highlanders, which had missing. 0 total casualty list of 115, occupied countries. They have regusuch, since no note of sentimentality enters the sheet It was a baby conAmerican Provincials, the regiment recently been invalided home from nearly a fourth of his entire force. lar reports from the International But Bouquet had saved his army. Red Cross who visit test the entrants photographs supwas later christened the 60th Royal the West Indies. representatives Fort Pitt and Pennsylvania. It took the camp regularly. The Red Crosa plied, presumably, by wives from Americans and this was the name With this Bouquet him army four long days to march the ays in effect: "So far as we know, home. A Miss CoL it bore when its leader, Henry reached Fort Bedford, the first leg Stalag Luft III was 25 miles to Fort Pitt. remairfing 25. the Germans have treated Ameri- later to be selected from the picon Bouquet, snatched victory from of his July journey, what seemed certain defeat at the There a force of experienced rangers But the Indians had had enough. can prisoners in accordance with tures of wives and sweethearts. They had suffered a loss of more the Geneva agreement Battle of Bushy Run, marched on oined him and they proved invaluaThe schedule for a typical day to raise the siege of Fort Pitt and ble as an advance guard against am- than 60 killed and many more woundThat is all it says. runs like this: to But even if the Germans live up gave the deathblow to Pontiac's bush. By August 5 he was nearing ed. There was little opposition bis advance when and he reached to both the spirit and the letter of POWs Day Leisurely his goal. About noon of that day, Conspiracy. A New Era In 'Military Science. after a forced march of 17 miles that outpost and raised the siege, it the Geneva agreement the lot of But Monotonous sounded the death knell to the high the prisoner of war i not to be One thing which distinguishes the through the hot forests, he reached a The day starts at 10 a. m. with of the great Pontiac. Within envied. hopes 25 miles from called Hill, Recently, I studied some of roll-caEdge Battle of Bushy Run fronv all other place (following a breakfast of a of Ottawa's the confederation year the newspapers issued by men in coffee, bread and were rifle engagements in our history is that Fort Pitt Suddenly there jam). Then calishad and the last tibes collapsed the prison camps. Some have been thenics, showers for the few desighere Colonel Bouquet established an shots ahead and screaming Others nated that The Indians had attacked threat to English occupation of North released for publication. American tradition of tactical reday (they go in lots of was America ended. have not Not that those withheld 24), classes, bis advance guard. library, cooking schedsiliency and readiness to adapt methThe next year Bouquet scored an revealed The two light infantry companies any dark secrets of suffer- ules (the men take turns at the ods to new requirements which has exin success an briliant equally culminated in the military Imitat- of the Black Watch went to their pedition into the heart of the Indian ing. Quite the contrary. They simply culinary arts). Mail (if there is any) prove what Kipling said about men noon. Last roll-ca- ll ions of World War II, such as the support and scattered the Indians. country beyond- the Ohio. With two who live in barracks not growing is distributed at comes four new techniques of Jungle lighting But they came swarming back imat m., then a few p. a short time Pennsylvania battalions he cut a up to be plaster saints, and some of turns around the of the against the Japs and of air combat mediately and within perimeter Musof the into road wilderness the the humor might be a little, shall camp, supper, bridge and was surrounded and poker (for against the German LuftwafTe. In his little army There he summoned kingum valley. we say, unsaintly.' a day when batUea were fought fighting for their lives behind a has- the Indians to a council to demand, cigarettes). Then some good talk, tily constructed defense on top Of the not The reason for this Is expressed much foolish dreaming before midstrictly according to rule, Bouquet, hill. merely ask, that they cease their In the word By nightfall Bouquet's losses, a superb tactician, dared to disreescape. There are two night sends the Kriegie to bed with raids upon the English settlements. kinds killed and more were in wounded, of escape which a prisoner the hope ever that the new day to improvise gard the rules and he demanded and secured Moreover, y on the battlefield, thereby marking than 60 officers and men. brings peace. the release of more than 300 white thinks about One is a safe A Desperate Situation. barbed wire the and Of course, in this little typewritthrough the beginning of a new era in milipast captives who were restored to their the machine ten journal which has had to pass guns and quick-triggIt was probably as desperate a families. tary science. sentinels. If he is wise, he doesnt the German censor there is only Bouquet was a soldier of fortune, situation as any military commandBouquets brilliant campaigning spend too much time on such cogi- here and there a hint of certain born in Switzerland in 1719. In er had ever faced. In the dark for- brought him the thanks of the King 1754, at' the outbreak of the war beest around him swarmed a force of and the colonial assemblies of Vir- tation. The official advice to POWs inner feelings toward the hosts; one note on the showing of a Gertween France and Great Britain in savages three or four times the size ginia and Pennsylvania. He was Is dont try It The other kind of escape is defined man film speaks of a none too America, he became lieutenant colo- of his. Flushed with their recent promoted to brigadier-genera- l but nel of the newly organized 62nd Loy- successes in capturing the British he did not live long to enjoy his by Webster as, mental distraction spellbound audience. It is difficult to get an intimate al American Provincials, which was posts and remembering how they honors. He died of the yellow fever or relief from the bondage of reality view of a prisoner's life from these to become the 60th Royal Americans had overwhelmed Braddock, who had at Fort St. George (Pensacola, Fla.X or routine; as, literature of esbrief notes or, indeed, from the letcape. three years later and eventually the more than three times as many sol- in 1766. The somewhat highly seasoned ters the prisoners write home. But King's Royal Rifle corps. He came diers as did Bouquet, the Indians The great commander of the 60th to America in 1756, and served under were confident of another great vic- Royal Americans might die, but the humor of some of the jokes and car-Vo- those persons who have read all the in the prisoners' papers are, confidential reports and also many General Forbes in the capture of tory. Outside the little circle of regiment lived on. After Bouquet's of letters passed on to them by relaFort Duquesne, the French post at piled-usupplies, which formed the death, British troops in the South technically speaking, literature this and the tions tell me two things: one, that, escape, the Forks of the Ohio which was re- walls of his fort, lay the bodies of were commanded by Augustine description t, built and named Fort Pitt. Five 25 soldiers, killed in the fighting that another Swiss adventurer who of things they do to provide escape generally speaking, American prisoners in German camps are not years later, in May, 1763, the con- afternoon. Inside there was suffer- had become lieutenant colonel in from the monotony of prison life. badly treated and are not in wpnt; spiracy of Pontiac, the great Otta- ing from undressed wounds and heat command of the 60th in 1761. Dur- Yank Ingenuity Shows wa chieftain, broke like a storm and thirst. For there was little wasecond, the first months' are the the Revolution was the regiment ing One after an hardest. Most prisoners build up along the frontier. ter to be had except for a few pre- in the expedition led by Prevost In Stage Productions As always, the drama provides some kind of "escape mechanism cious mouthfuls, brought in the hats which marched north to the conof some of the rangers who risked quest of Georgia and the first bat- one of the easiest and most effec-Vv- e and manage to keep up their spirmental distractions and I am its and morale by adapting themtheir lives to creep down to a spring talion took part in the successful defense of Savannah in 1779, against fold that the time, effort and in- selves to their environment nearby to get it. Naturally, the question is freThe hot dawn of August 6, 1763, a combined French and American genuity that is put into the learning, producing, staging and costuming of quently asked: "What are we doing brought n renewal of the Indian at- force. for our prisoners in Germany? plays by these men is remarkable. tack. Slowly but surely tbeip plungIn the Revolution. The thing they waqt most is proThe Issued Times, Kriegie by fire of thfe down cut number the of Parts ing regiment fought with defenders on the hill. At last. Bou- Lord Rawdon at Hobkirks'Hill and the American airmen in Stalag Luft vided for most of them letters from quet, seeing that destruction of his were with Lord Cornwallis, at the III, in Sagan, Germany, which I home. The next are the food packages which are paid for by the command was inevitable if this un- Battle of Guildford Court House. It nave before me as I write, is perworkequal kind of fighting continued, re- was also with that luckless com- haps not typical because it was an army, packed by volunteer ers the and Red Cross edition home for the by shipped especially down laid his solved to attempt one risky maneuarms he when mander ver and wager everything on one and surrendered to Washington at folks. But it has a story on page from their four shipping centers, two in New York, one in Philadeldesperate chance. If he could get Yorktown in 1781. But whatever en- one headed theater which begins which with me statement the started phia and one in St. Louis. Most of of out Revoluout the enemy the into the open long mities, growing on this topic, It says, The the packages, assembled like motor enough to give his Highlanders an tion, there may have been between off on a moving line, are packed opportunity for a bayonet charge, Briton and American they have long Kriegie (local nickname for war cars prisoner) is assured of 'escape' in by loving hands that group which one such decisive stroke might end since been forgotten. Then it explains that bears the scars of war as deeply the affair. Today therfe hangs in the Chapel the theater." to order in accommodate the whole as the combatants themselves, and his on the to men Centurion of Saint Cornelius Explaining clearly what he wanted them to do, so there Governors island. New York, the camp in an auditorium which seats described prosaically in army lanwould be no mistake and no confucolors of the 60th Royal Americans only 20 per cent of the members, guage as the next of kin." These packages go, one for each when the crisis came. Bouquet (pictured above). They were pre- five performances of each play are sion other the chain of British posts fell, ordered the two companies of High- sented to the chapel in 1821 by Field given. And they include real drama. prisoner, every week. The article records as recent proThe prisoners also can receive either from treacherous attack or landers to withdraw suddenly from Marshal Lord Grenfell on behalf ol never-di- e personal packages every 60 days. from assault by overwhelming forces the line, retreat rapidly across the the officers and men of the Kings ductions that sure-firOur They get books and other prescribed of Indians. Only Detroit and Fort hill until they reached a little ra- Royal Rifle corps, lineal descendant farce, "Charlies Aunt; the American articles. Town, popular play, A1 60th of ran which one if Americans. and vine held out the side the of the latter post Pitt Royal along The Red Cross has eight ships ol fell, Pontiac might well make good eminence. They were then to ad- that time they were the symbol of a nostalgic and easy Jo stage behis threat to drive the English in- vance down this ravine and be ready tradition shared by the British army cause it requires no scenery; its own which, up until recently, Tobacco Road," a popular, earthy have been landing regularly at Marto the sea. to attack from it when necessary. and the American army the tradiIn this crisis the Swiss adventurer Meanwhile the Royal Americans tion of Britons and Americans fight- piece with a run longer than the re- seille, where packages have been The Man shipped in sealed cars to Switzerwere to extend their line across the ing and dying side by side while treat from Stalingrad; was called upon to save the day To Who Came land. These goods went through unwhose Dinner, foe in apthe forests fighting a savage by marching to the relief of Fort hill to replace the Highlanders. As the kilted Scotsmen withdrew, of western Pennsylvania one hot Au- peal perhaps lies in the fact that molested. Lately some of the shipPitt. It is no overstatement to call couldnt get away, ments have been made to Lisbon the . man hia expedition a forlorn hope, the Indians, seeing this maneuver gust day back in 1763. Today those on smaller shuttle for when he arrived at Carlisle late and believing it to be the beginning colors are a symbol of the same tra- either; and Flieger Frolics," an and in June, he found there neither ade- of a retreat, came screeching out dition the tradition of Britons and original musical comedy. (Flieger is vessels. The disruption of traffic in Germany has recently interfered quate stores nor transport which he from their hiding places like a pack Americans fighting and dying side flyer in German.) it is ex- with the system. Other routes are Female costumes, n of famished wolves. Charging out by side in Tunisia, in Italy and in had ordered only plained, are hired through German tpeing planned. refugees from the west. He had a into the open they struck the thin France. 7 You want a piano, not a hus- 1 1 , band. Ia Old England country doctor on hit rounds mar rouly escaped running over m Homo Cuard writhing in apparent agony in Iho middle of the rood. Stopping hit car he got out, bent over the men, and asked, hat's the matter f Wheres the pain?" There isn't any pain," the man re plied, This road is supposed to bo o deep .-river, and I can only tuim on my 'A back- Ia the Raee Three young men were boasting of their height. Look at me, 6aid Tom. Im. alx feet two and a half ia my stockinged feet. 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Had he survived until the Revolution, Bouquet would is the reasonable surmise against his erstwhile and friends in the Colfellow-officeonies have pitted his battalions with the ruthless efficiency of the proE. Douglas fessional soldier. Branch in a talk before WESTERNERS in Chicago, July, 1944. It seems a heartless thing to say. rs but the bullet that struck down Wolfe enough they on the Plains of Abraham, and the been available for service in 1775. We do not find such another Infever that carried Bouquet away at Pensacoa, did good service to the dian fighter as this gallant Swiss ir the colonial records, and it is notecountry destined to become the United States of America: for they were worthy that the same sort of troops such accomplished soldiers, men of as were found entirely inadequate such talent and genius, that had they to the situation when led by Brad-dockbeen in command of the British proved themselves heroes in forces in the War of the Revolution, deed when under the command of s Cyrus that struggle might have been short- greater and abler man. er and its results possibly vastly Townsend Brady in Border Fights different. They were both young and Fighters. , BRIEFS . 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