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Worcestershire.' Windsor' (composed by Princess

Augusta). East Lanes. 2nd Batt., 'Lancashire Lads' (for

Quickstep). ' Lancashire Lass ' (for dismissal). East Surrey. 2nd Batt., ' The Lass o' Gowrie.' Duke of Cornwall's L.I. ' One and All.' Duke of Wellington's West Riding.' Wellesley.' Royal Sussex. 1st Batt., an unnamed French air.

2nd Batt., ' Royal Sussex.'

Hampshire. 1st Batt., air named after the regi- ment. 2nd Batt., ' We'll gang nae mair to yon

Toun.'

S. Staffordshire. 'Come, Lasses and Lads.' Dorsetshire. Air named after the regiment. S. Lanes. 1st Batt., ' Come, Lasses and Lads. 2nd

Batt., ' God bless the Prince of Wales.' Black Watch, R.H. 'Hieland Laddie. Essex. Air named after the regiment. Sherwood Foresters. ' The Young May Moon.' Loyal North Lanes. 2nd Batt, ' The Lincolnshire

Poacher.'

Northamptonshire Air named after the regiment. Royal Berks. 1st Batt., ' Dashing White Serjeant.'

2nd Batt., 'Royal Sussex.' King's Shropshire. ' Old Towler.' King's Royal Rifles. ' Lutzow's W T ild Hunt ' (in

< all four battalions, adopted in 1907). Wiltshire. Air named after the regiment. Manchester. Ditto. N. Staffordshire. ' The Days when we went

Gipsying.'

York and Lancaster. Air named after the regi- ment. Highland Light Infantry. 1st Batt., ' W T histle o'er

the Lave o't.' 2nd Batt., ' Blue Bonnets/ Seaforth Highlanders. ' Blue Bonnets.', Cameron Highlanders. ' Cameron Men ' and

'Pibroch o' Donald Dhu.' Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders. 1st Batt.,

'Campbells are Com ing.' 2nd Batt., 'Hieland

Laddie.' Leinster Regiment.' Royal Canadian ' and ' Come

back to Erin.'

Army Service Corps.' Wait for the Waggon.' R.A.M.C. ' Her Bright Smile haunts Me Still.' Staff, generally.' The Duchess of Kent,' ' Scotland

the Brave.'

Staff, Guards. 'The Red Feathers.' Cavalry Gallop. ' Bonnie Dundee,' 'St. Patrick's

Day,' 'The Campbells are Coming,' 'The Irish

Washerwoman.' Infantry Advance in Review Order. 'Under the

Double Eagle.'

H. S. Mum, Surgeon-General (Retired).

The following observations on MB. LUCAS'S list may be of interest.

1. 5th Lancers (Royal Welsh). This is, of course, an error for " Royal Irish."

2. While at Chatham I never heard the Royal Marine Light Infantry march past to anything but ' A Life on the Ocean Wave.'

3. The statement is correct that ' The British Grenadiers ' is played by the three " Grenadier " regiments of the British Army, viz., the Royal Regiment of Artillery, the Corps of Royal Engineers, and the Grenadier Guards; but it should be stated that these

regiments have also marches peculiarly their own.

Thus in the Royal Artillery there is a slow march called ' The Troop,' which is played by the mounted branch when marching past y while the dismounted branch plays 'High- Land Laddie ' in quarter column. At any rate, the cadets of the Royal Military Aca- demy, Woolwich, when I was there, always " quarter-columned " to that tune, and they are the senior company of the R.A. It appears a curious tune to have, and perhaps some R.A. reader will explain the reason.

The Royal Engineers have an old regi- mental march called 'Wings,' adapted by Mr. Sawerthal, a former bandmaster, from an air by Claribel and a German song by Dolores. This march, however, was dropped thirty or forty years ago, and ' The British Grenadiers ' played ; but in October, 1902, Lord Kitchener, on his return from South Africa, got the old march restored, and it is now authorized as the " March Past," though it is usually concluded with ' The British Grenadiers.' In connexion with the pro- posal to introduce marching songs in the army, a movement is on foot to have suit- able words authorized for * Wings.'

As regards the Grenadier Guards, they have two marches, ' The Grenadiers' March * and the ' March in Scipio,' the latter a slow march. SAPPEB.

S. India.

The 5th Dragoon Guards are the Princess , Charlotte of Wales' s, and may have ' Ar Hyd y Nos ' for regimental march, not ' The Harp that once through Tara's Hall.'

Has a Welsh Lancer regiment ever been in the British service ? J. T. EDWABDS.

WILLIAM CBOWMEB : WATTS FAMILY OF SUSSEX (10 S. x. 149, 232). Walter Rye in his history of Cromer says that William Crowmer came from that town (p. 16). On p. 18 we find the town spelt " Crowmere " and " Crowemere " under the dates 1374 and 1382, He gives a Danish derivation to the name : does not the ancient spelling point to its meaning " Mere of the Crowes " ? Crowe is one of the oldest names in Norfolk. Blome- field says : " The Crowes were a family very ancient in Stratton. In 1199 and 1202 Robert, Walter, and Jeffrey Crowe, brothers, had good estates here." Stratton is not more than fifteen miles distant from Cromer. The name is met with all over the county, but it occurs very frequently in the nei^h- bourhood of Cromer.

Can the surnames Crowmer and Crowe be originally the same ? i.e., has Crowmer