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Show IBRITISH SOLDIER IN OGDEN ' : : BEING WIPED OUT IN BATTLE ' y,g...., .,, -'-rtiSyfl ' ' " ' ' -r Jl 1 Farrier Major J. Alborough, of the i First regiment, King's Dragon Guards, 1( -will be leaving Ogden it is expected, ' on Monday for Atlanta, Ga., whither he goes on the -work of the British mission which has been occupied here in Ogden for some months buying horses for the British army. During Sergeant Alborough's stay in Ogden, ho has become known to a wide circle cir-cle of friends who will remember him with great pleasure as a soldier and a , man worth while. t It is with pleasure, therefore, that the Standard publishes an interview! with Sergeant Alborough. who. "with characteristic English reticence, has ; not told a groat deal of his interesting ij life story to many people, but who fi nally consented to say a littlo regarding regard-ing his life in one of the most historic and glorious of the British cavalry regiments. The King's Dragoon Guards com-,j com-,j mencod its history in the year 1670, J and, from that time down to the liv- l ing present, has covered itself with t glory every time it has been called into action, and there has been no war in which the British have been ' concerned since that time, in which the-K. D. G. have not been present ' and returned with honor and glory. rpVi i.-;,l nrJMi n.liirOi lir TJriticti I soldier learns, and studies and reniein- bers the glorious deeds of his regi- t ment is well marked in all that Ser- ! gcant Alborough has to say. Ho is conscious that on the battle roll of the f K. D. G. aro the names of many stir- " ring battles which every student of jj European history knows well; famous J battles such as Blenheim, Waterloo, '( Sebastopol, and the South African J ' struggles. Famous names and famous deeds , and historic dates color the soldier's mind and minister to his pride and to his resolve, so that in this present war, the new comers into the famous regiment have found it their high prlv- ilege to follow in the way their glo rious predecessors have blazed for I them. r this because, to the uninitiated, his ! honors and decorations arc a real be- ii wilderment. He wears with worthy 1 pride the Victorian Order, which is I only preceded by the Victoria Cross; the Mons Star, long service and good conduct medal which Is given to the soldier who manages to impress the b authorities with his person and char- f acter during eighteen years of exem- , jiary conduct; South African medal ! with five clasps; and oyer twenty-one I years of consistently fine service in j India, South Africa, and France, which (i only goes to prove that a man's a man ji lor a' that, whether in the army or in j civil life, and that the assertion which states that army life means degenera-J, degenera-J, tion is ninety-nine per cent pure error. The sergeant went to France in October, Oc-tober, 1914, and returned in October, 1917, after seeing the war undergo many changes, both great and small. The early days of the struggle will ever bo remembered by the man in it as the time of the most terrible strug gles, of tho most painful discomforts, i and tho most colorful romance War T had not become, as it is now, a war jy do luxe. Trenches were little better ij than ditches Into which the rain poured and the water stood. There was then no flooring of the trench, nor any of the designs of the carpenter carpen-ter and builder which make some modern trenches resemble an improvised impro-vised and" not very uncomfortable home. Yet for all that, when Britain with France was facing a foe so well equipped that it sometimes seemed that she could not be withstood, those were the days when old soldiers and new recruits General French's contemptible con-temptible littlo army earned for themselves a fame that will never fade so long as men lake pride in what men do and suffer In the behalf of right. Cavalry Fights. At Neuve Chapelle, at the second battle of Ypres. and in the Somme offensive of-fensive this cavalry regiment fought, not as in ancient times on prancing horses, or fiery chargers, but in the trenches with tho infantry and was able to add still further laurels to tho glory of their regiment by the manner man-ner of their musketry fire which friend and foe learned to speak of in terms of amazement so great was its deadly accuracy. "A regular soldier as I have been for closo upon 22 years," says Sergeant Alborough, "does not care to speak either of tho horrors of warfare, nor j nf I lin nnViln cof-rlfinnc r f mnn All mr training has been in an opposite direction, di-rection, to see one's duty, to do it In" tho best, way and with the fullest heartiness, to care little for personal consequences. This is the spirit of the soldier. Yet, he would not be a man if he did not feel deeply the sorrow sor-row and the horror of it all;"' to know, as I knew that all one's chums have fallen, as mine did at Hooge Chateau, in June of 1915. To know that two-thirds two-thirds of the whole regiment had been clean wiped out, is to possess a knowledge knowl-edge too deep for words. Those days are gone. Greatest Battles. "The most tremendous of all the fighting in the history of the war commenced in March of this year, and I wish that it had been mv fortune to have fought alongside some of your American soldiers who enter the struggle strug-gle so richly educated by the experience exper-ience of troops who held the. lines for three years before your entrance. I am sure they will do vell. By all tho necessities of the case, and the manner man-ner of their training, they ought to do well. The news of America's fighting men this last three months justifies the best hopes and the finest pride of her people." "Tell the American women." said Alborough, "that women will have done more to win the final victory than many now see. In Britain they have worked, not In order to gain society so-ciety notice, nor for any other low motive. mo-tive. The vast majority of them have worked because their treasure is their men folk and their country's honor. America will do the same; work, and work, and work yet harder, and it is Impossible that so fine a cause shall end Jn our defeat," |