<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=543483" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A Scottish Soldier</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">There was a young Scottish soldier <br>of the Highlanders Brigade <br>his Black Watch Regiment<br>marched through the night’s thunderstorm<br>to battle the Boers at Magersfontein </div><div style="margin:10px 0">They were waiting in the trenches<br>when the Black Watch deploy into<br>open order march for the dawn assault</div><div style="margin:10px 0">At four hundred yards the Boers open fire<br>and caught the column changing formation<br>killing Scottish soldiers left right and center</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The young Scottish soldier badly wounded<br>scared to lift his body and head<br>lying on the veld tormented<br>by ants thirst and scorching sun<br>blisters on his legs from kilt<br>to stockings... </div><div style="margin:10px 0">In mid-afternoon the Highlanders broke<br>and retreat under heavy fire</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The young soldier then died<br>under the African sun...<br>one of 279 killed and wounded</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A black day for the British Empire<br>and the young Scottish soldier...<br>from the Black Watch Regiment! </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Copyright©JohanJ</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Johan+Jacobs">Johan Jacobs</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=543483" data-title="A Scottish Soldier de Johan Jacobs" data-description="There was a young Scottish soldier of the Highlanders Brigade his Black Watch Regiment marched through the night’s thunderstorm to battle the Boers at Magersfontein They were waiting in the trenches when the Black Watch deploy into open orde..."></div> </div> </div>

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