The story of "The London Scottish inthe Great War," by Lieut Col. J. H. Lindsay, stands out amid' many "kindred. volumes. Colour ind a personal touch are amed by the collaboration of many individuals in the work. An account of reconnoitring a position, for example, is relieved by a litle story. of the corporal who presented a pair of wirecutters at a couple of Germans, demanding their surrender—iwhich he got, and, later on, the D.C. M. There are lots of pithy: ps of the 56 officer criticised the trying to run_a battalion on public school lines. The battle of Gommecourt was fought toon after, an the criticism was withdrawn? From first to Inst some 3,000 noncommissioned officers and men were taken for commissions in. other units, This was a flattering reccoxnition of the fine material to be found in the ranks, but the Ist Batt, especially, often felt the of being "st one and the ame time a fighting unit-and an cers' training corps." Then, to read such a passage as this ina regimental ig always pleasing—"On July 6, battalions of the 60th Division moved to the line by battalions of the fnland)" Division, whom were {0 relieve, the Scottish Batt.) going to the sector held by the 1/7th (Deeside) Gordon Tastructional tours cays a little trying, alike for instructors and pupits.e... The Gordons, however, many of them only youths in their teens, were patient with the newcomers, and by the time they finally moved out July 12, leaving the Scottish in full possession, they had not only taught them a great deal about trench life, and the habits of the enemy, but by their contempt, for the Hun and their utter fearlessness of all danger, had left behind them an inspiration which many London Scots carried with through the entire war service." Col. Lindsay claims that by their wonderful stand at Mestines on Hallowe'en 1914 "the first, and in sense the greatest, of their battles, the London Scottish proved beyond all possible cavil the right of the Territorial Force to "take place in the armies of Britain."
ighting side by side with—sueh troops as the Ist Brigade (Ist Coldstreams, 1st Scots Guards, 1st Black Watch and: Ist Camersns), and never failing to\ do their duty, the lads in the "hodden—grey" proved beyond question the trustworthiness of "our old eitizea army. The London Scottish, it may bbe mentioned, was raised in 1859, but originally only one company. wore the kilt; it was not until 1872 that all the regiment adopted the
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