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The Scottish Volunteers: Bugler W. Balmer, aged 80, Border Rifles, late the 92nd Highlanders, 1881. Creator: Unknown.
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The Scottish Volunteers: Bugler W. Balmer, aged 80, Border Rifles, late the 92nd Highlanders, 1881. 'Bugler William Balmer, of the Border Rifles, was born at Hawick, in the year 1800, enlisted in the 92nd Highlanders in 1817, and after twenty-one years' service as bugler and drummer in that regiment - of which twelve were spent in the West Indies - was discharged in 1838 with a pension of one shilling a day. Returning to his native town, he resumed the occupation of a weaver; and on the formation of the 4th Roxburgh Corps in 1860 he joined it, and continued to serve as a bugler for twenty years. When the regiment was assembled, old Balmer, as the best bugler in it, was invariably selected to act as orderly bugler, and it was only within the last two or three years that he began to find it difficult to keep up in marching - sometimes on the steep sides of the Border hills. He was placed on the retired list in 1880, but is still hale and hearty'. From "Illustrated London News", 1881.
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HRM25A33_242
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7,7Mo (439,5Ko) / 9,7cm x 19,9cm / 1147 x 2354 (300dpi)