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     and file. The conduct of the men while under arms awaiting orders was 
     
     very creditable, not one defaulter being reported during the thirteen days. 
     
    
   
   
    
     (Signed) D. STEWART, Captain. 
     
     Commanding No. 1 Service Co." 
     
    
   
   
    
     We have been unable to get any report as regards No. 2 
     
     Service Company. but from our own knowledge they were of 
     
     excellent physique and very efficient at that time. It is a. 
     
     matter of regret that the Militia Department have not as yet 
     
     recognized in some substantial manner the sacrifices that were 
     
     made at that time by the officers and men composing the P. E. 
     
     I. contingent for actual service. It is worthy of note that the 
     
     old veteran, Sergeant Major John Allen. of this Battalion, 
     
     volunteered his services to go in the rank of No. 3 Company in 
     
     place of his son, who was a member of that Company at the 
     
     time but appeared to be too young for service. 
     
    
   
   
    
     During the period of this suspense however, a formidable 
     
     array of troops under General Middelton and other valiant 
     
     leaders, encountered the insurgents in several engagements, in 
     
     each of which victory crowned their endeavors, till at length 
     
     on the 16th May, Riel was taken prisoner in his efforts to 
     
     escape from the field of battle, and was subsequently executed. 
     
     Thus after a short time the rebellion terminated, when peace 
     
     and happiness were restored. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Returning to the subject of artillery competition. we find in 
     
     1885 the Island brigade to the front. During this year the 
     
     Shifting Ordnance Competition, open to the Dominion, was 
     
     held at local headquarters. No. I Company secured first 
     
     prize; and No. 2 second prize. A similar competition took 
     
     place in 1886, in which No. 2 Company again secured second 
     
     prize, also first prize in the general efficiency. Nor was this 
     
     all: in 1888, His Excellency the Governor General presented 
     
     a valuable silver prize to the Dominion Artillery, which was 
     
     contested for—heart and soul—and finally captured by No. 2 
     
     Company of Charlottetown, under the command of Captain 
     
     John A. Longworth, with F. W. L. Moore, and Thomas Dover, 
     
     as subaltern officers. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Capt. H. M. Davison now took command of No. I Company,