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     Crack Scots Regient Now in Europe Learned. ivlountain Tacticiibnlmlsugski 
     
    
   
   
    
     By Wm. Brown-Forbes 
     
     Scottish officers and men of 
     
     the Lovot Scouts, a. mountaineer- 
     
     ing battalion now active m the 
     
     battle of Europe, learned 
     
     " and mountain tactics from 
     
     dians high in the Canadian 
     
     Rockies at Jasper Park 
     
     Led by prominent mountain- 
     
     eers, the Scouts made the first 
     
     winter ascents of some of the 
     
     highest peaks in the Rockies, 
     
     took training in rock and ice 
     
     climbing, skiing, hill tactics and 
     
     small arms fire. On the" £11196» _ 
     
     four or five day "schemes _wh_1¢h . 
     
     the men performed, climbing 
     
     iiig dangerous ter- 
     
     snowholes for the 
     
     comnfucting manoeuvres, 
     
     they each carried rucksacks 
     
     stuffed with sleeping h8g5» A" 
     
     tic rations for three days, ‘Vhite 
     
     camouflage plltfltp "amlwnsi 
     
     rifle, ammunition, ice axe and a 
     
     prlmus stove-some o5 pounds 
     
     to lug up a few thousand feet. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Ki: night they dug their igiooe 
     
     about 18 inches under the snow s 
     
     surface, with bunks, tables and 
     
     seats carved out of the \va.lls of 
     
     the subterranean shelters. A ski 
     
     pole, jabbed handle down through 
     
     the roof, provided ventilation and 
     
     let the fumes of the stove escape 
     
     as dinner \VllSl§O0l{6d.bTllB under- 
     
    

    
     , _ . snow hut wou soon c as warm 
     
     Sergeant Eino Luhta, FHnmsh-Canadlai} graduate °i as any home. ‘ 
     
     the Yoho Valley army schoolfor mountaineers, was an The 10v“ scouts were m“, to 
     
     instructor in mountain tactics to the Lovat Scouts. hold the Faroe Islands at the be- 
     
     ginning of the war and for two 
     
     , _,_.,, _ __ summers were on guard dut at 
     
     Iialmoral Castle, the Kings cot- 
     
     tish residence, training in the hill 
     
     country of the region, climbing 
     
     the peaks of the Gram ians. 
     
    

    
     It was in the Canad n Rodries 
     
     where dozens of peaks pile up 
     
     past the 10,000-foot mark that 
     
     the tough mountaineering began. 
     
     In temperatures often col er than 
     
     20-below zero, with winds almost 
     
     whisking" them off rock faces, 
     
     sn_ow_ whirling about them in 
     
     blinding fogs, and slippery, 
     
     treacherous ice underfoot, the 
     
     Lovat Scouts squadrons climbed 
     
     many of the toughest peaks in the 
     
    
   
   
    
     Canadian mountaineers 
     
     s tors from other countries 
     
     had scaled these peaks before but 
     
     seldom in the same weather, and 
     
     rarely had such large numbers of 
     
     {hen climbed) tlgengdattge sags v v .v -   . . 
     
     ime, . -. . . . . . - - ~ , . y 
     
     whicheiflé QFGfQQQ ‘Klan 3001M Up the long tan of the Atha-baska. Glacier high in the Canadian Rockies men, trained by Canadians, carried {i5 pounds of equipment, kept 
     
     hardly carry downtown without at Jasper Park go these members of the Lovat Scouts, crack Scots going in the world s most ruggedterrain for ten hours a do . On long 
     
     hel regiment which played n. vital part in the invasion of Europe. The ascents, which sometimes took five days, the men slept in the snow" 
     
    
   
   
    
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     It was a tough, ellin job: 
     
     three months of fregiiig cofii and 
     
     lmck-breuldn work, but it made 
     
     them the crac regiment they are, 
     
     experts in sharpshooting, moun- 
     
     tain climbinq, observing, able to 
     
     ski and do the innumerable tasks 
     
     that such a group of shock troops 
     
     might be called on to perform. 
     
    

    
     The Lovat Scouts regiment was 
     
     raised in 1899 by Simon Fraser 
     
     15th Lord Lovat, a. Highland 
     
     landowner, to counteract the 
     
     Boers’ knowledge of outdoors and 
     
     their familiarity with the terrain 
     
     on which the South African war 
     
     was being fought. Stress was laid 
     
     on observing and sniping as the 
     
     Scouts’ main task and the repri- 
     
     ment ivas composed of stalkers, 
     
     gillie. and uamekeepers—and 
     
     even some poachers-from the 
     
     Scottish estates. _ 
     
    

    
     Canada made fast friends in 
     
     these Scotsman who trained here. 
     
     Many a Canadian overseas these 
     
     last five Wars will make friends 
     
     of these men in battle zones when 
     
     they hear in burring accents how 
     
     Athabaslcn looks as the sun 
     
     comes up and tints the snow and 
     
    

    
     the rock rust red, that the deer in 
     
    

    
     Jasper arc still gentle-eyed and 
     
    

    
     tame, that Edmonton is a busy 
     
    

    
     western metropolis, that the snow 
     
    

    
     - ..= = - is_kleenfl~fnd_ cgldhtgedsgln-glars p - _ y, 
     
     - 1 _ ~ air res e win . . . . _ _ . 
     
    

    
     w» naming was given the crack Scots iegimenl. sfalfltas f)“, skis cam, you down Members oi the‘ Lovat Scouts arrive at the Rockies can generate and pause for L/C Mackenzie, has been in the Lovat Scouts for S!!! 
     
     ‘ii-now? l“ the Rocklesat Jasper Park‘ ThGSQ the onp slopes of the mountains Columbia Icefield Chalet after a four- a cold drink at the canteen bar before years, is now fighting in Europe. A game-keeper 1n 
     
     1H1‘ used t0 bleak "D thfealefllflg avalallfihes- of lwllle- day hike through the toughest Weather wolfmg up a. steaming four-course meal. civilian life he is a crack shot, works as a snipe!‘- 
     
    
   
   
    
     Igloos, snow uts natural ice caves [h ' i i k.’ th Alihk I Vito!‘ l l ' min ’ ma”; \  
     
     were used as dwellings by the Lovats. GiYIICgl-leli‘? ‘that? 32:51:11 Secots gillieg Similaiwetiyrthen lgghntfii-liqigisghit floailzsmfllcimbs 65 r i%edti9sliniiigt isnectilti? Igekivgguxivtzi; all?)  lmonMetlhemict grid stool: 
     
    
   
   
    
     111' B" i"! w“? fmllfled by snow cornice and gamekeepei-s "hole up" for the night. degree hills, can travel on ice at 36 miles an hour. sent ammunition, upplies, by plane cover until the, UNIV? 13"" d‘ 
     
    
   
   
    
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