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TUL HERALD Wednesday May 30 17 Page Lome Scots served Canada in many wars Continued from page 1 1 the rebellion took plan Col George ChUholm led local troops at Chlppwea the following year when MacKenzie boat cap tured and the rebellion was finally ended A regiment was formed In Peel from the old York in 1846 and Halloa a militia was organised and com by Col George Chlsholm In lasi The government authorized I he recruiting of Class A volunteers in 1656 to support the British military Five thousand Class volunteers were also recruited but they got no weapons uniforms or accoutrements Infantry companies were established in Georgetown Milton Stewarttown Nerval and Campbell as well is a rifle company in Both the Halton and Peel militiamen got Involves in repulsing the Fenians they crossed into Canada in 1B66 but Col Barbers father who had Joined the group In loci says the Georgetown group never left the station My father used to tell how he had his men all turned out at the Georgetown station ready to board the train when word came through that they needed Col Barber said But he got a medal anyway for his part in the Fenian Raids The Fenian Raids spurred the gover to act on legislation passed in which authorized the for of proper militia units so that training could be im proved The Peel Bat tallon was formed Sept lB6a while the Halton Battalion was formed four days later The regiment took part in review at the Canadian National Exhibition In 1B79 a Ian with a number of other regiments and so distinguished themselves in the eyes of the reviewing of fleer the Marquis of Lome was Canada a Governor General at that point that he asked how he could reward the regiment The commanding officer Systems lost ruction coordinator Mike Topping and consumer relations officer Jane demonstrate the electronic scan checkout system at Miracle Food Mart s new Georgetown store The supermarket official ly opens today Herald photo by Donna Hall Local shopping joins the computer age Georgetown food shoppers will move into the computer age with the opening today of the town first grocery store to use the electronic screening checkout system Shoppers will find that the cash register Ihey recognize hat undergone numerous changes at the Miracle Food Mart store beside the Memorial Arena There cash iers will draw Items through a laser beam which registers the numbers in eluded in the universal product code and automatically punches up the Information required on the receipt The system is not necessarily faster according to the chain s consumer relations officer Jane The improvement comes in the Tact that it cuts down on human error MARKED LABEL The code which is marked on the label of all packaged foods includes the size and manufacturer of the product but does not Include the price This Is stored in the memory bank of the computer and Is triggered by the product code The prices are recorded separately in the memory bank so that can be changed when the need arises Items such as meat which are packaged in the store have a code attached to activate computer but if it isn picked up properly it can be rung up manually Produce goes on the scale first then has to be rung up manually If the computer pick up the full code the light of loser beam and the sound from it will change sufficiently to alert cashier so that she can clear the item and run it through again The receipts will be highly detailed and include the number of the cashier Miracle Mart began using the electronic check out system In Bob Dudgeon will manage the store which has 150 full and part time employees and of opens today Ice rental increase meeting tomorrow A meeting tomorrow day night at which municipal officials will discuss town councils recent decision to increase ice rental rates with representatives of local sports groups will be open to public and press Roy Booth who chairs a special four member com mltlee or council which will meet Ihe sports representa Uvea had Initially suggested that the meeting might cover more ground if the press was not allowed to attend Spokes men for groups involved he speculated might be ted from speaking frankly if the meeting was to be record cd Coun Booth told The Herald last week however that the committee had decided to keep the meeting scheduled to take place at the Stewarttown Com m unity Hall open lo all inter ested parties LOCAL GROUPS Executive menbers of 12 local sports groups were invlt to attend the meeting by letter earlier this month The teller referred to the meeting as an In camera session to which no other members of the public would be admitted Invited to at lend are repre sentatives of Ihe Georgetown Intermediate Raiders and Ju clubs the Georgetown District Minor Ho ckey Association Georgetown Minor Hockey Support Group Georgetown Industrial Hock Georgetown NonContact Hockey Acton Junior Sabres Acton Industrial Hockey Wat rep hockey Acton Legion Minor Hockey Acton Figure Skating Club and Georgetown Figure Sky ling Club Most if not all groups share opposition to council two month old decision to boost ice rental rales the loun three arenas starting in September A joint presenla lion council earlier this month demonstrated the group solidarity but council declined to consider the mailer further at thai time lion director bray jested lhat a special commit ice of council should meet ihe sports representatives in a not her forum and make a recommendation council Joining Booth on Ihe committee arc councillors Harry Levy Pot Patterson and Wood Mayor Pete is also expected to tend tomorrow night AGRICULTURAL LIME SPREADER SERVICE CAMPBELLS LIME SERVICE THE MONEY YOU SAVE AT AT BAZ MOTORS LTD WILL BE YOUR OWN AT MOTORS WE CARE Col William Allan of Acton requested permission to use the Marquis name and per insignia for Ihe This was granted In 1881 along with Boars Head insignia and the use of the ordinary Campbell tartan and the regimen became the Battalion Lome Rifles all other Scottish regiments were Infantrymen and wore the kilts but ihe men were riflemen there was no precedent and they had to wear the trews rather lhan the kill When the Riel Rebellion Col Tyrwhllt led a detachment from the Col James Ballintino who distinguished himself during the Boer War look the first group from and Peel lo and then overseas for World War I The Rifles were re organized in and adopted rifle drill while the 36th Peel rtgui was officially changed lo the I and Dufferin Regiment In 1923 Lt Col Brok regretted the loss of the regiment a Scottish connection and managed to get it re established so that in 1931 it became the Lome Rifles Scottish This enabled the regiment to again wear the of Lome personal tartan but it took three years before ihe men could appear in it because the only souce of supply was the Marquis own weaver in Scotland Col Barber chuckled as he recalled the first night the men turned out in the tartan trews They were hot enough to survive in the Arctic in them he said In 193a the government decided Canada had too many infantry regiments and amalgamated the regiment with Ihe Peel and one The new name was Lome Scots Peel Duf and Halton Regiments and it had companies In Brampton Port Credit Georgetown and When World War broke out the Lome Scots were among the six militia units chosen from across Canada lo be part of the first division to go overseas Although Ibis was a mark of distinction to the regiment It caused con troversy because the regiment was not allowed fight as a unit It was suggested that the regiment commanding of fleer Col should have ignored the request and kept the unit in tact so they have been called overseas later to fight as a unit It is Col Barber a opinion however that the commanding officer did Ihe only thing he could since on officer is expected to obey his orders or he has no business being part of the military The Lome Scots were later given the job of being defense pi a loons a I army headquarters all over Brill an and on the continent Since members of ihese platoons were allowed to replace fighting men ScoU were involved In all European battlefields and earned many battle honours In 1M3 the Lome Scola were granted permission to wear kills but nothing was ever done about it until 1951 A Scots Medical Officer Major Colin Heggle won the George medal the second highest award given to a British or Canadian soldier work In aiding victims during a bombing raid in Liverpool in 1943 Col Barber who knew Ma Heggle said he was returning from a pub with couple of fellow officers when he passed a building struck by a bomb earlier In the evening Police had area blocked off since wall appeared ready to collapse Ma had the men him hold him by feet so he could work through a break in the wall to treat people trapped in the building When the wall did fall he was seriously injured He spent time in hospital in England and then convalesced In Canada That dldn t stop him from returning to war as a medical officer troop ship plying the North Atlantic as soon as he was well again During 19S2 to ISM the Lome Scota was the second largest If not the largest militia regiment In Canada Col Barber said The Lome Scots pipe banc was rewarded for its in 1959 with a trip the Festival in 19C0 and their drum major was given Ihe honour of leading the massed bands onto the field In 19TS the Duke was In Canada to present the Queen a Guineas the Queen Plate and the regiment com mandlng officer Col Frank was made his aide de camp He was able to ask the Duke again about becoming colonel Inchief and the request was approved In 1976 The Duke s visit a month ago was his first visit to the regiment Col Barber commanded the Lome Scots from March 1049 December 1954 BUST BALLOON SAVE ON SOFA WEEK S FURNITURE WAREHOUSE LIMITED 334 ST GEORGETOWN Mob fit