Apparently this ghost has been seen haunting the halls of the Goulbourn Museum and appearing at the gatherings of the Goulbourn Township Historical Society from time to time, insisting that red is indeed a good colour for a soldier’s uniform, not because it hides the blood so well but because a line of British soldiers all dressed in their bright red uniforms would appear to the approaching enemy to be a much larger contingent than it really was.
Whether or not this is true about British uniforms, I might never know for sure but, on Saturday, June 10th, 2011, I think that I, and a few others, actually spoke to the real live ghost of one Charles Lennox, 4th Duke of Richmond and Governor General of the British North American Colonies. It turns out that rabies did him in, not some heroic event of battle, so his uniform was still spotless.
