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diff --git a/20136.txt b/20136.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..a09768a --- /dev/null +++ b/20136.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6006 @@ +The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Seventeenth Highland Light Infantry +(Glasgow Chamber of Commerce Battalion), by Various + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: The Seventeenth Highland Light Infantry (Glasgow Chamber of Commerce Battalion) + Record of War Service, 1914-1918 + +Author: Various + +Editor: John W. Arthur and Ion S. Munro + +Release Date: December 19, 2006 [EBook #20136] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE SEVENTEENTH HIGHLAND *** + + + + +Produced by Robert Cicconetti, Jeannie Howse and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This +file was produced from images generously made available +by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries) + + + + + + + + + + * * * * * + + +-----------------------------------------------------------+ + | Transcriber's Note: | + | | + | Inconsistent hyphenation in the original document has | + | been preserved. | + | | + | Obvious typographical errors have been corrected in this | + | text. For a complete list, please see the end of this | + | document. | + | | + +-----------------------------------------------------------+ + + * * * * * + + + + + The + + Seventeenth Highland Light Infantry. + + +[Illustration] + + + + + 17th H.L.I. + + THE GIFT OF THE MEMBERS OF + THE GLASGOW CHAMBER OF COMMERCE. + + + + +[Illustration] + + + + + The Seventeenth + Highland Light Infantry + (Glasgow Chamber of Commerce Battalion). + + + + + Record of War Service, + 1914-1918. + + + + + GLASGOW: +DAVID J. CLARK, 23 ROYAL EXCHANGE SQUARE AND 92 UNION STREET. + 1920. + + + + +EDITORS' PREFACE. + + +In compiling and editing this history of the Chamber of Commerce +Battalion, the aim of the editors has been to present such a narrative +as will provide a detailed but not overburdened account of the +Battalion's movements and operations throughout the years of its +existence, and at the same time give a representative impression of +the various outstanding events which have built up the character and +the traditions of the unit. + +In accordance with the wishes of the History Committee, the narrative +dealing with Field service has been kept within the limits of the +Battalion's share in the campaign, and accordingly no attempt has been +made to give any picture of the relative positions of the various +other units operating with the 17th, or of the general strategic +import of the actions described. + +The chapters dealing with the beginnings and home training, and those +general items in Part III. are founded mainly upon matter supplied by +officers of the unit and members of _The Outpost_ staff. The Roll of +original members in Part IV. has been gathered together by Lieut. and +Quarter-Master Kelly. The material in the section dealing with the +service of the Battalion overseas has been gathered from the following +sources:-- + +For data--the Official War Diaries of the 17th Battalion H.L.I. +preserved in the "Records" Office, Hamilton; supplementary notes +supplied by Lieut.-Cols. Morton and Paul and Major Paterson, D.S.O., +M.C.; Brigade and Battalion Operation Orders; Battalion Operation +Reports. + +For impressions, opinions, and descriptions--numerous and exceedingly +helpful literary vignettes from members of _The Outpost_ staff and +others, and from interviews. + +The Editors desire to record their appreciation of material +contributed and help given by:--Lieut.-Col. Morton, Lieut.-Col. Paul, +Lieut.-Col. Inglis, Major Paterson, the Rev. A. Herbert Gray, C.F., +Capt. G.H.R. Laird, Capt. M. MacRobert, Capt. T.P. Locking, Mr. +Cameron of the Chamber of Commerce, Lieut. and Quarter-Master Kelly, +Mr. Meadows of Saltcoats (for allowing illustrations and excerpts to +be taken from the diary of his son, the late Lieut. B. Meadows), the +relatives of the late Lieut. D.W. Hourston (for a selection of +photographs from his collection), and the following gentlemen +identified with the publication of _The Outpost_:--Messrs. A.M. Cohen, +W.S. Corbett, Mark Drummond, W.M. Dixon, A.G. Deans, W. Glennie, A.G. +Houstoun, J.L. Hardie, C. MacCallum, J. M'Kechnie, N. M'Intyre, W.K. +M'Taggart, D. Murray, J.L.L. Niven, F.K. Pickles, H.F. Scott, D.M. +Thomson, R. Tilley. + + JOHN W. ARTHUR. + ION S. MUNRO. + +GLASGOW, _May, 1920._ + + + + +CONTENTS. + + +EDITORS' PREFACE. + +I.--FORMATION AND HOME TRAINING. PAGE + +THE NATION'S CALL TO ARMS, 13 + Declaration of War--Strain on the resources of the + Regular and Territorial Forces--Kitchener's Call to + Arms--Civic response--Glasgow Corporation + Battalions--Meeting of the Chamber of Commerce and + Resolution--Committee formed--The Technical College. + +A BATTALION IN BEING, 15 + Attestation and enrolment--"A" Company from Technical + College--"B" Company from Schools--"C" and "D" from the + City--C.O., Second in Command, Adjutant, Company + Commanders, and Staff appointed--Leaving the + City--Government acceptance--Farewell visit to City. + +ESPRIT DE CORPS, 19 + Traditions of the H.L.I.--the 71st and 74th + Foot--Uniform--pre-War Establishment--Regular and + Territorial Battalions--War Service Battalions + raised--the allocation of the 17th Battalion. + +HOME STATIONS AND TRAINING, 21 + Gailes--Troon--Prees Heath--Wensleydale--Totley--Codford + Camp--Overseas Orders--Message from the + King--Embarkation. + + +II.--ON ACTIVE SERVICE. + +ON TREK, 27 + Arrival at Havre--March to the forward area--Bouzincourt + and Millencourt--instructional tour of front line + trenches--condition of trenches--first casualties-- + Molliens. + +TRENCH ROUTINE, 30 + In the line--Xmas '15 and the New Year--the new + trench--"Standing to"--routine and patrols. + +THE RAID, 33 + The "Red" Division--in the line at Authuille--Colonel + Morton wounded on March 21st--A raid postponed--carried + out on 22nd--success of Lieut. Begg's + party--congratulatory messages and awards. + +A LULL BEFORE THE STORM, 37 + Preparations commenced for the Somme offensive--a + complimentary shoot with "P" Battery--Divisional, + Brigade and Battalion identification marks--happy days + at Rubempre. + +THE BATTLE OF THE SOMME, 39 + Spirit of the Battalion prior to the battle--zero and + "over the top"--Leipzig Trench carried--flanks + exposed--precarious position of the unit--great + casualties--protective bombing posts--consolidation-- + Battalion relieved--Victoria Cross gained by Sergeant + Turnbull--Roll Call. + +A DIARY ACCOUNT OF THE BATTLE, 42 + Extract from the personal diary of the late Lieut. B. + Meadows giving a wonderfully realistic picture of the + July 1st Battle. + +HULLUCH AND THEREABOUTS, 48 + Senlis--last parade under Col. Morton--Bombing raid + north of Ovillers--Move to Bethune--1st Army + Area--inspection by General Munro--depleted + ranks--trench warfare about Hulluch--Cambrin Sector. + +BEAUMONT-HAMEL, 51 + The attack--weather conditions--failure of artillery + support--forlorn hope--break-down of assault--gallantry + and sacrifice--casualties--Mailly-Maillet--Franqueville + and Rubempre--Xmas 1916 and New Year--football and high + spirits. + +THE NEW YEAR, 1917, 53 + Bad weather--Courcelles--trench labours--varied + moves--beginning of Spring Offensive--attack by the + French--the advance--Nesle--condition of + inhabitants--great digging work at Germaine. + +ON THE HEELS OF THE ENEMY, 55 + The taking of Savy--casualties--patrolling--capture of + Fayet--congratulatory messages--strenuous + days--Canizy--competitions with the French--work and + sport--Hangard--leaving the Fourth Army--Farewell + message from General Rawlinson. + +IN FLANDERS, 60 + En route to Steenbecque--R.T.O.--the 14th + Corps--reconnaissance of Messines Sector--heavy + marches--Coxyde and Kuhn--amenities of Nieuport area. + +OPERATIONS ON THE COAST, 62 + Enemy hurricane bombardment--enemy attempt + frustrated--attack abandoned--visit to H.L.I.-- + sports--visit of Dr. Kelman--patrol work by Corpl. + Wilson--listening post raided--departure for Adinkerke. + +THE YPRES SALIENT, 66 + Passchendaele--gallantry of attack--casualties-- Hilltop + Farm--move to Landethun and Yeuse--Serre Sector--close + of 1917. + +THE DISBANDMENT, 71 + Hogmanay--with the II. Corps--the blow--new army + establishment--Hospital Camp--disbandment--the passing + of the "17th." + + +III.--AN ODD MUSTER. + +THE SPIRIT OF THE BATTALION, 76 + The Padre's tribute. + +CO-OPERATION, 78 + The 17th and the Gunners. + +"THE OUTPOST," 81 + The Battalion Magazine. + +SPORT OF THE BATTALION, 83 + Football--running--boxing. + +THE R.S.M., 84 + Tribute by Lieut.-Col. D.S. Morton. + +A REMEMBRANCE, 84 + An echo. + +THE COMFORTS COMMITTEE, 85 + The Ladies' Committee and Office-bearers--their helpful + work. + +MEMORIAL SERVICE IN GLASGOW, 86 + The Somme--Rev. A. Herbert Gray's text. + +THE CLUB, 87 + The object--Battalion Benevolent Fund--Committee + formed--Hope of the future. + +"E" COMPANY, 89 + 17th H.L.I. Reserve--19th Battalion--drafts-- + activities--Lieut. Col. Anderson, V.C.--78th T.R.B. + + +IV.--HONOURS AND AWARDS. + +Battalion Honour, 91 + +The Victoria Cross, 91 + +Honours gained by Officers and others while serving + with the Battalion, 93 + +Honours gained by original Members of the Battalion + after being transferred to other units, 96 + +List of Officers who were granted Commissions in the + Battalion on its formation, 100 + +"Other Ranks" of the Battalion who were granted + Commissions in the Battalion, 101 + +Roll of Warrant Officers, N.C.O.s and men who joined + the Battalion prior to 22nd November, 1915, 102 + + + + +ILLUSTRATIONS. + + +FRONTISPIECE. _Facing Page_ + +THE LATE MR. MONTAGU M.W. BAIRD AND MR. JAMES W. MURRAY, +PRESIDENTS OF THE CHAMBER, 14 + +FAREWELL MEETING AT THE TECHNICAL COLLEGE, 17 + +EARLY DAYS--A REST BY THE WAY, 18 + +H.R.H. THE DUKE OF CONNAUGHT, COLONEL-IN-CHIEF OF THE +H.L.I., AND COLONEL J. STANLEY PATERSON, 19 + +LIEUT.-COLONEL DAVID S. MORTON, V.D., C.M.G., 20, 35 + +ON THE SEA FRONT AT TROON--LEAVING TROON, 20 + +MESS ORDERLIES (PREES HEATH CAMP)--"GUARD, TURN OUT" +(WENSLEY CAMP), 21 + +A PEACEFUL BIVOUAC (SALISBURY PLAIN)--RECRUITING MARCH +AT CODFORD, 22 + +OFFICERS OF THE BATTALION AT MAR LODGE, TROON, 1915, 24 + +VISIT OF THE DIRECTORS OF THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, TROON, +1915 25 + +THE BATTALION ON PARADE, 26 + +HAVRE--RUINS OF BETHUNE, 28 + +THE CATHEDRAL, ALBERT--BEFORE AND AFTER BOMBARDMENT, 34 + +MAP ILLUSTRATING OPERATIONS OF 1ST JULY, 1916, 40 + +VIEW FROM BOUZINCOURT LOOKING TOWARDS THE LINE, 44 + +COOKHOUSE AT BECOURT--OBSERVATION POST, HULLUCH +SECTOR--WAR'S DESTRUCTION, 50 + +LIEUT.-COLONEL W.J. PAUL, 51 + +LIEUT.-COLONEL J. INGLIS, C.M.G., D.S.O., 60 + +TYPES OF SUPPORT LINE DUG-OUTS AND FIRST AID POST, 68 + +MAJOR THE REV. A. HERBERT GRAY--CHURCH PARADE (PREES HEATH), 76 + +PHASES OF BATTALION TRAINING, 77 + +"THE OUTPOST" STAFF ON ACTIVE SERVICE--ORIGINAL EDITORIAL +STAFF, 81 + +THE LATE STEVEN D. REITH, D.C.M.--LCE.-CORPL. F.K. PICKLES, 82 + +MARGUS, THE MASCOT--ONE OF THE BATTALION RUGBY FOOTBALL +TEAMS, 83 + +LIEUT. AND Q.-M. (FORMERLY REGIMENTAL-SERGEANT-MAJOR) JAMES +KELLY, 84 + +MRS. DAVID S. MORTON, CONVENER OF THE COMFORTS COMMITTEE, 85 + +LIEUT.-COLONEL W. AULD, V.D., 90 + +THE LATE LIEUT.-COLONEL WILLIAM HERBERT ANDERSON, V.C., +AND SERGEANT J.Y. TURNBULL, V.C., 91 + + + + +"_They ask a better Britain as their monument._" + + + + +I.--FORMATION AND HOME TRAINING. + + +THE NATION'S CALL TO ARMS. + + +Great Britain declared war on Germany on August 4th, 1914, and almost +immediately the combatant strength of its Regular Army was on service +and the great bulk of that gallant force engaged in those fierce +actions against odds which marked the early fighting. + +The War Office was quickly alive to the fact that the Regular Army +could not cope in point of numbers with the Germanic hordes. On the +day following the declaration of war the Territorial Forces of Great +Britain were mobilized, and with a marvellous and inspiring unanimity +their members volunteered for Overseas Service. But even the addition +of these many thousands to our striking force was realised to provide +no more than a relief for the rapidly exhausting strength of the "old +contemptibles," and Lord Kitchener issued his great manifesto calling +the people to the Empire's help, and laid the foundations of a New +Army--Kitchener's Army--the finest and most disinterested body of +soldier patriots that ever stepped in a sound and worthy cause. At +once the patriotism of the country declared itself and the Nation +sprang to arms. The City of Glasgow proved itself second to none among +the cities and districts of the Kingdom in its answer to the call. The +Town Council recruited two fine battalions, the 1st Glasgow, which was +mainly drawn from the Tramway employees of the city; and the 2nd +Glasgow, which was recruited from former members of the Boys' Brigade. +Other institutions in the city were bestirring themselves in the +national cause, and at a meeting of the Chamber of Commerce Directors, +held on 3rd September, 1914, it was unanimously resolved, on the +motion of Bailie W.F. Russell, to form a Glasgow Chamber of Commerce +Battalion. Enthusiasm for the scheme was quickly evident, and no time +was lost in getting the matter put upon a practical basis. At the same +meeting of Directors the following gentlemen were appointed as the +Committee in charge:--Messrs. M.M.W. Baird, James W. Murray, F.C. +Gardiner, G.A. Mitchell, H. Moncrieff, W.F. Russell, A.A. Smith, with +Sir Archd. M'Innes Shaw as Convener, and Mr. John W. Arthur as +Vice-Convener, the former making Military matters his chief concern, +the latter caring for Clothing and Equipment. Mr. Montagu M.W. Baird, +the President, and Mr. James W. Murray, the Vice-President, did much +to foster the movement. + +The Chamber of Commerce sustained the loss of Mr. Baird, who died on +October 14, 1915. Mr. J.W. Murray succeeded him as President and +applied that deep interest in all the work and welfare of the +Battalion which marked his services throughout the history of the +unit. Mr. Thomas Cameron, the Secretary of the Chamber, also in +countless ways contributed to its success. + +At this stage the Council of the Royal Glasgow Technical College +approached the Chamber of Commerce Committee, and it was arranged that +students of the College would find special opportunities of forming a +detachment within the Battalion. This arrangement was found acceptable +in every way, and many students entered for the service of their +country under the colours of what was at that early stage known as +"The Chamber of Commerce Battalion, 3rd Glasgow." + + [Illustration: THE LATE MR. MONTAGU M.W. BAIRD, + President of the Chamber, 1914-1915.] + + [Illustration: MR. JAMES W. MURRAY, + President of the Chamber, 1916-1917-1918. + _To face page 14._] + + + + +A BATTALION IN BEING. + + +No time was lost in bridging the gap between "Resolution" and +"Action." By September 12th, 1914, the work of enrolling recruits had +begun, and Medical Examination and Attestation were commenced under +the supervision of Colonel J. Stanley Paterson, Officer in Charge, No. +2 District, Scottish Command. Colonel Paterson did much for the +Battalion in many directions, and in a recent letter says:--"I have +never lost, and never will lose, the deep interest I took in the 17th +H.L.I. from the moment of its initiation, and the full story of its +doings will give me the greatest pleasure to read." + +The Lesser Hall of the Merchants' House was for many days the +Headquarters of busy recruiting, and those associated with these +stirring times will long remember the enthusiasm with which the +enrolment was conducted. With the help of Dr. Beilby and Mr. Stockdale +of the Royal Technical College, "A" Company was speedily recruited, +and was composed mainly of the College Students. Colonel R.C. +Mackenzie, C.B., did much for "B" Company, enlisting in its ranks +former pupils of the City Schools, the High School, Glasgow Academy +and others. "C" and "D" Companies were composed principally of men +from the business houses and different trades in the city and +district. For a few weeks the men, living in their own homes, were +instructed and drilled in four of the Territorial Force Association +Halls. During the recruiting and the early weeks of the training, +Major Rounsfell Brown acted as Adjutant, and rendered excellent +service. + +Kit was issued to the four original Companies, "A," "B," "C," and "D," +on 19th and 20th September. + +It was at first expected that Colonel Fred. J. Smith, late of the 8th +Scottish Rifles, might be chosen as Officer in Command, but for +reasons of health he was unable to undertake the duty. The choice +eventually fell upon Lieut.-Colonel David S. Morton, V.D., who had +seen much service, and was well fitted to fill the post. His volunteer +experience included service in the 1st L.R.V., the Engineers, and +various Commissioned ranks in the 5th H.L.I., ending, on his retiral, +with the rank of Lieut.-Colonel. In 1900 he served with the 71st in +South Africa as Captain of the H.L.I. Service Company. He was +mentioned in despatches, and received the "South Africa" Medal with +three clasps. + +Major W.J. Paul was appointed second in Command. His service had been +with the Scottish Rifles (the 4th V.B.S.R.), in which unit he rose to +the rank of Major, second in Command. He retired in 1907 with the +Honorary rank of Major. + +The original Officers in Command of Companies were:-- + + "A" Major W.J. Paul. + "B" Major J.R. Young. + "C" Major W. Auld, V.D. + "D" Major E. Hutchison. + +The Regimental Staff included Captain D.R. Kilpatrick, R.A.M.C., as +Surgeon attached; Lieut. and Quarter-Master Slade; Regimental +Sergt.-Major Kelly; Regimental Quarter-Master Sergt. T. Keith; and +Orderly Room Quarter-Master-Sergt. J. Copland. + +Up to this point the drill and training were being well pushed on. It +will be remembered that the extraordinary demands made on khaki cloth, +by the sudden institution of a national army, made it practically +unobtainable in these early months. A navy blue serge cloth was +substituted for making tunics, trousers and greatcoats, and these made +a neat and serviceable uniform. This uniform was issued at Gailes and +was exchanged for khaki in the following summer at Troon. The +Battalion was now ready to set out for its war training station, and +on 23rd September assembled in the Examination Hall of the Royal +Technical College, and had a good send-off by the Directors and +Members of the Chamber of Commerce, Colonel Stanley Paterson, and +other friends. At this meeting, Colours for the Regiment were promised +by Mr. Montagu M.W. Baird, the President of the Chamber; Bugles, by +Dr. and Mrs. Beilby, of the Technical College; and Pipes and Drums as +a joint gift by the Directors of the Chamber of Commerce and +Merchants' House. After the Meeting, the Battalion entrained for the +Camp at Gailes. + + [Illustration: MAJOR W.J. PAUL.] + + [Illustration: MAJOR JOHN R. YOUNG.] + + [Illustration: MAJOR W. AULD, V.D.] + + [Illustration: MAJOR E. HUTCHISON. + _To face page 16._] + + [Illustration: THE FAREWELL MEETING IN THE TECHNICAL COLLEGE. + _To face page 17._] + +A member of the Battalion, giving a general impression of these +memorable "first days," writes:-- + +"We all assembled in our various drill halls. We watched and +whispered. Some asked, who is that man with the loud voice shouting at +us, giving us papers and getting us into what he called Companies. We +knew soon. Then they selected N.C.O.'s (acting) from amongst those who +had some previous training. After that we went away. The N.C.O.'s +stayed and took the bundles of papers, our pledged word to our king, +and wearily for hours sorted them and listed the names. + +"Days followed when we marched and when we got to know our officers by +sight and to call ourselves by our Company name. Then came the day we +drew our kit and carried off strange bundles to our homes. We got the +magic words 'To camp at Gailes.' Then we were soldiers now. We paraded +by Companies and assembled in the Square and marched to the train. A +motley crowd carrying on our shoulders all manner of weird shaped +bundles. The crowd laughed and cheered us. Thus we left the City that +held us very peculiarly her own, her citizens and sons for the last +time. Henceforth her soldiers." + +The Chamber of Commerce Battalion was now an accomplished fact, and +the following authoritative acceptance by the Government and the War +Office, linked it as an integral part of the Service Regiments of the +British Army. + + + "WAR OFFICE, + "LONDON, S.W., _2nd November, 1914._ + + "TO THE PRESIDENT, + "CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, + "7 WEST GEORGE STREET, + "GLASGOW. + + "Sir, + + "I am commanded by the Army Council to offer you, and those + associated with you, their sincere thanks for having raised the + 17th (Service) Battalion, Highland Light Infantry (3rd Glasgow) + of which the administration has now been taken over by the + Military Authorities. + + "The Council much appreciated the spirit which prompted your + offer of assistance, and they are gratified at the successful + results of the time and labour devoted to this object, which has + added to the armed forces of the Crown the services of a fine + body of men. + + "The Council will watch the future career of the Battalion with + interest, and they feel assured that when sent to the front it + will maintain the high reputation of the distinguished Regiment + of which it forms part. + + "I am to add that its success on active service will largely + depend on the result of your efforts to keep the depot Companies + constantly up to establishment with men in every way fit for + service in the field. + + "I am, Sir, + "Your obedient Servant, + "(Signed) B.B. CUBITT." + +On 7th November, the Battalion paid a return visit to the City of +Glasgow. The Battalion arrived and formed up on the station platform. +A word of command and away they marched into the streets, crowded to +the uttermost by friends and relatives. Hardly a cheer was heard. The +men marched between banks of faces, in a deep silence. What a strange +reception, surely the most impressive men ever had, proving what was +in the hearts of those that watched the men and how they felt for +them. Only when they entered the Square did cheers and the buzzing of +an awaking crowd break out. "We felt," says an officer, "rather +disappointed; but we knew what it meant." The unit was then inspected +in front of the Municipal Buildings by representatives of the Chamber +of Commerce. + + [Illustration: EARLY DAYS.] + + [Illustration: A REST BY THE WAY. + _To face page 18._] + + [Illustration: H.R.H. THE DUKE OF CONNAUGHT, + Colonel-in-Chief of the H.L.I.] + + [Illustration: Colonel J. STANLEY PATERSON. + _To face page 19._] + + + + +ESPRIT DE CORPS. + + +It will be of value and interest to give here a brief survey of the +history of The Highland Light Infantry, which enshrines a record of +service and gallantry second to none in the annals of our Empire, and +to which the Chamber of Commerce Battalion was fated to add a page as +heroic and imperishable as any in its great traditions. + +The Highland Light Infantry was originally raised as two separate +Regiments of Foot, the 71st and the 74th. What was to become famous as +the 71st was raised in 1777 by Lord John MacLeod and was known as +"MacLeod's Highlanders." It was a kilted regiment and wore the +Mackenzie tartan. It was originally numbered the 73rd, and under this +designation won early distinctions in India in the campaigns against +Hyder Ali and Tippoo Sahib. Nine years after its inauguration it +became the 71st, and after service in Ceylon and at the Cape it +received in 1808 the title of "The Glasgow Regiment." Shortly after +this the 71st entered once more the fields of war in the Peninsula +campaign under Wellington, and shared in many actions including the +storming of Ciudad Rodrigo, the siege of Badajoz and at Vittoria. Then +came their crowning gallantry at Waterloo against the flower of +Napoleon's armies. In later years the Crimea, Canada and the Bermudas +were added to their war honours. + +The 74th was raised at Glasgow by Major-General Sir Archibald Campbell +with a view to service in India. The 74th also wore the kilt, but of +Black Watch tartan. Their record runs much on the same lines as that +of the 71st, and quickly they are also found performing deeds of +stubborn gallantry in India in the Mysore Territory. When the hour of +Tippoo Sahib had come, the 74th was the first to enter the tyrant's +last stronghold, but it was later, at the battle of Assaye that they +earned a fame which finds its echo to-day in the old badge of the +Elephant, which that action entitles them to wear. For long afterwards +the unit possessed the proud by-name of "The Assaye Regiment." After +sharing with the 71st in the rigours of the Peninsula, Canada and the +West Indies, the 74th saw service in the Kaffir War, Madras, and in +Egypt, including Tel-el-Kebir, where they were in the fiercest of the +fight. + +It was in 1809, as a reward for their services, that they were formed +into Light Infantry, and were permitted to retain such parts of the +national dress as were not inconsistent with the duties of Light +Infantry. They then discarded the kilt and adopted the tartan trews +which still appear in the full dress uniform of the Regiment. The kilt +is now worn by two Territorial Battalions, the 6th and the 9th. + +Subsequently the two Regiments were formed into one Regiment of two +Battalions. + +The "H.L.I.," as all the world calls it, was of course present during +the South African War. They fought at Modder River, and though they +suffered severely at Magersfontein, continued to share in the +hardships of the remainder of the campaign. + +At the outbreak of the Great War there were in addition to the 1st and +2nd Battalions, two Special Reserve Battalions (the 3rd and 4th) and +five Territorial Battalions, numbered the 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th and 9th. + +After declaration of war, the 10th, 11th, 12th, 13th, 14th, 15th, +16th, 17th, 18th, 19th and 20th Service Battalions were raised, +together with the 21st (Territorial) and 1st (Garrison) Battalions. In +addition, the 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th and 9th Battalions each had second +and third lines, and at one time there were as many as thirty +Battalions in existence. These were more or less connected with the +City of Glasgow and district, and serve as an indication of the +patriotism and loyalty of the community. + +On 14th December, 1914, the War Office issued an order that the +Chamber of Commerce Battalion was to form a unit of the New Army, and +was to be designated the 17th (Service) Battalion Highland Light +Infantry, of the 117th Infantry Brigade, of the 39th Division. This +intimation was received when the Battalion was stationed at Troon, and +was hailed with great enthusiasm by all ranks. + +Their comradeship in the common cause, their keenness for practical +service and the _esprit de corps_ engendered by their attachment to +the illustrious Highland Light Infantry, knit all ranks together in +enthusiasm and determination. + + [Illustration: ON THE SEA FRONT AT TROON.] + + [Illustration: LT.-COL. DAVID S. MORTON, V.D., C.M.G.] + + [Illustration: LEAVING TROON. + _To face page 20._] + + [Illustration: "GUARD, TURN OUT"--WENSLEY CAMP.] + + [Illustration: MESS ORDERLIES--PREES HEATH CAMP. + _To face page 21._] + +It was about this time that instructions were received to recruit a +fifth Company as part of the 17th Battalion establishment. As this +Company eventually became the nucleus of a further Battalion with a +parallel history of its own, it will be treated separately in another +chapter. (Page 89.) + + + + +HOME STATIONS AND TRAINING. + + +The Battalion arrived at Gailes on 23rd September, 1914, and this +event might be called the beginning of the Great Adventure. The war +seemed miles nearer as the light-hearted and high-spirited lads +stepped out of the train and viewed the rows of glistening white +tents. The large array of kit bags was in many instances supplemented +by suit cases, filled with surplus personal effects thought necessary +for creature comforts. The novelty of the surroundings, and twelve men +in a tent, including numerous belongings, did not conduce to sleep; +and the next morning reveille found all but the old soldier already +astir. The weeks at Gailes were spent in organising, and the efforts +of all ranks to become efficient were worthy of that spirit which +lasted throughout the existence of the Battalion. + +The issue of something in the nature of a uniform and a few Drill +Pattern rifles raised hopes that the training was being hurried on. On +the 13th October, a move was made to Troon, where the good citizens +afforded luxurious billets to the Battalion. + +In spite of the vigorous training that was enforced during the next +few months, and which stood the men in such good stead later on, the +social side was not neglected and helped to cement a great feeling of +good fellowship and understanding between the officers and men. It was +with mutual regret that the Seventeenth took its departure from Troon +on 13th May, 1915, and the memory of the stay in the Ayrshire town +will always remain as one of the most pleasant memories in the history +of the Battalion. + +There is something very remarkable about the record of the 17th H.L.I. +when billeted in Troon. For though brain-weary subalterns spent hours +trying to balance their billeting monies to the satisfaction of +exasperated and exacting Company Commanders, there was very little +trouble in the Orderly Room, that pulse of trouble. + +Here are some noteworthy facts:-- + + I.--The Guard Room was always empty. + + II.--There were practically no men "crimed" for lateness on + parade. + + III.--There were practically no "crimes" for being out of + "billets." + + IV.--There were no complaints of rowdyism in billets. + + V.--There were no charges of drunkenness. + + VI.--There were only very few charges of pass breaking. + + VII.--There were very few claims for damage, and these on + examination were more vindictive than real. + + VIII.--It was not necessary to serve any billeting notices. + +These are a few of the significant facts that mount up to bring honour +to the rank and file of the 17th H.L.I. + +The three troop-trains carrying the Battalion arrived at Whitchurch, +Shropshire, on the morning of the 14th May, and the men marched some +three miles south to the great hut-city on Prees Heath. This was the +first War Station of the Brigade, where the 15th, 16th and 17th H.L.I. +joined the 11th (S.) Battalion Border Regiment (The Lonsdales). There +the men found hut life very comfortable. The cleaning and tidying of +their new abodes kept them busy, and was carried out with the cheery +zest and whole-hearted enthusiasm so characteristic of the +Seventeenth. Full advantage was taken of the adjacent Y.M.C.A. +establishment, which proved an admirable Institution. The Concert +Hall, Refreshment Tables, Reading and Billiard Rooms, were well +patronised at all off-duty hours, and the men appreciated the cheerful +kindness of the attendants, who were voluntary lady workers from the +County houses. + +Extended manoeuvres were impracticable in this well-fenced +agricultural area, so the training embraced much route-marching, and +barrack-square work, musketry, signalling, visual training, etc. +There were several trying marches in the scorching May-June weather, +to Clive's native district, Moreton-Say and Market Drayton, to Wem and +Hodnet, and to the beautiful scenery of Hawkstone Park, and Iscoyd +Hall. Football, cricket, hockey, golf and cross-country running +provided healthy recreation, while excursions to old-world "Sleepy +Chester," to Shrewsbury and into Wales were popular week-ends. + + [Illustration: A PEACEFUL BIVOUAC--SALISBURY PLAIN.] + + [Illustration: RECRUITING MARCH AT GRAND PARADE, BATH. + _To face page 22._] + +In the third week of June, 1915, the 17th H.L.I. changed quarters from +the flat stifling district of Prees-Heath to the breezy upland valley +of Wensleydale, in the North Riding of Yorkshire. There is hardly a +level acre in the district, but this was a welcome change. Many an +enjoyable journey was made, in the intervals of Brigade Training, +northward to lonely Swaledale, south to Coverdale, across the Valley +of the Yore, to the prominent peak of Penhill, or to the beautiful +Aysgarth Falls. + +The Infantry Brigade, the 97th, had the 95th and the South Irish Horse +as comrades for the training round Leyburn and Middleham, and Bellerby +Moors; and some pleasant friendships were formed with the Warwickshire +and Gloucestershire lads, and with the "foine foightin' bhoys" from +Cork and Tipperary. + +On the 27th of July tents were shifted to Totley Rifle Ranges in +Derbyshire, where the preliminary Musketry Course was fired by the +Battalion during the next fortnight, with most creditable results. The +men made themselves great favourites in Totley and Dore, and at +Sheffield, where they received a very hospitable welcome at all times, +and especially on the occasion of a memorable route march through that +city on 9th August. The Battalion was given an enthusiastic send-off +at Dore and Beauchief Stations on 10th August, when entraining for +Salisbury Plain, the scene of their next training ground. + +When the Seventeenth steamed into the station at Codford St. Mary, on +11th August, and saw the occasional houses peeping through the tall +trees, it was the thought that, after the bustle and stir of Totley, +they had indeed become soldiers in earnest. The Camp Warden +strengthened this belief with his assurance that no unit stayed longer +than six weeks in the Camp, and after that,--Southampton and France, +for the testing and proof of all that had been learnt so eagerly. As +it turned out, three months were spent at Codford--months of rigorous +training, of long interesting divisional manoeuvres, and general +hardening. The men learned to dig trenches quickly and well, for they +had to spend nights in them; to march many miles without complaint, +and fight at the end of the hardest day's march; to use Lewis guns, +not as amateurs with a strange toy, but as men whose lives depended on +their speed and ability. The mysteries of transport, and the value of +a timetable were revealed. + +Needless to say these days of field exercises were not lacking in some +amusing incidents which seem to dog the footsteps of peace conditions +manoeuvres and which act as very welcome episodes amid the hard work +that such training involves. Towards the close of one of the +periodical manoeuvres carried out by the Seventeenth under the +critical eye of an Inspecting General a bugle had sounded and the +manoeuvres ceased. Officers grouped together and men lay on their +backs and talked. The General turned to one of the Battalion officers +who were now beginning to assemble round him, and said, "What was that +call?" He often did such things as this to test knowledge of detail. +"The Stand Fast," said the officer to whom the question was addressed. +"Oh! come! come!" said the General, "Now, what was it?" he further +questioned a Company Commander. No reply came. Then he turned to the +Second in Command, "Now, Major, what was it? Tell him." "The Stand +Fast, sir," said the Major. "Really," said the General, "you gentlemen +must learn the elementary things in soldiering. Bugler, tell these +gentlemen what that call was." "The Stand Fast, sir," replied the +bugler. The General hurried on with the conference! + +At Codford the Battalion had its first taste of army biscuit and +bully-beef. From Monday to Thursday manoeuvres were held; on Friday, +"clean up," and on Saturday, after the Colonel's inspection, the +luckier ones went to Bath and Bristol for the day, or to London or +Bournemouth for the week-end. Friday was pay day--"Seven Shillings me +lucky lad," and after pay-out, the reading of the Army Act or a +Lecture on bayonet-fighting or tactics. Games flourished. The +Battalion football team played and defeated Bath City, and met the +other Battalions of the Division at Rugby Football, and invariably +won. On the ranges with rifle and Lewis gun, the Battalion maintained +its place as _the_ Battalion in the Division. + + [Illustration: OFFICERS OF THE BATTALION AT MAR LODGE, TROON, + 1915. + _To face page 24._] + + [Illustration: VISIT OF THE DIRECTORS OF THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, + TROON, 1915. + _To face page 25._] + +At last word was received that the Battalion would cross to France on +November 22nd. Only fifty per cent. got week-end leave--there was no +time for more. Training was over. Few will forget the brave skirl of +the pipes as the Battalion swung home in the morning from Yarnbury +Castle, file after file silhouetted against the orange and gold of the +rising sun. Always, when the wind blows fresh and sweet in the +morning, those who are left of those happy times will think of +Codford, the "jumping off place" of the Seventeenth for France. + +The following message of God-speed and goodwill was received by the +Battalion as part of the 32nd Division before setting out:-- + + + "17TH SERVICE BATTALION HIGHLAND LIGHT INFANTRY. + "BRIGADE ORDER NO. 1285, OF 19TH NOVEMBER, 1915. + "MESSAGE FROM HIS MAJESTY THE KING. + + "Officers, Non-Commissioned Officers and Men of the 32nd + Division, on the eve of your departure for Active Service I send + you my heartfelt good wishes. + + "It is a bitter disappointment to me, owing to an unfortunate + accident, I am unable to see the Division on Parade before it + leaves England; but I can assure you that my thoughts are with + you all. + + "Your period of training has been long and arduous, but the time + has now come for you to prove on the Field of Battle the results + of your instruction. + + "From the good accounts that I have received of the Division, I + am confident that the high traditions of the British Army are + safe in your hands, and that with your comrades now in the Field + you will maintain the unceasing efforts necessary to bring the + War to a victorious ending. + + "Good-bye and God-speed." + +To the above message the following reply was sent:-- + + "Please convey to His Majesty the heartfelt thanks of all ranks + of the 32nd Division for His gracious message and their + determination to justify His expectations. + + "The Division deeply regrets the accident which has deprived it + of the honour of a visit from His Majesty, and humbly offers its + best wishes for His Majesty's speedy and complete recovery." + +On Sunday, 21st November, 1915, the Battalion paraded in full +strength, 1,032 all ranks, at their hutments, Codford. A minute and +final inspection was made, and everything pronounced to be in order. A +memorable feature of this parade was the head-gear, Balmoral bonnets +of the war service pattern being worn for the first time. Next morning +the Battalion left Codford in three parties for Southampton, and +without any delay embarked on two transports for Havre, the remainder +of the Division going _via_ Boulogne. It was a perfect crossing, no +wind, bright moonlight, with everyone in the best of spirits. + +At 7 a.m. on the 23rd, the troops disembarked at the port of Havre and +marched off at once to the Rest Camp, three miles away, great interest +being displayed in the few German prisoners working on the docks. On +arrival the Battalion found it was under canvas, no floor boards and +plenty of mud--a first taste of real discomfort. Moreover the day was +raw, with a suspicion of snow, and no one was sorry when it was +announced that the Camp was being left first thing in the morning. +That evening a few of the Officers visited the town itself, and others +went out on a first reconnaissance to discover the route to the +station, and the Ration Depot. + +The next day, after drawing two days' rations as well as "Iron +Rations," the Battalion left for the "Front,"--"A," "B," and "C" +Companies going off at 1.15 p.m., and "D" Company following a few +hours later. + + [Illustration: CHAMBER OF COMMERCE BATTALION, TROON, APRIL, + 1915.] + + + + +II.--ACTIVE SERVICE. + + +ON TREK. + + _Arrival at Havre--March to the forward area--Bouzincourt and + Millencourt--instructional tour of front line + trenches--condition of trenches--first casualties--Molliens._ + + +The Battalion arrived at the Port of Le Havre, disembarked in high +spirits, and in the morning of 23rd November, 1915, part of the troops +left the docks for a three mile trek to a rest camp; but soon the +Battalion set out on its first journey "up the line" in cattle trucks. +Travelling through the night of the 24th, via Rouen and Amiens, the +unit reached Pont Remy, some twelve miles east of Abbeville, in the +early hours of the following day, and soon had commenced their first +route march into the battle-ways of France, and, incidentally, at the +first resting place, Mouflers, made cheerily light of what was their +first experience of faulty billeting arrangements. One billet, for 150 +men, at the Folie Auberge was uninhabitable, and the appearance of the +billets in general was greeted with good-natured growls of amazement +and disgust. The weather, however, was mild and sunny, and after about +eight hours' work all the troops were more or less under cover. When +every incident was an experience novel and suggestive, such minor +discomforts did not trouble anyone seriously; but considered in +retrospect it must be admitted that these, their first billets, were +very poor for a village so far behind the line. If it was an +unpromising beginning for the companies, it proved a delusion and a +snare for headquarters, for they scored on this occasion in having at +the Chateau the most comfortable billets they ever were fated to +enjoy. + +The next day was spent in resting, and on the 27th the march was +continued along the magnificent Amiens Road, through Felixcourt and +Belloy-sur-Somme to La Chaussee. This was a day of keen frost and +bright sunshine, and headed by the band, the 17th stepped out through +the various villages in the best of spirits. Following the same column +was the 17th Northumberland Fusiliers and two A.S.C. Companies. That +night the billets were good, everyone felt somehow in holiday mood, +helped perhaps by the successful bargaining for eggs, chickens and +wine, for to make purchases at all was even at that early date a +matter for rejoicing. The pipers delighted with their playing the +heart of Madame la Comptesse at her chateau at Turancourt where +Brigade headquarters were stationed. + +On the 28th, a bitterly cold day, the Battalion marched eleven miles +via Coisy and Ranneville to Molliens-au-Bois, and there they stayed +until the morning of December 1st, when they were joined by M. +Duchamps, interpreter. Molliens-au-Bois lies about eight miles north +of Amiens, but the outstanding feature was that, from the high ground +above there was got the first glimpse of the illuminations provided +nightly by the Bosche, all along the battle front. + +On 1st December they left at 8.15 a.m., in company with the 16th +H.L.I., and on the way a Company of the 17th Northumberland Fusiliers +joined the column, which now was moving into the front area. + +During the afternoon of that day, the Officers and N.C.O.s of "A" and +"B" Companies went from Bouzincourt into the front line trenches, just +north of Albert, and were attached for instruction to the 7th Gordons +and the 7th Black Watch of the 51st Division, and on the following day +these two Companies joined their Officers in the front line for one +night. The trenches were in a very bad condition after hard frost and +heavy rain. Parts of the trenches were collapsing under the severe +conditions and cases were reported from neighbouring units of men +being drowned in the mud and water. + +On the 3rd and 4th December "C" and "D" Companies from Millencourt +went through a similar programme. On the 6th the front line only of +Sectors F1 and F2 were taken over, and then on the 8th the whole +Battalion took over Sector F1--some 2,000 yards of system from just +north of La Boisselle towards Authuille (Blighty) Wood. The front line +and communication trenches were knee deep in water and the trench +shelters were poor. Rats galore and of enormous size added to the +amenity of the district. + + [Illustration: HAVRE.] + + [Illustration: RUINS OF BETHUNE. + _To face page 28._] + +On the 4th of December the 17th suffered their first casualty by enemy +action, Pte. J.M. Harper, "A" Company, being wounded by a rifle +grenade. + +The next day Ptes. A. Taylor and R. Cross, of "D" Company, were +wounded while bringing up rations. On the afternoon of the 11th, the +Battalion, having completed its course of practical instruction, was +relieved, and returned, two Companies to Bouzincourt, two to +Millencourt. During the relief the enemy shelled the position heavily, +and the Battalion was fortunate in escaping with only one casualty, +Pte. R. M'Kelvie of "B" Company. The next day the Battalion marched +back to Molliens-au-Bois, via Senlis and Beaucourt, to recuperate +after their opening experience of active trench warfare conditions. +The mud and water and the delapidated condition of the trenches were +indeed an eye-opener to the men, as much as the comparative absence of +"enemy activity." As they tramped back to Molliens, they passed some +Companies of the 15th H.L.I. en route for their first spell, and their +blank astonishment at the muddy appearance of the returning 17th +Battalion was much appreciated by the war-worn veterans! + +All ranks received a good reception from the villagers, and the next +few days were spent in resting, inspections and training. Considerable +time was taken up in making duck-boards from the smaller trees of a +wood near the village until this exercise was stopped by the forester. +A few secured the grant of leave to Amiens, a privilege greatly +enjoyed. The work of the organisations home in Glasgow and the +interest taken in the Regiment and the men of the 17th Battalion soon +became manifested by the arrival of parcels to such an extent that the +postal arrangements were severely strained! + + + + +TRENCH ROUTINE. + + _In the line--Xmas '15 and the New Year--the new + trench--"Standing to"--routine and patrols._ + + +The Battalion returned to the line from Molliens-au-Bois on 23rd +December, 1915, and from then till 17th February, 1916, held the +Sector F1 alternately with the 11th Border Regiment. The outstanding +features of this period were the digging and then the taking over of +the new trenches across the big re-entrant on their right on 2nd +February, and the enemy raid on the 2nd K.O.Y.L.I., on their left on +9th February. + +It will be noted that this spell of trench warfare activities brackets +in both Christmas and New Year--both of which were accordingly spent +in the front line trenches. As far as possible Christmas fare was +provided in the line, and strict orders were issued that if the enemy +made any friendly offers they were to be rejected strenuously. The +only exchange of greetings notified for Christmas and New Year in the +Official War Diary of the Battalion is a brief record of shelling and +machine gunning. But during this period the Battalion had nevertheless +very few casualties--only seven killed, including two died of wounds. +The first casualty was Corporal Houston of No. 16 Platoon, who was +killed at Lower Donnet on 3rd January. + +Except for patrol work, the piece of work carried out on 2nd February, +1916, in connection with the new trenches was the first military +operation carried out by the 17th when in close touch with the enemy, +and it was confined to "B" Company and a Platoon of "A" Company, who +acted as covering party. + +For some time the Battalion had been exercised in night manoeuvres, +and on 1st February they had a full-dress rehearsal of the impending +operation, which, on Tuesday, 2nd February, came off sooner than had +been anticipated. The scheme was to form a new line of trenches, +protected by wire, nearer the German line, some 300 yards in front of +the existing one, the length dug being about 600 yards, with +communication trenches in addition. + +At 6 p.m., in pitch darkness, "B" Company filed out into "no man's +land." Instructions were, "No firing, bayonet only if necessary." +There were Hun flares and machine guns, but no search-light. Had the +enemy but used the light, all might have been spoiled. Their lives +depended on no Hun reaching their line, or getting back with +information. They went straight out the 600 yards without a hitch. +That fixed their right flank, where Major J.R. Young was in command. +Captain Russell led his half Company 500 yards straight across the +front, with two scouts on either side, checking. At every five yards a +man dropped and was placed, facing his proper front. They moved +slowly, snail pace, but only three times in the 500 yards had the line +to drop flat, until the last man was placed. The next thing was to get +in touch with "A" Company, who were putting out the platoon to guard +"B" Company's left flank. Rather jumpy work, this joining hands in +pitch darkness. It was a long, silent night. At 9.30 the tinkling +sound of the wire being fixed was heard, and they knew from this that +the digging had commenced--some 800 men, good and true, working +silently as they had never worked before. + +When 1.30 a.m. came their time was up. The right half Company, under +Major Young, rose silently, and crept off to a place in the wire where +a gap had been arranged for the men to pass through. Captain Russell +with the left half Company followed. The wiring and digging went on +till 3 a.m., protected by patrols sent out in front of the wire. A new +trench, with communication trenches, had been laid 300 yards out from +their old line, protected by treble staked wire, on a frontage of 600 +yards. The new trench was held till dawn before handing over. There +was no hitch, and not a man wounded. The Battalion would have given +much to see the Huns' faces when they looked across and found that +long line of serpentine earth and wire shoved out under their noses. +There would probably be some court-martialling of their patrols. +Everything worked in absolute harmony, and with perfect success, and +all got back safe to tell the tale. The Hun discovered what had been +done only the following morning when all was over. + +The lack of the more strenuous forms of active service excitement +during the digging of this trench was more than made up for in the +week following--when it was manned nightly in full strength, in spite +of severe bombardment by the enemy. + +After the successful and useful piece of work in advancing the line +just described, the Battalion settled down to a period of normal +trench warfare and intensive training, but managed to slip in a game +of Rugger and an Association game or two. Intermittent spells of +artillery and trench mortar and gas shell bombardments of varying +severity disturbed the sector, but despite this the unit not only +immediately repaired any damage done, but considerably extended and +improved the system. + +On the 9th of February the shelling became very heavy, culminating +towards evening in an intense bombardment on the sector lying to the +left of F1. At the same time an attempt was made to neutralise the +fire of the British batteries on the Ancre by gas shells. Intense +excitement prevailed in the Battalion, which was billeted in Aveluy, +in Brigade support, when it was called on to "stand to" and man the +bridge-head defences. Meantime the Hun carried out a raid on a part of +the line known as the Nab, which was occupied by the 2nd K.O.Y.L.I. +This point was occupied for half-an-hour or so by the enemy, who +picked up about eleven K.O.Y.L.I. prisoners and then retired. The +K.O.Y.L.I. suffered some sixty casualties in killed, wounded and +missing, so "B" Company and part of "C" of the 17th were rushed up +into the raided sector to reinforce the battered garrison, and stayed +there till morning. + +Again the conditions stereotyped themselves into that nerve racking +ordeal known to the civilian public as "nothing to report"--the type +of warfare recognised by all who have any experience of modern active +service life as calling for all that is highest in regimental +efficiency and discipline, and individual initiative and grit. The +weather, taking it all over, was wet and stormy, causing endless work +in repairing the line and pumping the trenches clear of water. But the +bright star in this bloody, muddy firmament was the commencement of +leave, which opened about the 14th February. Even if your name was +well down the list, or not yet even on it at all, a new species of +keen counter-attraction was provided to the demands of war. + + + + +THE RAID. + + _The "Red" Division--in the line at Authuille--Colonel Morton + wounded on March 21st--a raid postponed--carried out on + 22nd--success of Lieut. Begg's party--congratulatory messages + and awards._ + + +On 17th February, 1916, the 97th Brigade was relieved by the 96th +Brigade, and consequently the Battalion moved back for an expected +rest of some weeks. The 15th Lancashire Fusiliers took over the +Battalion Sector, and the 17th went into billets at Millencourt. Many +fatigues were carried out round about Albert, the principal work being +the laying of cables and the improving of roads. On the 24th, quarters +were changed to Henencourt and from billets into huts in the +wood--most unpleasant, firstly on account of snow and frost, and then, +following a thaw, on account of knee-deep mud. But a further change on +the 29th to Dernancourt brought back billets good and comfortable. + +The attack on Verdun had upset the plans which had been made to give +the Brigade the rest which it had been anticipating, and this last +move to Dernancourt brought them into the line once more, just south +of Albert. + +The 32nd Division, by now, with good cause, had been named by the +Germans as the "Red" Division because the Hun was given no rest by the +Divisional Artillery and constant raids, and on account of the red +distinguishing marks worn by all ranks of the Division on their tunic +sleeves. The 32nd took over from the 18th Division, and on the 1st of +March, 1916, the Brigade was in Divisional Reserve. On the 3rd of +March, the 97th Brigade relieved the 14th Brigade, the 11th Border +Regiment and 2nd K.O.Y.L.I. taking over. On March 10th the 17th H.L.I. +relieved the 11th Border Regiment, and so once more they were in +immediate face of the enemy. This sector was in front of Becourt +Chateau, between Fricourt and La Boiselle. + +A considerable amount of wiring was done, but life here was +comparatively pleasant and the return of spring much appreciated. +But, unfortunately, on the 21st of March, Col. Morton was wounded at +Albert, Major Paul taking over command of the Battalion. + +Working parties were heavy, and on one occasion the Bosche blew a +camouflet while work was in progress. During this period great +preparations were made for a raid, and there was keen competition for +a place in the selected party. The night selected for the raid, 2nd +April, however, was unfortunately bright, and this combined with the +fact that the enemy, by means of listening apparatus, seemed fully +aware of what was on, led to a postponement when actually in "no man's +land." The hazardous work of laying the guide tape preparatory to the +abandoned raid was carried out by 2nd Lieut. H. MacRobert and Corpl. +J. Chapman. + +This Sector was left on the 4th of April, and the Battalion, being +relieved by the 2nd Scottish Rifles, of the 23rd Brigade, 8th +Division, moved to Bouzincourt and went into huts vacated by the 2nd +Inniskillens. + +After a week's rest at Bouzincourt the Battalion returned to the line +at Authuille, on 12th April, 1916, the 97th Brigade holding the line +between that village and north to Thiepval, with the two other +Brigades behind, in support and in reserve. Alternately in the line, +in support, and in reserve, the 17th remained in this Sector until the +opening of the Somme Battle on 1st July, 1916. But the period was not +without stirring incident. By the 15th of April final arrangements +were being made to carry out what was to prove a highly successful +raid on the enemy, which operation was accomplished on 22nd April. + +"23rd April, 1916,--Last night we made a successful raid against the +enemy's trenches, south-west of Thiepval. Thirteen prisoners were +captured, and in addition, a number of casualties were caused to the +enemy by our men bombing their dug-outs. Our casualties were very +slight." + +This bald official statement of the 17th H.L.I.'s first raid is to the +lay mind singularly unimpressive, but behind it there is an interest +and a measure of glory of which the 17th is happy to be proud. Let it +be remembered that it was their first "stunt," their first real hand +to hand brush with the enemy, and that to the 17th fell the honour of +getting the first "jab in" for the 32nd Division. + + [Illustration: THE CATHEDRAL, ALBERT--BEFORE THE WAR.] + + [Illustration: THE CATHEDRAL, ALBERT--AFTER BOMBARDMENT. + _To face page 34._] + + [Illustration: LIEUT.-COLONEL D.S. MORTON, V.D., C.M.G. + _To face page 35._] + +It was on the 28th of March, 1916, that volunteers were called for to +raid the enemy's trenches, and out of the hundred who answered, a +party of 45 was selected, under Lieut. A.J. Begg, and Lieut. J.N. +Carpenter. This party went down to Dernancourt, behind Albert, to +complete the training for the raid, and the intention was to rush the +enemy on the night of 2nd April. That night, however, as already +explained, proved unfavourable on account of a bright moon, and the +party, after crawling stealthily towards the enemy's wire were +observed near his trenches and were forced to withdraw. Training was +resumed at Bouzincourt, and it was decided then to have the assistance +of a preliminary artillery bombardment. A point in the enemy's salient +south-west of Thiepval was selected, the wire there was cut in advance +by the artillery, and close observation was maintained on the spot +from day to day. Meanwhile the enemy's fortifications were duplicated +on the ground behind Bouzincourt, and there, night after night, the +raiding party practised the assault. The most careful preparations +were entailed, with much planning and understanding of detail. Every +man had to know thoroughly his part. There had to be no hitch +anywhere. Lieut. Begg saw to it that the training was complete, and +given any luck, success was fully assured. + +On the night of the 22nd of April, the party, with blackened hands and +faces, and equipped with an assortment of weapons worthy of Mexican +outlaws, presented themselves at the head of Thiepval Avenue, and +filed up to the "starting point" to await the report of the Patrol +under Lieut. MacRobert, who also had charge of the tape-laying party +which included Corporal Chapman. At 9.30 p.m. our artillery suddenly +opened on the enemy's salient, and poured down on it such a tornado of +steel as the Germans had never experienced before. For twenty minutes +our shells flayed the German front line, and under this arch of +shrieking explosives the battle party crawled right up to the rim of +the bombardment. What wire remained uncut was blown to fragments by a +torpedo, and when the barrage lifted and came down behind, the raiders +jumped into the enemy's trench and set to work. For twenty minutes +they bombed and destroyed, cleared dug-outs, pulled down machine guns, +barricaded communication trenches, and handed prisoners back to +escorts. Then on a signal they as quickly withdrew, and still under +cover of artillery fire made their own trench again. Thirteen +affrighted Germans, of two different units, accompanied the party; +and, finest of all, every man of the party returned. Eleven of them +were wounded, but only one seriously. Among those slightly wounded was +Lieut. Begg, who was the spirit of the assault. + +As a result of this success many congratulatory messages were received +and several decorations awarded. Among the list of telegrams were the +following:-- + + From the G.O.C. 10th CORPS:--"Corps Commander congratulates the + 17th H.L.I. on their successful enterprise, which reflects + great credit on all concerned." + + From the G.O.C. 32nd DIVISION:--"I congratulate you. I was + confident that the 17th H.L.I. would do the trick. Convey this + message to them." + + From Sir HENRY RAWLINSON, G.O.C. 4th ARMY:--"Please convey to 32nd + Division, and particularly to the 97th Brigade and 17th + Battalion Highland Light Infantry, my heartiest + congratulations on their successful raid last night. The + preparations were well and carefully thought out, the + Artillery support was good, and the whole conduct of the + operations reflects credit on all concerned." + + From the G.O.C. 97th INFANTRY BRIGADE:--"Commander-in-Chief has + awarded the following decorations:--Lieut. Begg, and 2nd Lieut + Carpenter, Military Cross; 15507 Sergt.-Major Reith, D.C.M.; + 15458 Sergeant Taylor, 2797 Private Leiper and 15720 Private + M'Intosh, Military Medal. All 17th H.L.I. Major-General + Rycroft offers his heartiest congratulations to above + officers, N.C.O.s and men on their decorations. Letter with + authority following." + +The Battalion had three men killed and four wounded during enemy +retaliation, but any serious effort by the enemy was checked, and on +the 24th the unit went into reserve billets at Bouzincourt. + + + + +A LULL BEFORE THE STORM. + + _Preparations commenced for the Somme offensive--a complimentary + shoot with "P" Battery--Divisional, Brigade and Battalion + identification marks--happy days at Rubempre._ + + +On 27th April, in brilliant summer weather, the Commanding Officer, +Company Commanders, the Intelligence Officer and four N.C.O.s per +Company attended a Divisional Exercise at Baizieux, and this was the +start of those preparations which were to culminate in the Battle of +the Somme on 1st July. + +On 3rd May the Colonel returned and took over command from Major Paul, +and during the following day, Major Lawder, Commanding "A" Battery, +168th Brigade, R.F.A., entertained those who had taken part in the +raid and allowed them to fire the guns which had rendered such fine +support during the sortie. + +Identification marks had now been issued for some time for major +operations pending. The Divisional colours were crimson and the sleeve +mark was a red circle for the 97th Brigade. The K.O.Y.L.I. had one bar +below the circle; the Border Regiment, two; the 16th H.L.I., three; +and the 17th, four bars, worn horizontally and parallel. Runners, +bombers, etc., had further identification marks. Prior to this, from +November 1915, to April, 1916, no distinctive mark had been worn on +the sleeve, but on the centre of the tunic collar at the back there +was worn a strip of ribbon coloured yellow, pale blue, and yellow. +During the succeeding period, up to the disbandment of the Battalion, +the sleeve marks were used only. While the circle was always red the +bars were coloured respectively black for Headquarters; red for "A" +Company; green for "B"; yellow for "C"; and blue for "D" Company. The +Divisional sign on flags and limbers, etc., was a red coloured +intertwined double 8. + +The weather was now very fine, and when not in the line, delightful +days were spent at Rubempre, Contay and Warloy, and strenuous days on +Divisional exercises at Baizieux in preparation for the Somme. From +this it will be seen that the Battalion was not engaged in killing +Germans all the time, or being killed by them. At times they had a +change. There were periods of rest. The word "rest" is very often the +subject of sarcastic humour amongst troops. "Resting" may mean +anything. It may be quite a good time or it may be worse than the +firing line. Too often it is simply an occasion of smartening +up--guards, ceremonial parades, saluting, and "spit and polish" +generally--in fact the things that can be indulged in to excess. And +very often a rest simply means preparation for a big stunt. But the +17th will remember occasions when they did have a real rest. This was +particularly the case at Rubempre. The weather was good, and they had +a comparatively easy time. They had about three hours' training in the +forenoons. Thereafter they were free. There were sports and games in +the afternoons for the enthusiasts. There were entirely successful +concerts and sing-songs in the evenings. It was a change to see and be +among civilians--to be welcome in the village houses--and generally to +experience peace time conditions again. This may not seem to amount to +very much, but it meant a lot then. And it certainly had a fine effect +on the morale of the Battalion. It was a sheer relief to be out of +sound of the guns, to forget the mud, the exhaustion, mental and +physical, the weary night watches, standing to, and working parties. + +But such days passed quickly, and all too soon they found themselves +on the road again, loaded up, silent, thoughtful, on the way back to +the firing line. + + + + +THE BATTLE OF THE SOMME. + + _Spirit of the Battalion prior to the battle--zero and "over the + top"--Leipzig Trench carried--flanks exposed--precarious + position of the unit--great casualties--protective bombing + posts--consolidation--Battalion relieved--Victoria Cross gained + by Sergeant Turnbull--Roll Call._ + + +Signs of the coming conflict were everywhere. The tremendous +accumulation of men and material had been going on unceasingly for +weeks, and during the long June days clouds of dust hung in the hot, +still air above the roads. For the roads all led towards the line, and +the tramp of men, and the rumble of wheels were unending. The +Battalion had long ago recovered from a hard and monotonous winter of +trench warfare. To each man there remained the joy of remembering days +and nights that were unpleasant--for it is a joy to remember, in the +comfort and happiness of to-day, the discomforts and sorrows of +yesterday. Now the sun was shining. Training was going on apace under +the pleasantest of conditions. They were a healthy family. Each man +felt his potentiality, and unconsciously boasted it in his every +action. Such was the feeling in the Battalion when the certainty of +conflict came. To everyone it was the "Big Push"--the mighty +Armageddon--of which all had thought and spoken during the winter of +waiting. There was no doubt as to the issue. Each man went about his +duties with an eye to an immediate and definite future. If anything he +gave greater care to his rifle. In his feeling the edge and point of +his bayonet, there was something of a caress. Now was the look in each +eye born of the lust of killing. It was the knowledge that on a bright +morning--now only a few hours distant--man would be matched against +man. "Justice of our cause may have been somewhere in our +sub-consciousness. Certainly it was not uppermost. To each man the +coming conflict savoured of individual mortal combat. The days of +waiting were gone. He was going forward to prove his manhood"--so +write two veterans of that fight. + +The story of that morning is an epic. For every man it was the first +experience of "over the top." In sun-baked trenches everyone longed +for the zero hour, while the guns rolled and shells crashed with +ever-increasing intensity. Nothing was real. Men stood and waited as +if in a dream. They felt as if they were listening to the overture; +that soon the curtain would rise. Even when the guns ceased their roar +for a few moments towards the end, and in the death-like stillness was +heard the warbling of birds in "no man's land"--the grim reality of it +all was felt. With the lifting mist of the morning, the curtain +rose.... + +At 7.23 a.m. the Battalion started moving across "no man's land." When +the barrage lifted the men entered the enemy front line and the work +of the moppers-up soon began. The advance across the open was +splendidly carried out, all ranks behaving magnificently, as was the +case throughout the entire action. Leipzig Trench was taken and the +leading lines advanced against the Hindenburg Trench. These were mown +down and by 8.15 a.m. every Company Officer was a casualty. It now +became obvious to Colonel Morton that Leipzig Trench must be held, as +without reinforcements, no further advance could be made, both flanks +being exposed, as the 8th Division on their right had been driven +back. The left was particularly exposed and parties under Sergt. +Macgregor and Sergt. Watt were organised and sent to strengthen the +left where "B" and "D" Companies had been almost annihilated. It was +now 9 o'clock and the Battalion casualties now amounted to 22 officers +and 400 other ranks. The bombers, who had been sent up to replace +casualties, were holding the flanks successfully. By 11.15 the entire +line was very weak, and still at 2 o'clock in the afternoon the +situation was unchanged, 2nd Lieut. Morrison and 2nd Lieut. Marr +working and organising the protective flank bombers without the least +regard for personal safety. At 4 o'clock the 2nd Manchesters +reinforced them with two Companies. Just at this time the line wavered +a little in face of the overwhelming bombardment and the appalling +casualties, but control was immediately gained. At 5 the shattered +unit was ordered to consolidate the ground taken. This was done and +two strong enemy counter attacks repulsed. At 9.30 the Battalion +started to be relieved by the Manchesters, but the relief was not +wholly carried out until near midnight, although several bombing +parties had to carry on till well towards mid-day of the following +day before being relieved. The 17th concentrated on Campbell Post and +held the line in that Sector. In the evening of the next day the +Battalion was relieved and returned to dug-outs at Crucifix Corner. + + [Illustration: MAP ILLUSTRATING THE OPERATIONS OF 1st JULY, 1916. + Objective of Attack--Mouquet Farm. First German Line attacked and + taken, C--D. Trench Line from which the attack was launched, + A--B. Second German Line taken and lost, E--F. + Note the Salient C--D and its exposure to German fire and attack + on the Flanks. + _To face page 40._] + +The first V.C., not only for the Battalion, but of the Division was +gained in this battle and was won by Sergeant James Young Turnbull. + +The following is the extract from _The London Gazette_, of 25th +December, 1916, intimating the award of the Victoria Cross:-- + + "No. 15888 Sergeant JAMES YOUNG TURNBULL, + late Highland Light Infantry. + + "For most conspicuous bravery and devotion to duty, when, having + with his party captured a post apparently of great importance to + the enemy, he was subjected to severe counter attacks, which + were continuous throughout the whole day. Although his party was + wiped out and replaced several times during the day, Sergeant + Turnbull never wavered in his determination to hold the post, + the loss of which would have been very serious. Almost + single-handed he maintained his position and displayed the + highest degree of valour and skill in the performance of his + duties. + + "Later in the day this gallant soldier was killed whilst bombing + a counter-attack from the parados of our trench." + +Of all the units operating in that ghastly Sector, the 17th H.L.I. was +the only Battalion which reached and occupied and held the enemy's +trenches from La Boiselle northwards. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, writing +of the battle of the Somme in his history of the war, emphasises what +this unadorned record of the day's fighting bears out--that there had +been no flinching anywhere, and the military virtue shown had been of +the highest possible quality; but the losses from the machine guns and +from the barrage was so heavy that they deprived the attack of the +weight and momentum necessary to win their way through the enemy's +position. "In the desperate circumstances," he says, "it might well be +considered a remarkable result that a stretch of the Leipzig Redoubt +should be won and permanently held by the Highlanders, especially by +the 17th Highland Light Infantry." + +Throughout these terrible operations Colonel Morton was present in the +most advanced positions encouraging and cheering the men by his +personal example and utter disregard for danger. In this work he was +gallantly seconded by his Adjutant and his Headquarters' Staff, who +were individually forward directing operations when all the Company +Officers had been knocked out. It is not too much to say that the +resolute spirit and example of the Colonel rallied the Battalion to +heights of endurance and endeavour which found their greatest +inspiration in his presence in the firing line. + +Great work was also done by Captain D.C. Evans, R.A.M.C., who, for +over forty-eight hours, without interval or rest, attended to the +Battalion wounded. Throughout the action he carried on his task of +relieving suffering and saving life quite heedless of the shelling and +firing and quite cool in the face of the ever growing number of cases +demanding his attention and skill. + +At the Battalion parade for Roll Call on the 4th of July, the +casualties totalled 22 officers and 447 other ranks. + + + + +A DIARY ACCOUNT OF THE BATTLE. + + _Extract from the personal diary of the late Lieut. B. Meadows + giving a wonderfully realistic picture of the July 1st Battle._ + + +The narrative of the 1st of July Somme Battle as written in the diary +of the late 2nd Lieut. B. Meadows, who, before taking his commission, +served with the 17th H.L.I., gives such an impressive account of the +battle that we include it here almost in entirety. The foregoing +chapter gives a general idea of the intensity of the great battle from +the impersonal and official viewpoint, with data checked and balanced. +But the following account introduces the personal and human element +with poignant effect. Some of the very minor facts are a little +inaccurate, but that is inevitable when an individual soldier +describes a general action from his own viewpoint. Nevertheless the +editors consider that in no other Battalion source is there such a +vivid record of experiences to be got which reflect the feelings of +all those who took part in the action concerned. + +"The last four days before zero," he writes, "were known as 'W,' 'X,' +'Y,' and 'Z' days. By 'W' every enemy observation balloon had been +destroyed and so dense a fleet of aircraft patrolled the battle area +as to make it impossible for the enemy aircraft to approach the lines. +Thus the enemy was made blind. On the night of 'W' we got orders to +move forward. Before leaving the billet we made a large bonfire with +boxes from the C.Q.M.'s stores. On this we burned all our letters, and +round it we had the last sing-song the old 'Seventeenth' ever had. We +then believed it 'Y' night, not 'W' night. The night before we had +gone up to the trenches through Aveluy and Authuille with petrol tins +full of water. These were stocked in dug-outs and along the trench and +formed our reserve water supply. Many of our guns were firing 'gun +fire,' yet the enemy made little artillery reply. He retaliated +chiefly on the front line defences with trench mortars. Of such a +violent nature was this bombardment that the Lonsdales had to call on +our 'D' Company for support to make up for their casualties in shell +shock, etc. Curiously enough, during the days 'D' Company held the +line they suffered no casualties, although the trench was battered out +of all recognition. When it was dark on 'W' night we marched to +Bouzincourt. Here we spent the night in huts. Before daybreak we were +shelled and had one man killed. Day showed an extraordinary sight. +Bouzincourt stands on the hill, the battle area stretched out like a +map below. Near the Crucifix on the Aveluy road a long naval gun +barked. Just behind us was a 15 inch howitzer. Its shells could easily +be watched in their flight overhead. In front were an infinite number +of guns all in action. A long line of observation balloons made a +crescent round Albert. One could count over twenty, and not one +German. The air was thick with our aeroplanes. The German lines looked +like long ribbons of white fur. The air was full of shrapnel balls, +especially over the woods, and the villages were burning. The heavy +howitzers were causing dreadful eruptions on the German strong points. +La Boisselle, believed impregnable, was a concentrated hell. The +Germans were putting shrapnel into the woods that lie in the triangle +between Hamel, Bouzincourt and Aveluy. Here our guns were massed. And +now and then a mushroom of smoke would spring up in unexpected +places. The noise was so terrific that it became monotonous. We were +served out with cotton wool for our ears, but in spite of this the +concussion on the 1st of July was so great that we all became stone +deaf, and for days after almost without the use of our voices. We +prepared for 'battle order.' All our belongings we packed into our +valises, and these were stored in an empty house in Bouzincourt. We +wore steel helmets, at that time they were without sandbag coverings, +and in strong sunlight reflected almost as brilliantly as polished +steel. I noticed on the 1st July, looking back from the advanced line +to the German original front line, how the helmets of our reserves +holding that line shone up and made their wearers clear targets. We +wore the haversack on our back containing mess tin, small kit, two +days' rations, 'iron rations,' pair of socks and waterproof sheet. We +carried four sandbags just below. Then we had the usual equipment, +pouches containing 120 rounds, bayonet, water bottle and entrenching +tool. Another 100 rounds in bandoliers, and I had extra an apron +containing 12 Mill's bombs and butterfly wirecutters. The whole formed +fairly heavy equipment. In the late afternoon when we were all lined +up prepared to march off, orders came to cancel all orders. We stood +by for two days. On 'X' night the 16th H.L.I. sent a platoon over to +find out the condition of the enemy defences. Owing to an accident +they were almost entirely wiped out. On the following morning while +playing a football match the Sixteenth again suffered casualties from +a 5.9 which burst between the goal posts. In the evening of 'Z' day, +the 30th of June, we marched off by platoons. The thunder of the heavy +guns as we passed through their belt was almost unbearable, and nearer +the lines long lines of eighteen-pounders were giving 'battery fire' +down long rows of twenty batteries, sometimes all speaking at once. We +entered 'Oban Avenue' at the right end of the village of Authuille. It +was the 'up' trench for the advance and 'Campbell Avenue' the 'down.' +Both trenches had been deepened, in some places, to twelve feet, and +were fairly safe from shrapnel. The line in which we were to spend the +night had been blown almost completely out of existence and it was +difficult to find sufficient cover for the men. I and the bomber +who was next to me in the line found a corner and there slept for the +night. We were once disturbed by the enemy destroying a trench mortar +store situated close to where we slept. Daybreak came and still there +was no word of 'zero.' We made some breakfast, and about half-past +five word was passed along that zero was 7.30, and to move into battle +positions. We moved to the right until we were in contact with the +next Company. At 6.25 a.m. the final bombardment commenced. Every gun +was firing 'gunfire' and the rush of metal overhead was extraordinary. +The reply was feeble. At 7.25 we left the trench and walked over to +within 60 yards of the barrage. At 7.30 the barrage lifted and we +rushed the front line defences, destroying the garrison, in and out of +dug-outs. I have few definite memories from the time we first saw the +Germans to the time the machine gun swept us down outside the Liepzig +Redoubt. It became evident that we, who were working up between two +communication trenches, after two or three rushes, that further +advancing was impossible without support. We waited for our own +reserve waves and the Lonsdales who should have come on behind. But no +reserves reached us and we saw our only hope lay in the fact that they +had rushed one of the communication trenches and might manage to bomb +out the machine gun. But the bombers were checked out of range of the +gun. We began to work towards the communication trench, but owing to +the lie of the ground we were badly exposed and I at length found +myself the only living occupant of that corner. About twelve o'clock I +managed to leap the parapet without being hit. I found my platoon +officer, Lieut. MacBrayne, lying shot through the head. Of the others +of my platoon I could get no news, except those I saw lying dead or +wounded. Tom Train had completely disappeared. An order came up the +trench, '17th H.L.I. move to the left and prepare to support the +Dorsets.' The communication trench was at this time chiefly manned by +K.O.Y.L.I. (who should have supported the 16th H.L.I. who had been +held up by the German wire and cut up before able to take the first +line of defences. Those left were forced to retire to their own line). +A few Lonsdales (the 11th Borderers had been cut up coming up through +'Blighty Wood,' Colonel and Adjutant killed and all officers +casualties) were able to give us practically no support, and a +Company of Manchesters, sent from Divisional Reserve. I moved to the +left. An officer suddenly jumped the parapet and shouted 'Come on, the +17th!' I followed him along with about twenty others. But we found the +barbed wire impossible to cut through and he gave us the order 'Every +man for himself.' + + [Illustration: VIEW FROM BOUZINCOURT LOOKING TOWARDS THE LINE. + (_Sketch from Lieut. Meadow's Diary_). + _To face page 44._] + +"Making my way back to the trench I rested in a shell hole occupied by +a Sergeant wounded in the leg. Whilst talking to him we both fell +asleep and slept until about 5 p.m., when the Germans counter-attacked. +Their artillery became violent and they attempted to come over the +open. We ran for the communication trench and found it disorganised. +Orders got mixed and some seemed anxious to retire. Fortunately the +17th H.L.I. bombers, who were in the advanced position, held their +ground, driving the enemy back with their own bombs, and the attack +over the open was checked by our brigade machine guns which had been +massed in the German front line. During the whole action we lost no +ground that had previously been gained. By this time our Battalion had +been badly hit. 'B' Company on our left had been caught in the wire and +cut to pieces by machine gun fire. My own Company, 'A,' was down to low +numbers. My Captain and my Platoon Officer were both killed, all the +platoon's N.C.O.s were killed or wounded, two Sergeants outright, and +all the L.-Corpls. dead. We had 17 officers killed and were working the +Battalion with two officers. The Colonel, who had been well forward all +day, was without a scratch. It was a remarkably clear day, very hot. We +were on the ridge that formed the defence on that side of Thiepval. +From here we could see the whole battlefield. I saw the huge eruption +at La Boisselle, when the six mines went up, and I remember watching +long lines of Highlanders charging along the opposite slope of the +valley. The aeroplanes followed every movement, flying low overhead and +directing the artillery by dropping flares. The Germans +counter-attacked in a half-hearted way through the night. We had +casualties from our own artillery and mortar batteries, otherwise the +night was quieter than we had expected. We managed to carry away a +number of our wounded in waterproof sheets. The battalions on both +flanks were unsuccessful in storming the enemy's front line defences, +thus our flanks were exposed and blockades had to be formed at the +front line and all lines forward to our advanced positions, which +developed into a series of bombing posts. Local fights went on at their +posts all through the day and night, and it was while chasing each +other round corners at the head of the communication trench in the +afternoon that we lost Sergeant Turnbull, V.C., who had done wonderful +work all day. The nature of the Leipzig defences, a maze of trenches +and underground saps, made advancing into the salient extremely hard. +One was continually attacked in the rear. What seemed dug-outs were +bombed, and when passed numbers of the enemy rush from them, they being +really underground communications with their rear defences. The whole +fighting was of a cold, deliberate, merciless nature. No quarter was +given or taken. One of the battalions opposing us was similar to our +own, a students' battalion from Bavaria. The enemy used explosive and +dum-dum bullets, and sniped off any of our wounded lying exposed in the +open. They were helped in their work by an arrangement we had come to +regarding wounded. It was not permitted to stop to take back prisoners +or to stop to dress a wounded chum; but it was permitted to stick the +bayonet of the wounded man's rifle in the ground and thus to mark the +spot where he lay. The Germans observed this and watched for any +movement in the heap beside the standing rifle. Men coolly fired at +each other at point blank range, and sniping became the chief cause of +casualties. It resembled a duel between two men who had had a deadly +quarrel--so intensely deliberate. On the morning of the 2nd of July we +handed over the front line of attack to Divisional Reserves and went +into support. At sunset we were relieved by the Cheshires, and moved +back to the dug-outs at Crucifix Corner. We had a number of casualties +coming out of action. We were given tea, food and rum, and went off +into a heavy sleep." + + + + +HULLUCH AND THEREABOUTS. + + _Senlis--last parade under Col. Morton--Bombing raid north of + Ovillers--Move to Bethune--1st Army Area--inspection by General + Munro--depleted ranks--trench warfare about Hulluch--Cambrin + Sector._ + + +In the sadness and stress of the first days after the Somme, there +came messages round to say the Battalion was saying "Good-bye" to its +Colonel. Worn out with fatigue he had been reluctantly persuaded by +the Brigadier and the doctors that if he wished to live and serve his +country more in the war he must retire from the dreadful strain of +command. In a field at Senlis, on the afternoon of 8th July, the +remnants of the Battalion, on their last parade under Colonel Morton, +were drawn up, silent and deeply moved. In a few words the Colonel +told the Battalion what he was going to do and all stood there with +their losses and their heartbreaks, hardly able to keep down the +tears. Addressing the men he congratulated them in warm and feeling +terms for their devotion while under his command and wished them well +in the uncertainties of the future. + +Colonel Morton had started them, trained them, and cared for them; +fought Brigade and authorities for them; led them and loved them--and +now they were to lose him. He said little, for much of a speech would +not come, but he knew their memories and he knew what they felt. Major +Paul, on behalf of the Battalion, expressed the profound regret of all +ranks in losing the guidance and leadership of Colonel Morton, who had +raised the 17th to such a high state of proficiency, and to wish him a +well merited rest and all happiness. Just these few words of +"Good-bye," then they cheered him and, with a lump in their throats +they were not ashamed of, they dismissed. All said good-bye in their +hearts and wished him God-speed. It is sad to part with a loved C.O. +who, too, feels the parting. + +Major Paul then took over command of the 17th and that evening once +more they moved into the trenches in support at Quarry Post, Authuille +Wood. + +On the 13th July a bombing party of about 100 men were ordered to +attack the German Line, north of Ovillers, linking up with the +Inniskillen Fusiliers, and this party at midnight under Captain +Ferguson, Lieuts. Herron and Kirk and Sergeant Stewart, in conjunction +with the Inniskillens and a party of Engineers, carried out the raid. + +The greatest credit was due to the initiative shown by Captain +Ferguson, in making excellent dispositions under very difficult +conditions. Owing to the strength of the German wire, a frontal attack +was impracticable, and after much thought, it was decided to attack +obliquely. The attack was most successful, a considerable number of +Germans being killed, while at least 16 were taken prisoners. The +objectives were all taken in a few minutes, but unfortunately the +raiders' losses were heavy. Captain Ferguson was mortally wounded, +eight other ranks were killed, and the other two officers and about 35 +other ranks were wounded. + +Writing of this incident, one of the Battalion officers says that +after the patrol had gone out those who were not taking part in it +heard the firing and the clamour of the small battle while they waited +eagerly for news of its progress. "News came in that the front was +safe, and proud of the efforts of our Battalion, we waited for their +return. The waiting was hard to bear, but the return sadder to +witness. They came back. On the right they had succeeded. On the left +they had died. A triumph and a disaster in one. On that small field +were left yet more of the (oh! so sadly few) gallant men of the +Seventeenth who, though exhausted and battle-worn, had in their own +true and fine spirit responded to the uttermost to the call for +gallant work. Later the body of Captain Ferguson was found right up to +the German lines grasping an empty revolver, far ahead in the charge +of even his gallant followers." + +For this action, the Battalion received thanks and congratulations +from the Corps and Division. A counter-attack drove the raiders out of +the captured trench; but the object of the raid--to create a diversion +from a major operation on the right--had been successfully +accomplished. + +This particular week, which was the last the Battalion saw of the +Somme fighting until later in the year, was one of the most strenuous +times which the unit had experienced. The available men for defensive +purposes were only too few and as new assembly trenches had to be dug +every night and all night, and also owing to the difficulties of +rationing and watering, the men were unable to get any rest. + +The Brigade commenced a move to Ampliers on 16th July, and on the road +the Battalion was met by Lieut.-General T.L.N. Moreland, commanding +the X Corps. He expressed to the Commanding Officer his appreciation +of the good work done by the Battalion while under his command, and +his deepest sympathy in their losses. On the 26th the Brigade moved +into Bethune and two days afterwards paraded in full marching order, +including "tin hats," on a sweltering afternoon, to be inspected by +General Munro, G.O.C., 1st Army. A very warm day. Owing to the calls +on an Army Commander's time, this inspection was considered to be a +great honour and a mark of appreciation by the authorities of the fine +spirit shown by the Division during the Somme battle. + +August saw the unit leave Bethune to take over the Cambrin right +sub-sector from the Northamptons, after putting in some fine shooting +on the old French Government Rifle Range at Labeauvriere. The strength +of the unit in the trenches apart from the officers, at the taking +over (August 5th) was 199--tragic testimony to the Somme. Immediately +on taking over the trenches they were subjected to trench mortar +bombardments and sniping raids. On 12th August Lieut. and Adjutant +Paterson became Captain and Adjutant, Major Paul became +Lieut.-Colonel, and 2nd Lieuts. Morrison and Marr, Captains. + +The following weeks of August, September and October were marked with +much moving about with various spells of that sort of uneventful +trench warfare which is perhaps in some respects more trying on the +nerves and strength of a unit than actual operations. On August 23rd +they were in the Hulluch Section. In this Section there was a good +deal of mining going on and there were two big craters which required +special watching, but the Battalion soon set to and trained in +grappling hook work to be ready for any kind of crater fighting that +might be demanded of them. On August 31st a move was made to Annequin +via Beuvry and Bethune, and ultimately by bus journey to the trenches +at Guinchy left sub-section, and in this area the unit remained during +September. On the 11th of the month a night raid was attempted, but +was frustrated owing to the Germans bombing the party as it was on the +point of entering their trenches. Unfortunately the two N.C.O.s who +fired the torpedo were missing, and it is presumed that they were +blown to bits by the explosion. + + [Illustration: COOKHOUSE AT BECOURT.] + + [Illustration: OBSERVATION POST, HULLUCH SECTOR.] + + [Illustration: WAR'S DESTRUCTION. + _To face page 50._] + + [Illustration: LIEUT.-COLONEL W.J. PAUL. + _To face page 51._] + +On October 4th the Battalion took over "Village Trench" in the Cambrin +Sector (Maison Rouge), taking over the front line from the 11th Border +Regiment. The next move saw the 17th leave Beuvry and proceeding to +Labeauvriere on October 16th; to Hardinval, on the 19th; to Rubempre, +on the 21st; to Bouzincourt, on the 23rd; back by Rubempre and on to +Canaples on the 31st via Talmas and Navurs. This treking was done in +weather that was oftener wet than dry, exceedingly cold at night, and +the living was under canvas. At Val-de-Maison on November 1st, the +unit moved to Vadencourt after a fortnight, and then into the +Martinsart Valley on the 15th, where they were ordered to go into +action at Beaumont-Hamel, for by this time several drafts had brought +up the strength of the Battalion. + + + + +BEAUMONT-HAMEL. + + _The attack--weather conditions--failure of artillery + support--forlorn hope--break-down of assault--gallantry and + sacrifice--casualties--Mailly-Maillet--Franqueville and + Rubempre--Xmas 1916 and New Year--football and high spirits._ + + +The attack which commenced at ten minutes past six on the morning on +November 18th--a day of ice-covered slushiness--was held up owing to +the insufficiency of the artillery barrage and the heavy enemy machine +gun fire. At 7.42 a.m. the message came in to the Battalion from the +right hand Company that the Company Commander was wounded and that a +Sergeant and about ten men were holding the right flank. The jumping +off trench known as New Munich Trench, was manned by the Battalion +machine gunners with a view to concentrating some of the Companies in +it back across "no man's land" to form a rallying point. At 8.30 a.m. +the following message was received from 2nd Lieut. Macbeth of the +right Company, "Am holding old front line with remainder of Battalion, +and have established a bombing post on the right. There are only +Lieut. Martin and myself in the trench." The left Company was also +being hard pressed. It was reported by one of the Battalion officers +that when the barrage opened a great number of shells fell just in +front of New Munich Trench where the attacking companies were lying +out, killing and wounding a large number of the Battalion. When the +barrage lifted on to Munich Trench for the last four minutes, it was +still short, and when the leading waves came up to about 50 or 60 +yards from Munich Trench followed by the barrage, the Germans could be +seen lying in the trench in force. When the barrage was on the Munich +Trench, the enemy machine guns played on the attackers from both +flanks all the time. The failure of the attack was due to the +inefficiency of the British supporting barrage, together with the +condition of the ground--thaw having set in and rain falling on the +snow, making it exceedingly slippery--the targets the men formed +against the snowy background, and the intense cold. + +Describing the attack one of the members of the Battalion writes:--"The +preliminary bombardment opened with its awful messages of destruction, +and the rapid reply of the enemy's artillery indicated ominously that +our intentions were not unknown to him. When our barrage lifted, and +the first wave of our men attempted to go forward, their dark forms +showed up against the snow. They were met by machine gun fire, by rapid +fire from the enemy trenches, and by snipers in skilfully chosen holes. +Our bombardment had failed. It was impossible to get to close quarters +with the enemy--hopeless to advance--dangerous to retire. Many of our +men were killed in the attack, others in the attempt to carry in the +wounded. Many remained all day in exposed positions, beside their +wounded comrades, in hope of rescuing them when darkness fell. Beaumont +Hamel will not be remembered by us as bearing any resemblance to the +official description. We look back upon it now, from the personal point +of view, as a touchstone of the individual soul, as a prominent +landmark in the vast monotony of death and horror--a chapter of +inspiring deeds. It represents to us the heroism of a forlorn hope, +the glory of unselfish sacrifice, the success of failure." 'Tis too +easy to despond "while the tired waves" visibly gain no "painful inch," +hard to believe that "far back through creeks and inlets making, comes +silent, flooding in, the main." + +On the 19th the Battalion was relieved and returned to Mailly-Maillet +where billets were taken over, and when the 17th rested and licked its +wounds--well over 300 of "Glasgow's Own" had either been killed or +wounded in that day's fighting. On the 21st of November General Gough, +G.O.C. Fifth Army, inspected and congratulated the Battalion, and +spoke to many of the N.C.O.s and men individually. During December the +unit carried on training at Franqueville and Rubempre, and that the +spirit of the men was not broken by the severity of their recent +experiences is shown by the number of football matches played during +the period. On Christmas Day, 1916, the officers beat the sergeants at +Rugby by 11 points to 0; in the afternoon "B" Company beat +Headquarters at Association by 4 goals to 0; and in the evening the +Battalion held a cheery concert. The Christmas Dinners were reserved +for the 30th, and on Hogmanay the New Year was welcomed with a +concert. General Gough attended Battalion Church Parade on the first +Sunday of the New Year. + + + + +THE NEW YEAR, 1917. + + _Bad weather--Courcelles--trench labours--varied + moves--beginning of Spring Offensive--attack by the French--the + advance--Nesle--condition of inhabitants--great digging work at + Germaine._ + + +The opening months of the New Year were months of battling not only +against a human enemy, but against the elements and the bad conditions +which they created. The winter of 1916 had been a severe one, and in +passing into 1917 it continued its course with unabated severity. The +Battalion left Rubempre on January 6th and partly by motor lorry and +partly in column of route proceeded to Courcelles where, on the +following day, they relieved the troops of the 3rd Division in the +trenches opposite Serre. The weather was bad, the enemy kept up brisk +attentions and the trenches were the worst which the Battalion had +ever been in. Most of them were absolutely impassable, being full of +water to a height of five feet, with the result that reliefs had for +the most part to be made outside the trenches. Owing to this condition +of matters, strict orders were issued for the prevention of "trench +feet," but notwithstanding every precaution, several cases occurred. + +Heavy and continuous work was put in mending and bettering the +trenches, training the drafts which were arriving, performing tactical +exercises and battalion routine affairs. By this time several +ceremonies had taken place at which decorations were bestowed upon +N.C.O.s and men for bravery in the Field and gallantry in action. +Esprit de corps was stronger than ever, and the tediousness of trench +labours was relieved by the establishment of special strong posts, by +minor raids on the Bosche, and when out of the line by football and +such recreations as the circumstances permitted. This type of +campaigning was experienced during January and February at Courcelles, +Beaumont Hamel, Lyntham Camp, Mailly-Maillet, Bolton Camp, +Molliens-au-Bois (where on February 19th, 1917, Major F.R.F. Sworder, +Gordon Highlanders, assumed temporary command--Colonel Paul, after +being in hospital in France, having been sent to England where he was +appointed to a home unit), Camon, Wiencourt, Le Quesnel. And in March, +the approach of spring seemed to bring with it nothing but additional +storms of rain and snow, and the names of such points in the line as +Key Post and Kuropatkin will bring back memories of buttressing up +collapsed trenches and mending wire entanglements. + +But the opening of the 1917 Spring Offensive soon gave a great fillip +to activities. The French attacked on March 16th and the 96th Brigade +attacked with it. The enemy was forced back so rapidly that by 2 +o'clock on the day following the Allied artillery was out of range, +and the day after that again saw the whole Battalion hard at it +clearing wire from the road running through the enemy's old front +system, and setting out on the march, complete with transport, at 5 in +the morning. Arriving at Nesle on March 19th, the troops were given a +tremendous welcome by the French populace. It was discovered there +that the people were literally starving, because the Germans had +taken their rations for some days previously. A dam on the Somme burst +its banks and no advance was possible until this was repaired and new +roads made across the floods, but it was only a few days until once +more the troops were pushing on and the Commanding Officer and Company +Commanders of the 17th were making a reconnaissance of the new main +position at Germaine. The digging at Germaine on March 28th was one of +the heaviest day's work ever done by the Battalion. The job commenced +at night, after an 18 mile march in rain and finished in snow. The +digging was covered by the 16th H.L.I., who held the outpost line. The +newly dug trenches were shelled on the following forenoon. + + + + +ON THE HEELS OF THE ENEMY. + + _The taking of Savy--casualties--patrolling--capture of + Fayet--congratulatory messages--strenuous + days--Canizy--competitions with the French--work and + sport--Hangard--leaving the Fourth Army--Farewell message from + General Rawlinson._ + + +The Battalion moved off from Germaine at midnight on April 1st, 1917, +and proceeded by Companies at 200 yard intervals cross country to +Fluquieres. Arriving there they passed through the village, a pile of +smouldering ruins, and on the main St. Quentin road and about half a +mile along it they reached Roupy with its destroyed cross-roads and +proceeded towards a point near Savy where the Battalion deployed, and +attacking at 5 a.m. moved forward, overcame the opposition and took +Savy. In the village the Bosche put up a desperate stand and some +fierce fighting took place before they were pushed beyond the railway +bank north of the village. Most of the fighting took place in the +neighbourhood of an orchard at the southern end of the village, and +here the 11th Border Regiment joined forces in helping to drive out +the stubborn enemy. Once through the village serious destruction was +caused by heavy machine gun fire from an enemy strong point in a mine +crater. With the aid of two Lewis guns, the crater was soon in the +hands of the 17th and a heavy fire directed on the retreating enemy. +Thereafter the Battalion started to dig in (about 6.30 a.m.), and soon +consolidated their gains, although subject to strong artillery, +machine gun and sniping fire. In the afternoon a further attack was +made by the 96th Brigade, and before evening Bois-de-Savy was in their +hands. The Battalion was relieved in the evening and moved off to take +up quarters in dug-outs on the Fluquieres-Douchy Road, but the place +had been so badly knocked about that a large portion of the unit +bivouacked. + +The total casualties in this day's fighting was 103, 31 of whom were +killed. During the following week the Battalion suffered from the +severe winter conditions, coupled with incessant shelling and had much +to do strengthening their positions. On the 9th some magnificent +patrolling was done, for which the Battalion was deservedly +congratulated. In the afternoon of that day four patrols set out to +gain information of Fayet and the ground between Francilly and St. +Quentin. One patrol went to the ridge overlooking St. Quentin, one +went into a German trench near Fayet, one went within 300 yards of +Fayet, and the fourth reconnoitred the southern approaches of the +village--and much valuable information was accordingly gained. + +On the 12th April, Major Lumsden, V.C., D.S.O., who was in temporary +command of the Battalion, relinquished that post, to take up duty as +Brigadier-General of the 14th Infantry Brigade--which this very +distinguished officer commanded until he was killed--and Captain +Morton assumed command of the Battalion, with Captain Paterson, M.C., +as second in command. + +While at Holnon on the 13th, "C" and "D" Companies were sent forward +in support of the 2nd K.O.Y.L.I., who were attacking Fayet. This +attack was carried out in conjunction with one being made by the +French, who were endeavouring to take St. Quentin. "B" Company joined +the others in the front line, and later the Battalion took over a +sector of the front line. After consolidating here, congratulatory +messages were received from Brigadier-General Blacklock, General Shute +and General Rawlinson. + +The road from Nesle to St. Quentin is a long and cruel one, but in +these early days of 1917, it was to the 17th H.L.I. the pathway to +glory. They were sweeping onwards in the track of the retreating +enemy, with the glow of victory to strengthen their hearts and the +blessings of a delivered people in their ears. The echoing trumpets of +romance called to them from the Cathedral City, and their blood +stirred to the call. These were the impressions that led them, in +common with the rest of the Division, to surmount appalling obstacles, +natural and devilish. They soaked in the snow, and froze in the keen +blast; they starved and toiled on the way, but "stuck it," and their +reward was the fall of Savy village. There was fighting all along the +50 mile front just then, and Savy did not loom very large in the +chronicles of the time, but those who took part in its capture, and in +the taking of the wood a mile beyond, knew that they had achieved the +heroic. There was no resting; Francilly and Holnon were the next to +fall, and the men were within sight of the spires of St. Quentin. They +lived for some days in earth holes, and the weather flayed them +unmercifully. Then one dark morning, the 13th of April, they assembled +silently and lay down in the field, whilst dawn broke with singing of +birds, and the shriek and whistle of the barrage. The Division was +attacking Fayet, the enemy's last stronghold beyond the city. Before +they went over, grey and green coated figures were being brought down. +There were many other grey and green figures grotesquely contorted in +the brown ribbed fields, and those of them who had escaped from the +inferno fought it out intermittently, in the woods beyond the village. +But their sniping was braved for a few days more, and then one night +they staggered weakly back through nightmare villages to Germaine for +rest. + +After resting at Germaine the Battalion set off on the 19th for Canizy +which was reached by evening. They found this village emptied of the +native populace and saw that the Germans had been carrying out their +usual work of destruction in the same wanton and deliberate scale as +in nearly every village in the regained area. A more cheerful memory +of this devastated village is that while here the Battalion got its +new bugle band. While stationed there the Battalion marched over to +Ham where a football match was to be played. Their march into the +town caused great interest, and they passed through a long line of +French soldiers and civilians who lined the roads. On their approach +along the main street, the square seemed totally blocked with a mass +of French soldiers, and a company of infantry stood at the "present" +as a Guard of Honour as they marched past the Town Hall, while the +French band rendered our National Anthem. After the Battalion team had +won their match by 6 goals to 1 against the 121st Infantry Regiment +and a scratch team had played a drawn game against the 408th Regiment, +the French band played the men out of the village. But the French were +not allowed to have all their own way of it with the music, for the +Battalion Pipe Band played to them and was received with much favour. + +The regiment was in highest spirits, battle scarred and with a +glorious record of great achievements established. The Battalion +remained at rest in the village of Canizy until May 15th--that is, +they trained hard and played hard, went marches and were inspected, +performed innumerable fatigues and parades and carried out generally +that never ending programme of activities which always makes a soldier +smile at the mention of the word "rest!" The men played some of their +keenest and most memorable games of soccer here, and one of the +principle pastimes engaged in by the officers was hunting, until this +was forbidden by G.H.Q. The country, being entirely uncultivated made +ideal going. Major Campbell, in charge of Physical Training, G.H.Q., +was with the 17th for some time, and put extra life into sport and +training. + +On the 15th the Battalion moved off to Curchy, via Voyennes and Nesle, +and on the succeeding day to Rosieres and so on to Hangard on the +18th, where the "resting" was carried on until the end of the month, +when they proceeded to Villers-Bretonneux. Of the villages in the +regained area little or no description in the normal sense is possible +beyond the fact that while some semblance of streets could be traced +in some of them, the majority of them were simply masses of masonry +debris literally peppered with shell craters. But it was noticeable in +such villages as Nesle that the civilians showed a very marked +physical improvement as the result of better feeding and life under +British occupation. While at Hangard, Battalion Headquarters occupied +Hangard Chateau--one of the finest chateaux in France. (It was +demolished during the 1918 German offensive.) The Brigade concentrated +at Villers-Bretonneux prior to entraining for the Second Army. + +But before leaving the Fourth Army, to which the 17th had given such +brilliant service, the following message was transmitted to the +Battalion as one of the Divisional units concerned:-- + + "FOURTH ARMY, NO. G.S.702. + + "32ND DIVISION. + + "As the Division will shortly be leaving the Fourth Army I + desire to express to all ranks my warm thanks for the excellent + services they have performed whilst under my command. The + gallantry and dash displayed by the Division during the advance + in March and April, especially in the actions resulting in the + capture of Savy, Bois de Savy, Francilly, Holnon, Selency, Fayet + and Cepy Farm, reflect the highest credit on all concerned. + + "The skilful leadership of all ranks, coupled with the close + co-operation between Artillery, Infantry and Aircraft, was a + feature in these operations deserving the highest praise, and I + heartily congratulate the Division on the successes they have + achieved. + + "I much regret that the Division is now leaving the Fourth Army, + but I shall hope that at some future date I may again have the + good fortune to find them under my command. + + "(Signed) H. RAWLINSON, _General, + Commanding Fourth Army._ + + "H.Q., FOURTH ARMY, + "_22nd May, 1917._" + + + + +IN FLANDERS. + + _En route to Steenbecque--R.T.O.--the 14th Corps--reconnaissance + of Messines Sector--heavy marches--Coxyde and Kuhn--amenities of + Nieuport area._ + + +The Battalion on 1st June, 1917, left the Fourth Army and the Somme +area. The 17th never again served in that area though it served again +with the Fourth Army on the sea coast. Entraining at Villers-Bretonneux +the unit journeyed to Amiens and by way of Abbeville, Etaples, +Boulogne, Calais, St. Omer, Hazebrouck to Steenbecque. + +Owing to a mistake of the Railway Transport Officer an incident, +upsetting but not without its amusing side, occurred at Abbeville, +where the train moved off without warning while the Battalion was +parading in the station for tea, with only 100 all ranks on board. The +train calmly continued its journey and in due course arrived at +Steenbecque, the men who were left following on in the overcrowded +trucks of the 2nd Manchesters. Leaving the train at Hazebrouck, the +stranded party marched to Steenbecque, their appearance, owing to +deficiencies of equipment and in some cases even of uniform, causing +much interested amusement. At the latter station the first party were +picked up, packs and equipment donned, and then, in the afternoon the +Battalion accomplished a very interesting, though long and heavy march +to a small hamlet in the Donlieu area, where they billeted for ten +days or so. + +The 32nd Division came into the 14th Corps, commanded by the Earl of +Cavan, in G.H.Q. Reserve. The 14th Corps was composed of the Guards +Division, 1st, 8th and 32nd Divisions. + +On 5th June the Commanding Officer, with his officers and N.C.O.s +reconnoitred the Messines Sector with a view to supporting the attack +to be carried out on the Messines-Wytschaete Ridge by the Second Army. +The 17th at Donlieu "stood to" ready to move off in support of this +offensive, though happily the success of the attack did not +necessitate the Battalion being called on. Major Inglis of the 1st +H.L.I.--who had been cross-posted to the 2nd Manchesters, which +Battalion he commanded until re-posted to command the 17th H.L.I. on +the 20th of July--joined the Battalion on the 8th of June. + + [Illustration: Lt.-Col. J. INGLIS, C.M.G., D.S.O. + _To face page 60._] + +Donlieu was left on 14th June and the Battalion went in column of +route to Steenvoorde, in which area they were billeted. This was one +of the most trying marches they had experienced, and a large number of +men fell out. In 6 hours the unit had covered 24 kilometres which, in +full marching order, was a most difficult and wearisome performance. +On the 16th the Battalion embussed outside Steenvoorde, and after +leaving the charabancs at Petite Synthe, they marched to billets at +Mardyck. Hereabouts was pleasant country with excellent sea bathing. +Petite Synthe was left on the 19th for Dunkirk where they entrained +and proceeded east along the sand dunes to Coxyde and, on the +following day, into the coastal camp of Kuhn. Coxyde and Kuhn were +French built camps and very good, with vegetable gardens attached to +them. + +Until 10th July the Battalion stayed in this vicinity, and despite +spells of shelling, trench mortar and aerial bombardments, +considerable patrolling and wiring work, the stay on the sand dunes +about Nieuport was heaven after the endless mud and horror of the +winter on the Somme. The very mention of Nieuport to a man who was +there in the first week of July, 1917, makes a marked impression on +his countenance. Since detraining at Coxyde on 20th June, things had +been comparatively quiet and the weather ideal. Working parties were +supplied for the roads during the day and smaller parties were engaged +on the breastworks in the front line at night. The quietness was +absolutely awful. But the presence of civilians in Oost Dunkirk and +Les Bains gave an air of security and quietude to the place which was +very soothing to the heart of the soldier. It is true that aerial +activity was disquieting at times, but several successful attacks on +the "Vultures of the Kaiser" made these items of interest, rather than +causes of alarm. The Germans seemed to pay greater attention to +something well on the left of the Battalion and towards the sea, than +to anything that concerned them particularly. The appearance of the +roads from Oost Dunkirk to Nieuport was most assuring and their great +beauty and undisturbed tranquillity were all that could be desired. + +A large amount of work was attempted during this period on the Brigade +Front, in order to obtain sufficient cover for protection against +retaliation after our artillery bombardments began, prior to an +intended attack on the sea-coast by the 4th Army, in conjunction with +the 5th and 2nd Armies from Ypres. The enemy, before our artillery +came in, greatly increased his artillery force, and daily destroyed +any work done by night. These destructive shoots were afterwards found +to be part of his barrage programme for the attack on the 10th July. + + + + +OPERATIONS ON THE COAST. + + _Enemy hurricane bombardment--enemy attempt frustrated--attack + abandoned--visit to H.L.I.--sports--visit of Dr. Kelman--patrol + work by Corpl. Wilson--listening post raided--departure for + Adinkerke._ + + +The Battalion continued to carry out its duties on the Belgian Coast +until relieved from that Sector on October 5th, 1917. In the previous +chapter some idea of the general conditions has been given. And the +period which followed was of somewhat like nature with intermittent +outstanding excursions and alarms and with memorable pleasant episodes +to intermix with those more combative, and in this chapter the +outstanding features will be recorded without following the movements +of the Battalion to the various points in this sand-dune sector. + +The comparatively routine behaviour of the daily aerial and artillery +"strafe" broke into a brisk and heavy bombardment on the Division to +the left on the night of July 9th, but on the 10th about five o'clock +in the morning this heavy fire switched on to the trenches from the +border of the sea to Nieuport. The bombardment crashed on to all +lines, firing, reserve, and rear. It got heavier and heavier and soon +reached an unprecedented violence and extended to the flanking +Divisions as well. The British guns replied, but could not force the +hostile fire to slacken, and in the evening the enemy came on in +attack. They carried the trenches of the units on the left and +patrols were put out and the flank strengthened. This was the +severest bombardment the Battalion had ever been in. It was a +hurricane onslaught. The 17th knew that sort. They had been through +it. Positions were taken and held, where no trench afforded cover, and +where breastworks were blown away. + +The 17th were ordered to send three Companies in support of the Border +Regiment who were being hard pressed east of the Yser. "A," "B" and +"C" Companies were despatched on this mission. These Companies +experienced very stiff fighting throughout the night of the 10-11th, +until relieved early in the morning of the 11th by the Northumberland +Fusiliers. + +On the following day the bombardment slackened a little, though during +the night hurricane fire broke out, and over the period of this attack +the Hun used a very large number of tear gas shells--which at that +time was a new horror introduced to the sufferings of the British +armies. Who will forget the Redans, Le Grand and Le Petit, the Bridges +Putney and Pelican? The last named was renewed or rebuilt on the +average three times every twenty-four hours. No words can describe +what took place between the 10th and 13th of that awful month. The +Germans, expecting an attack, made one. After these terrible three +days, the Battalion, whose luck it was on this occasion to be spared +the brunt of the action, after being relieved by the Borderers, +struggled back through a mixed barrage of shells of all calibres, +sprinkled with those of gas. There was a fog of gas and dust for miles +behind the lines. + +The enemy attempt had broken down; the Battalion returned to Ghyvelde +of pleasant recollection, and on the 13th the Division was +congratulated on its successful efforts. + +On July 20th Major J. Inglis joined the Battalion and took over +command at Bray Dunes Plage. On the 23rd the Brigade was inspected by +the Divisional General, Major-General Shute. After his inspection he +gave an address congratulating the Brigade on its part against the +enemy attack on the 10th inst. at Nieuport, and on the same day the +Corps Commander also inspected the Brigade, complimenting the men on +their clean and smart appearance, and paying a high tribute to their +fighting qualities. + +August opened with the prospect of making an attack on the enemy and +exercises were practised accordingly. On 6th August a Battalion +reconnaissance was made which included reporting on all tracks to the +front line, arranging an assembling position in "no man's land," and +learning the condition of the existing wire in front of both our own +and the enemy's line. The weather for some little time had been very +wet, the night selected for the reconnaissance was very bright and +none too suitable, and the condition of the ground was extremely +muddy, making movement slow and difficult. After examining the whole +situation it was recognised that any possibility of successfully +attacking upon this position was out of the question. Indeed, the bad +weather throughout August delayed whatever action had been +contemplated by either side. + +The 9th H.L.I. (The Glasgow Highlanders) were lying at Ghyvelde, and +on 11th August, the 17th paid them a visit, while the Battalion +football teams played a match. Another convivial day was spent on the +24th when the Battalion sports were held. The day cleared up to one of +bright sunshine, and a large number of spectators enjoyed the sport. +The events were continued on the following day when even a larger +number of guests and spectators attended, including many Colonial +soldiers, and the various events were keenly contested, both by the +men of the home Battalion and those from others in the area. A good +turn out of British and Belgian nurses from La Panne Hospital +brightened the gathering, and at the conclusion of the sports the +prizes were presented by two of the lady guests. On the Saturday +following Brigade Sports were held under ideal conditions, the +Battalion representatives winning numerous prizes. + +At Church Parade on the 26th, the Presbyterian Service was conducted +in camp by the Rev. Dr. Kelman, of Free St. George's, Edinburgh, who +delivered a very impressive address which was listened to with the +closest attention by the men. Dr. Kelman then left to preach to +another Battalion and the 17th prepared to go back to the line. + +The Battalion kept up its old record of keen patrolling, and during +their front line spell at the beginning of September some +reconnaissance work was well carried out under conditions unusually +difficult. On the night of 3rd September, 1917, 2nd Lieut. Forbes and +Corpl. J. Wilson of "C" Company waded across a swamped portion which +lay between the Battalion positions and a point known as Roode Poorte +Farm. Coming to a point where the water was too deep for wading, +Corpl. Wilson swam across and on reaching ground crawled in the +direction of the enemy lines. Finding this line of approach of no use +for operations, he swam back to the point where the patrol was +covering his movements, and selecting another point, swam across the +canal which lay to the east, opposite the farm buildings, and carried +out his reconnaissance. + +On the 8th, while at Wulpen, a gas attack was successfully carried +through on to the enemy's lines, and on the 13th, the third +anniversary of the forming of the Battalion was spent in the trenches. +A telegram congratulating the Battalion on its anniversary was +received from the Brigadier, and a reply sent reciprocating the +General's good wishes. + +The enemy perpetrated a novel surprise raid, which had some of the +elements of picture-house humour in it, on one of the Battalion +advanced Listening Posts, and by their new device gained temporary +footing in it. A strong stream of water, apparently from a hose was +directed suddenly upon the men in the Listening Post from the enemy +position. While the men were baffled and blinded by the rush of water, +the post was bombed and the two listeners retired on the main post for +support. Immediately a counter-attack was organised and led by Company +Sergeant-Major Miller of "A" Company, and the post was re-established. + +Orders were received on October 5th, 1917, for the relief of the 97th +Infantry Brigade by the 125th Infantry Brigade. The Battalion +accordingly withdrew to Coxyde that night, and on the following +morning left for Adinkerke on the way to fresh fields and battles +new. + + + + +THE YPRES SALIENT. + + _Passchendaele--gallantry of attack--casualties--Hilltop + Farm--move to Landethun and Yeuse--Serre Sector--close of 1917._ + + +At Adinkerke, on their way to the Ypres Salient, the men were embarked +on barges on October 6th, 1917, and journeyed by canal to near +Rosendael where they billeted and where Lieut. Colonel J. Inglis +rejoined the Battalion from leave and resumed command. They then +underwent intensive training at Uxem until the 24th, when they left en +route for the Eringham area in accordance with the forward move of the +Brigade Group. The next day saw them at Rubrouck and on the next again +they arrived at Broxcele where training was again entered upon and +continued until November 9th. + +About this period Lieut. Colonel Inglis and the Adjutant, Captain F.E. +Dunsmuir, were away from the Battalion making a preliminary tour of +inspection of the line on the Ypres front. + +On the 10th, the Battalion was once more in column of route on their +way to Wormhoudt, and on the following day, to Watou to "Road Camp" in +the St. Jan Ter Biezen area, where training was resumed, and this time +once more within sound of the rumble of the guns. But that didn't +upset the H.L.I., whose 16th and 17th Battalions met in the final of +the Brigade Football Tournament, which was won in easy style, 5 goals +to nil, by the Chamber of Commerce boys. Four days later they defeated +the 32nd Divisional Supply Column in the semi-final of the Divisional +Tournament, and then two days after that, meeting the 2nd Royal +Inniskillen Fusiliers in the final, the 17th H.L.I. carried off the +Championship, repeating their performance of the previous year against +the same finalists. + +On the following day the Divisional Commander addressed the Brigade, +which was drawn up on the football field, and reminded the men of the +sterner duties that now lay before them, and expressed the hope that +they would maintain the honourable traditions associated with the name +of the 97th Infantry Brigade--which, indeed, they more than +maintained. + +The Battalion left the camp on November 22nd for Poperinghe where they +entrained to continue the journey up the line, and arriving at St. +Jean Station, detrained and marched to "Irish Camp." + +On the afternoon of the 23rd a start was made for the Passchendaele +front line system, the route taken by the Battalion being for the +greater part over the duck board walks "Mouse Trap Track," which +covered ground won in the recent big push at Passchendaele. The +take-over was not completed without casualties, but these were +comparatively few considering the dangerous nature of the going, which +was in the open over shell-pitted ground. The Battalion relieved by +the 17th was the 1st Northamptonshire Battalion. During the night the +17th captured its first prisoner in this area--a corporal of the 315th +Regiment. According to his statement he had been out on patrol when he +lost one of his boots in the mud and in trying to find it he had +strayed into our lines and been taken. During their initial tour of +the Passchendaele system much heavy work was done in converting the +shell-hole defence line into trenches, and patrolling. Several +casualties were reported each day and the mud was thick and sticky. On +the 26th the Battalion was relieved and proceeded to Dambre Camp in +the Vlamertinghe area where everybody rested and completed the +preparations for the forthcoming offensive at Passchendaele. + +It may be said at the outset that the element of surprise intended in +the Passchendaele attack failed entirely, as the enemy were aware of +the British intentions and fully prepared. In addition, the fact that +the artillery barrage proper did not open until zero plus eight +minutes, allowed the enemy entire freedom of action in his front posts +with rifles and machine guns. + +The Battalion moved into the line on the evening of December 1st in +conjunction with the other Battalions of the Brigade--2nd K.O.Y.L.I.; +16th H.L.I.; 11th Border Regiment; and the 15th Lancashire Fusiliers +(attached). The 16th Northumberland Fusiliers of the 96th Infantry +Brigade were attached to the 97th Infantry Brigade as counter-attacking +troops to be used in the event of a strong hostile counter-attack on +the Brigade front. The frontage taken over by the Brigade was one of +1,850 yards approximately along the Passchendaele Ridge. There were +two objectives to be taken, of which sections were detailed as the job +of the 17th--a slice which included two formidable "pill-boxes" known +as the "Vat and Veal Cottages." + +The Battalion assembled on a frontage of 400 yards and at Zero Hour +(1.55 a.m.) moved forward to the attack. Companies deployed from a two +platoon frontage in snake formation--this method having been adopted +owing to the shell torn nature of the ground--and advanced in four +waves. "A" and "B" Companies were to capture the first objective, +mopping up all occupied points in the way, including the two pill +boxes, while "C" and "D" were to "leap-frog" through them, carry the +next objective and consolidate. + +The initial stages of the attack were successfully carried through, +but the enemy--as was afterwards learned--knowing of what was on foot, +waited in readiness. Suddenly he opened heavy machine gun fire upon +the advancing Companies, inflicting heavy casualties which, in the +dark and over the difficult ground, had the effect of splitting up the +sections and creating some confusion. The officers and men of the +Battalion gallantly pressed on against these odds, however, and +succeeded in reaching their objective; but the enemy machine gun and +rifle fire became so intense that their advanced positions were +rendered humanly untenable. Our men, though forced to retire in +places, established themselves in shell-hole posts, where an attempt +was made to consolidate. + +The artillery and machine gun barrage, though intense, had failed, +owing to the enemy's fore-knowledge of the attack, to effect its +purpose. His strong points were heavily garrisoned and wired and he +was also found to be established in strong lines of trenches also +effectively wired. The Battalion hung on all through that awful night +in its isolated positions, for orders were received that the attack +would be renewed in the morning, but these orders were afterwards +cancelled. + +From dawn onwards artillery fire slackened somewhat, but the enemy +machine gunners and snipers kept up harassing fire from their well +established posts against the men in their exposed and isolated posts. + +It was obvious that a hostile counter-attack might be expected, and +this took place about 4 p.m. on the afternoon of the 2nd, preceded +by an intense artillery barrage. Owing to the terrible difficulties of +their position, and the sweeping casualties inflicted, the line was +forced back, but the actual enemy attack which followed his barrage +was met by the rifle fire of the shattered 17th, and after the Bosches +had approached within a certain distance of the posts, they broke and +turned back in retreat. + + [Illustration: TYPES OF SUPPORT LINE DUG-OUTS AND FIRST AID POST. + _To face page 68._] + +Though the withdrawal of the Divisional line had been almost general, +some of the Battalion posts were still hanging on to the advanced +positions on the 3rd. Many wounded were lying out, suffering the most +appalling rigours of war and the Battalion stretcher-bearers displayed +great devotion to duty in ignoring the heavy fire while bringing them +in to comparative shelter. The work at first was extremely dangerous, +but later on in the day a lull occurred when it was possible to carry +on this labour of mercy under less trying conditions. And it must be +recorded, as far as this battle is concerned, that from this point +onward the German reversed his frequent policy and shewed respect for +the Red Cross Flag, only one instance of sniping taking place when one +of the Battalion stretcher-bearers was shot dead while bending over a +wounded comrade. Enemy stretcher-bearers were also at work and in some +instances they reciprocated attentions given to their wounded, by +dressing and carrying our casualties. In this way all the wounded were +got in before the Brigade was relieved that night. The Battalion +frontage was taken over by the 5/6th Royal Scots. The relief was +successfully completed and the remnants of the Battalion reached +"Hilltop Farm" in the early morning, entraining later for Hospital +Camp in the Vlamertinghe area. The casualties were particularly heavy +among Officers and N.C.O.s, and gives trenchant evidence of their +self-sacrificing gallantry in seeking by utter disregard for danger to +turn a forlorn hope into victory, and by personal example and +incentive to make still richer the honourable traditions of the 17th +in the face of such overwhelming odds, and amidst such overaweing +devastation. In this action seven officers were killed and five +wounded. Of other ranks 41 were killed, 130 wounded and 13 missing. + +The Battalion was organised as far as possible in its depleted +condition and work and training carried on until December 10th, when +once more the unit moved up the line to Hilltop Farm, N.E. of Ypres. +During their stay here, Mr. Fred A. Farrell, the well-known Scottish +artist, visited the 17th on a commission from the Corporation of +Glasgow to execute drawings of the Glasgow Battalions and the places +in which they were operating. + +On December 13th they were back in the trenches. Hard winter weather +had now set in, with fog, frost and water sogged ground. On the 20th +the Battalion was relieved and, as far as weather is concerned, spent +a typical Christmas Day when it came round, in Dambre Camp. Being in +Corps Reserve, nothing in the nature of Christmas festivities could be +permitted, but the gifts supplied by the Chamber of Commerce provided +seasonable fare and brought a measure of good cheer. + +After a series of alarms and stand-to's, a Divisional Relief was +carried through, and on December 30th the Battalion trained to +Audruicq and set out on an arduous route march for the villages of +Landrethun and Yeuse, where the men were happily enabled to spend a +night's rest in comfortable billets, "A," "B," "C," and Headquarters +in the former village, and "D" in the latter. + +The last day of the year which had probably been the hardest and, as +far as campaigning is concerned, the most eventful in the history of +the Battalion, was passed amidst the peaceful surroundings of these +villages untouched by war. The beginning of the year had seen the +Battalion in the line in the Serre Sector, then had followed the +memorable days of Beaumont Hamel, Honoroye, the battle of Savy and the +taking of Fayet in the St. Quentin area, a well deserved period of +rest at Canizy and thence by train and road into Belgium, being held +in reserve for the Battle of Messines, three hard months spent in the +line in the Nieuport Sector and the St. George's Sector, and then +after a spell of rest--forward into Passchendaele. + + + + +THE DISBANDMENT. + + _Hogmanay--with the II. Corps--the blow--new army + establishment--Hospital Camp--disbandment--the passing of the + "17th."_ + + +For some time rumours had been flitting about that certain Battalions +were going to be disbanded in accordance with a programme of +reorganised military establishments. Every New Army unit in the B.E.F. +had about this time qualms of fear that if rumours proved true the +selection might fall on them. Esprit de corps was never stronger and +the very thought of possible separations from brothers-in-arms, fell +as a vague shadowy fear over the 17th because it looked very likely +that the 17th, being the junior H.L.I. Battalion of the Division, +would be the Divisional victim in any re-arrangement that might be +carried out. But nothing definite was known, and the advent of New +Year, 1918, brought with it a feeling of hope for the future. + +The Battalion was still billeted in the peaceful villages of +Landrethun and Yeuse. On the opening day of the year the ground was +snow covered, rendering parades well nigh impossible, and so the men +were at liberty. Preparations were eagerly pushed forward for a New +Year Feast, and on the 3rd, in spite of provisioning difficulties, +very complete arrangements had been successfully made considering the +length of time available for providing the men with a seasonable +repast on that evening. The Companies sat down to a feast of roast +pork--which only a few hours before had been a live pig. There was +soup, haggis, plum pudding, apple dumpling, cake, cigarettes, and +copious supplies of beer. The Commanding Officer, accompanied by Major +G.R.S. Paterson, and the Adjutant, visited each Company in turn to +wish them the Compliments of the Season, and the night finished with +song and story. + +Work and training was resumed again in earnest the next day as far as +the weather conditions would permit. On the 9th of January the +Battalion moved off, embussing for the forward area to operate on the +II. Corps Line. After a cold journey in a heavy snowstorm, they +arrived at Murat Camp late at night and came under the command of the +35th Division. They found the camp in very bad order and set about +putting it right, meanwhile working parties were carrying on under the +C.R.E. of the Division. Splendid work was carried out by the Battalion +during this period, despite snowstorms and blizzards, and high praise +was given to the unit by the Corps Commander. All the Royal Engineer +Officers connected with the work declared they had never had better +nor keener infantry parties. + +On the 16th Major Morton assumed command of the Battalion during the +absence of Lieut.-Colonel Inglis on leave; and on the 18th Major +Morton was ordered to hospital and Major Paterson took over. + +_The Battalion Intelligence News Sheet_, inaugurated to keep all ranks +fully informed of the principal events of the day as regards the war, +was circulated, but it could not hope to oust _The Outpost_ as the +real news vehicle of the 17th. + +On the 25th of January the Battalion left Murat Camp for a camp near +Woeston and came under the command of the 1st Division, and on the +27th the Battalion relieved the 10th Gloucesters in reserve in the Het +Sas Sector, and carried on improving the line until the 31st of +January--when the blow fell and hopes were dashed to the ground. While +in Brigade Support at Houthust Forest Sector, Major Paterson was sent +for by Brigadier-General C.A. Blacklock, who informed him that the +re-organisation of the Army necessitated the disbanding of an H.L.I. +Battalion in the 32nd Division. The Battalion selected was the junior +one, the 17th. General Blacklock expressed in very generous terms his +admiration for the Battalion, and for all that it had done, and +expressed his sorrow and regret that so fine a unit had to be broken +up, and the officers, non-com. officers and men serving in it would be +drafted to other H.L.I. Battalions, which would necessitate, in many +cases, the breaking up of what had been very long friendships. + +Early in January, 1918, it had been decided by the War Office to adopt +the three Battalion per Brigade system throughout the British Army, +and this resulted in the disbandment of many Battalions which had seen +much service abroad, and had won a name for themselves in France. +Perhaps the chief Battalion in the whole army to be disbanded was the +17th Service Battalion of the Highland Light Infantry, and the +disbandment of this Battalion came as a bitter blow, not only to those +who were serving in the Battalion at that time, but also to those who +had served in it at some time or other in the past and possibly to +those who were looking forward to serving with it in the future. + +Needless to say all ranks of the Battalion were deeply disappointed at +the Commander-in-Chief's decision, which was received as a calamity. +The highest traditions of the Battalion had been maintained +throughout, and the esprit de corps and good comradeship of all ranks +made the news almost unbearable. + +As soon as the official notification arrived the Battalion was +relieved by the First Battalion, the Dorset Regiment, and was +withdrawn to Hospital Camp near Woesten where the disbanding was to be +carried out. From then onwards an enormous amount of work fell on +everybody, especially on the Adjutant, Captain Dunsmuir, M.C., who was +responsible for compiling the rolls of the different drafts, which +were to proceed to the various H.L.I. Battalions in France, comprising +the 10/11th, 12th, 14th, 15th, 16th, and 18th Battalions. + +On the 11th of February the first draft, consisting of about seven +officers and 200 other ranks marched out of camp to the tune of the +pipes en route for the railway station at Boesinghe, where it +entrained and proceeded to join the 10/11th Battalion H.L.I. Although +there was much cheering as the train steamed away, yet there were many +men with sad hearts at leaving the Battalion they had served in from +the beginning, which had become their home in the Army. + +For the next few days that followed, similar drafts were sent off +until the strength of the Battalion was reduced to the establishment +for Headquarters with Transport. For about a week this small unit +carried on, until the Transport section, under the Transport Officer, +Lieut. Smith, was detached, and was attached to the Division where it +remained for some time until it was sent to the base for drafting. All +that remained now was the Headquarters establishment, commanded by +Lieut.-Colonel Inglis, D.S.O., who had returned from leave, and this +establishment was sent to take over another camp which was to be run +as a Divisional Reception Camp for men returning to their units from +leave. About a week later orders were received that some of the H.Q. +personnel were to be drafted away, and on the next day a draft of +about thirty men under R.S.M. Burns proceeded to join the 13th +Entrenching Battalion. A few days later all that was left of the +Battalion under Captain Dunsmuir, M.C., was drafted to the same +Battalion, and Lieut.-Colonel Inglis, D.S.O., and Major Morton, who +was again with the Battalion, were ordered to report to Divisional +Headquarters. + +All that remained now of the 17th Battalion Highland Light Infantry +was the name, but that name will always remain in the minds of those +who served in the Battalion, and the mere mention of it brings back +happy memories of days spent both at home and abroad to those who knew +it. + +As William Glennie of "A" Company, writes:--"That the good old +Battalion would end, we all expected, as the happy sequence of +completed duty, and somehow we all imagined we would be there. In our +ideal picture of the scene, George Square was clearly outlined; +somehow we fancied old Hughie would order 'Officers, fall out please,' +and while the ranks took the rhythmical right turn, the 'Faither' +would step forward from the right of 'C' Company, give his +characteristic red army salute, shake his cane and rap out 'Quick time +off the parade ground' in his best Troon parade style. But we forgot +the war, as too often in our ideal outlook we did. + + * * * * * + +"'Fall out ... the 17th Highland Light Infantry....' That was at No. 6 +Camp, Calais, in the chill dusk of 6th February, 1918. Back from +Blighty leave, as the news spread, we took it philosophically--the old +Battalion had been disbanded, and scattered to various sister +battalions. Here we were, practically all the originals to the number +of about 50, the sole remnants of 26 months of war, welcomed back to +France for the second time, but not to the Seventeenth; orphans to be +adopted by strange parents. + + * * * * * + +"'Quick march.' The party swung slowly down the rough track between +the huts. It was one of those innumerable hutted campments behind +Poperinghe. At the junction of the road stood Colonel Inglis, Majors +Morton and Paterson, Captain Dunsmuir and R.S.M. Kelly. It all seemed +so usual, save that there was more handshaking and waving of bonnets. +'Cheerio, old chap--best of luck.' Gone, those pals of three years in +camp, trench, billet and shell hole; but we never knew how great a +part of our life they had become. Then in the look in each other's +eyes, in the huskiness of the voice, rather than in the ill-concealed +tear, came the full realisation of the undying spirit of our old +Chamber of Commerce Battalion, and the certainty that the death of the +Battalion had bequeathed to us the LIVING SOUL OF THE SEVENTEENTH." + + + + +III.--AN ODD MUSTER. + + +THE SPIRIT OF THE BATTALION. + + +A corporate body is always a great mystery. Before very long it always +develops a spirit which is something more than the sum of the +individual spirits which compose it. And no man can quite say how it +comes into existence. It may be a greater spirit than that of any +individual. Sometimes it is not so great as that of its members. + +And Battalions are no exception to this rule. Each brings forth a +spirit, and by that spirit the members are henceforth profoundly +influenced. It is not the spirit of the Colonel, or of any particular +member. It is the spirit of the Battalion, something compounded by the +subtle alchemies of the spiritual world out of the individual souls of +officers and privates alike. + +Of the spirit of the 17th H.L.I. it may at once be said that the +outstanding characteristic was high-hearted youth. Most of the members +of the Battalion were young, but the Battalion itself had the +qualities of youth more truly than any of them. It was essentially +gay. It did its work to the accompaniment of a fine hilarity. It could +laugh even on the eve of battle. It could even be uproarious and +exuberant as only the really young can. + +And yet it was very efficient youth. To a man these soldiers took +their work seriously, and because they brought to it a fine quality of +intelligence, the Battalion rose to efficiency with astonishing +rapidity. Many men read eagerly in text books about training and +tactics and so forth, and the Battalion from end to end was intolerant +of slovenliness. If it resembled a young man, it was a young man who +meant business. + + [Illustration: Major The Rev. A. HERBERT GRAY.] + + [Illustration: CHURCH PARADE--PREES HEATH CAMP. + _To face page 76._] + + [Illustration: VARIOUS PHASES OF BATTALION TRAINING + _To face page 77._] + +It was also very gifted youth. Its athletic record speaks for itself, +as does also its military record. But other gifts were lavished upon +it. It knew and loved good literature. It had numbers of trained +singers and musicians. It had dramatic possibilities in it. It knew +much of science and mechanics. That young thing which we call the 17th +H.L.I. in fact loved life, and every side of life. It throbbed with +energy of body, mind, and spirit. It tingled with many sided vitality. + +But above all, it was loveable youth. Few bodies of soldiers have ever +so fully won the affections of towns and country districts. It has +left a mark of its own on Troon, Prees Heath, Wensley, Sheffield, and +Codford. People hurried out to see the column go by, and after it was +gone the hearts of men and women were happier because of it. It came +to have a place in the lives of thousands, and they all thought of it +with affection. As we look back on it now it lives with us as a silver +memory,--something belonging to the world of sunshine and laughter, of +beauty and of courage. The West of Scotland gave of its best to make +up that whole, and while it lived it made a place for itself in the +hearts of the West, which is secure for all time. + +Its career was short, but its immortality is safe. + +It is good to have known it. And though tragedy unspeakable dogged its +footsteps, and broke its life in this world, it lives and will always +live gloriously in the hearts and memories of uncounted men and women +who believe more in humanity, and perhaps even believe more in God +because of the "Seventeenth." + + + + +"CO-OPERATION." + + +One of the most outstanding and important things taught in military +text books is the value of striving to obtain "co-operation of all +arms." That is to say, the more sympathy, good comradeship and +understanding that exists between Infantry and Artillery and Cavalry +and Tanks and Air Force people and so on, the more efficient each of +these various arms becomes to carry out its respective duties. +Knowledge of the general tactical principles under which each arm +operates, and personal acquaintanceship with the various officers and +men of such other units, all tend to cement combined operations into +one smooth working whole for the pleasant efficiency of the +combinations concerned and for the better (or worse!) confusion of the +enemy. + +Such co-operation was an ideal often aimed at, but only too seldom +actually accomplished. It required the best of officers and men to +attain that perfect co-operation through understanding, which does not +either fall short of or over reach the mark. + +The following notes written by Major C.E. Lawder, late commanding "A" +Battery of the 168th Brigade, 32nd Division, Royal Field Artillery, +reveals how smoothly things ran in that all important section of +co-operation--that between Infantry and Artillery. In the eyes of +those accustomed to military affairs the following statements will +likely be recognised as perhaps the finest tribute that could be paid +to the 17th H.L.I., for it is not so much an item of direct praise, as +a sure indication of the high quality of efficiency attained by all +ranks of the Battalion, not to mention the pleasant reflection given +of "good humoured gentlemen." The 17th was ever proud to serve with +the gunners of the 168th Brigade, whose fine shooting inspired +confidence and courage:-- + +"We first met the famous 17th H.L.I. about New Year, 1916, in the La +Boiselle Sector and much concern as to the pronunciation of the +Scottish names given to the trenches was felt by my Yorkshire +gunners--Sauchiehall Street in particular defeated them. They wished +the Jocks would use Christian Huddersfield names! All my officers were +much impressed by the great kindness and hospitality shown them by the +17th H.L.I. Messes when liaison Officer with the Infantry or when +going round the front line, which we did constantly, myself as Battery +Commander every third day, and the subalterns daily--all to try and +get suggestions to better strafe the Boche and to show the Jocks that +the gunners wanted to share the pleasures of the front line with our +splendid Infantry. + +"The 17th were commonly known as the Raiders, and most excellent they +were at the job--the Hun had a holy horror of the men from Glasgow. I +well remember a chat after a good raid with the big drummer and a +little corporal of the H.L.I. Both had greatly distinguished +themselves and they asked me not to question them as to details of the +raid, as some very dirty work took place across the way! I expect it +did from the look in their eye and the happy way they handled their +clubs. + +"A great entente cordiale existed between my Battery and the Regiment +and this was referred to by Major-General Budworth, C.R.A., 4th Army, +at the Conference at Flixecourt before July 1st, 1916. All the gunners +at the gun position, then in the Orchard of Martinsart, sent in a +signed petition to be allowed to have the honour of going over the top +with the 17th in their next raid. The 17th returned the compliment by +Major W. Paul and about 20 raiders coming up to the guns from Rest +billets and carrying ammunition for us all night while we were +covering another regiment's raid. I got Major Paul on the firing seat +of one of the guns and some of the men at other guns. They did a lot +of firing but did not enjoy it. They all preferred the Infantry! + +"The 17th were badly cut up on 1st July, 1916, and my men were much +concerned about them. We were all greatly relieved to hear that both +Col. Morton and Major Paul were not among the casualties. Some of the +Officers will doubtless remember a cheery Entente Dinner at +Bouzincourt--Cocktails by our Adjutant, Lobsters and Rouen Ducks are +still fresh in my memory. The Division moved up north to the Hulluch +Sector after the Somme July Battle. We were put to another Division +for a short time, and then our own Infantry turned up. It was cheery +meeting our old friends again, but many familiar names and faces were, +sad to say, missing. + +"We had a very safe and nice gun position on a peninsula in a marsh at +Annieguin. This we made into a very smart and show position--lots of +"spit and polish." We had many visitors from the 17th and a lot of +their men used to come and bathe with ours. We fixed up a regular +bathing pool with springboard complete. All this was under cover of +trees and shrubs and quite out of sight of the Hun. I remember two of +the H.L.I. being pulled from or being stabbed in, a sap in No Man's +Land near the famous Brickstacks. We all wanted to have a Raid at once +in revenge. I forget whether it came off. Shooting here was difficult, +as the trenches were so close together, and very difficult to observe +fire. Very different was the supply of ammunition in mid and late 1916 +to early in the year. It was a horrible feeling for a Battery when +asked to shoot and help the poor old Infantry, to have to refuse for +lack of shells. At the Brickstacks we used to often fire--almost +daily--from 150 to 350 rounds Agressive Action on Hun Tender Spots. It +was then that we could retaliate about 50 to 1 if they were +sufficiently "agressed" to fire back. That kept the line--our side +(!)--quiet. + +"We all moved down in October, 1916, to the Ancre show, and a horrible +wet march it was. We separated for a bit, the Battery going to the +Scottish 51st Division. We were then rejoined by our own Infantry at +Beaumont Hamel. I got smashed up and was evacuated home, and just +after, my best Officer, Lieut. H.W. Ainley was burned to death at the +Wagon Line. He was a splendid fellow and very well known to the 17th. + +"Officers and men of both Units were always together and better +feeling between them could not exist. It was a great honour to know +the 17th and we gloried in being the Battery to cover them at the P. +of E. in a raid." [The P. of E. is the Point of Entry, necessitating +very accurate gunlaying, timing, and strict adherence to the barrage +programme.] + + [Illustration: "THE OUTPOST" STAFF ON ACTIVE SERVICE.] + + [Illustration: THE ORIGINAL EDITORIAL STAFF. + Sgt. FERGUSON, the late Sgt. REITH and Pte. HUTCHESON. + _To face page 81._] + + + + +"THE OUTPOST." + + +One of the most outstanding activities of the Battalion was the +production of a periodical which combined a considerable high level of +artistic and literary excellence with a racy narrative of Battalion +news and _personalia_. This regimental magazine of the 17th H.L.I. was +conceived in 1914, though actually founded early in 1915, and from +that time, throughout all the rigours of work at home--and the +extraordinary difficulties of operations in the Field, _The Outpost_ +was produced, and well produced. Perhaps more than anything, the +standard and record of this production, and its acceptance and +success, both within the unit and with an ever growing general public, +reflects the intellectual level of those who composed the Battalion. +In an appreciation which appeared in _The Glasgow News_ in June, 1919, +on the occasion of the completion of the seventh volume, it is +remarked--"Nursed in its early youth by an editorial staff that was +not without experience, it proved a lusty infant, and as the years +went on it gained in strength. + +"In a sort of valedictory--for the magazine will still be published +annually by the Seventeen Club--the editor sings its praises. He has +every right to pitch them on a high key. He points out that the paper +has always been welcomed and appreciated in many homes (yes, even in +Buckingham Palace), and in training camps, hospitals, rest camps, +lonely dug-outs, and soaking trenches, as well as in the scorching +East and amid Arctic snows. Wherever old members have gone at duty's +call, their magazine has followed, and has interested and cheered with +its articles and illustrations of the lighter side of Army life. + +"Lately a noted writer on military topics, an English officer of high +rank, in giving a most appreciative criticism of _The Outpost_, +said--'It is only your dour, determined Scotsmen who could manage to +'carry-on' such a paper under the tremendous handicaps of active +service, and the result has been unquestionably the finest literary +and artistic venture in battalion magazines that the war has +produced.'" + +In a note concerning those who originated and inspired this war +publication--unique in its continued success--Mr. J. M'Kechnie, whose +name is intimately associated with its success, says--"The credit of +the original idea of publishing a Battalion Magazine belongs to Lieut. +J. Kelly--our first R.S.M. Early in January, 1915, he called a meeting +at which the journalistic machinery was set in motion. The appointment +of the late Mr. Steven D. Reith as Editor assured the success of the +venture, for under his able and enthusiastic direction, _The Outpost_ +from the first number reached a standard hitherto unapproached in +British military publications. From month to month it supplied a +bright literary and artistic reflection of the chief events in the +life of the Battalion, and the editorial aimed at giving a lead to the +more serious thought of its readers. + +"Throughout its active service career _The Outpost_ was edited by the +following:--The late Mr. Steven D. Reith, Mr. J.L. Hardie, Mr. J. +M'Kechnie, and Mr. W. Glennie. Mr. W. J.F. Hutcheson performed the +duties of Home Editor until November, 1917, when he handed on the +torch to Mr. Frank K. Pickles, who acted as Editor during the last +year." + +Copies and Volumes of _The Outpost_ will remain among the most +cherished keepsakes of all members of the Battalion, and a complete +set of all numbers of the production is being carefully and jealously +preserved in the archives of the Glasgow Chamber of Commerce. There +its pages will rank with the greatest achievements of industrial and +commercial affairs as evidence of the judgment, humour, poetry, and +doggedness of a Battalion so intimately bound up in the traditions of +a great house, and indeed, also reflective of the traditions of +Scottish industrialism, whose eminence is the manifestation of those +very elements of balanced judgment and perseverance, coupled with that +saving humour and imagination which has marked alike its progress in +the markets of the world no less than in the fields of war. + + [Illustration: The Late STEVEN D. REITH, D.C.M.] + + [Illustration: Lce.-Corpl. F.K. PICKLES. + _To face page 82._] + + [Illustration: MARGUS--THE MASCOT.] + + [Illustration: ONE OF THE BATTALION RUGBY FOOTBALL TEAMS. + _To face page 83._] + + + + +SPORT OF THE BATTALION. + + +The achievements of the Seventeenth in the field of fire cannot be +dissociated from their experiences in the field of sport. The exploits +of the Battalion in Football, Cross-country Running, and +Boxing--revealing as they did the elements of challenge, perseverance, +cheerfulness in defeat, and also the power to win honours to their +name--have their grand reflex in the more grim and arduous experiences +through which the Battalion was called to pass. + +In October, 1915, the Battalion won Divisional honours in +Cross-country Running. The winning of the Cup and medals in an event +in which a thousand runners took part was no small feat. + +In the world of "Rugger" the Battalion's career was one triumphal +march, but the end accomplished cannot be summed up in figures, +adverse or the reverse. As for "Soccer" the successive achievements of +the Battalion are recorded in every number of _The Outpost_. Minor +struggles and conquests are recalled and rejoiced in, but the glory of +carrying off another Divisional Cup will never be forgotten by those +who witnessed the fray. Progress to the final of the event was not +easy, and the final was a particularly hard fought game, and though +the Battalion won, it was felt that equal honours were due to the +vanquished for their good play and sportsmanship. + +In the Boxing World, the name of Corporal George Barrie, will be ever +green in the memory of all Seventeenth men; and the honour brought to +the Battalion by his pupil, Pte. Cushley, in winning two Divisional +Cups for Boxing, can be looked upon as a fitting tribute to Barrie, +the man who played the game even unto death. + +Altogether the Seventeenth has much to be proud of in its athletic +record, and in future days when those of the Battalion sit round and +tell of the things which are theirs, which they won also at great +cost, their prowess in the field will not be among the least; for it +played no insignificant part in the making of the Battalion which, +although disbanded, has remained, both in name and in comradeship, +still the Seventeenth. + + + + +THE R.S.M. + + +Any history of the "Seventeenth" would be incomplete without a passing +reference to James Kelly. + +Chosen at the inception of the Battalion out of a large number of +applicants, and appointed Regimental Sergeant Major, his selection was +amply justified by results. He had seen much service in The Royal +Scots, and active service in South Africa, where he was +Colour-Sergeant of his Company and where he gained the D.C.M. + +A man of commanding appearance, always very smartly turned out, he set +a fine example to all ranks and speedily infused the real military +spirit into the rank and file. During training at home and on service +in France he did splendid work, and to him is due in no small measure +the high standard of efficiency and discipline maintained in the +Battalion. In manner somewhat brusque, but of a tender heart withal, +he was the friend and confidant of nearly all the Officers, N.C.O.s +and men, and when off parade the best of good fellows. + + DAVID S. MORTON, + _Lieut.-Colonel._ + + + + +A REMEMBRANCE. + +Do you hear it, all of you, and remember. Listen! + +"Markers outwards turn. Quick march." + +"Up, number four. Look sharp. That'll do." + +"Markers, steadi-i-i-i-i----." + +"Right turn." + +"Fall in." And then the final great roar of-- + +"Stop all that yammering." And how quickly it stopped, too. + +Do you remember it, and who said it? Of course you do, just as clearly +as I myself do. You remember those early mornings, too. The sleepy +chatter stilled in an instant to silence. And all those other days, +too, when custom had made it imperative on all parades, it was part of +us and our ceremonial. + + [Illustration: Lieut. and Q.-M. (formerly Regimental Sergeant + Major) JAMES KELLY. + _To face page 84._] + + [Illustration: Mrs. DAVID S. MORTON, + Convener of the Comforts Committee. + _To face page 85._] + +The repeating of it to ourselves conjures up the history of those +never-to-be-forgotten days and carries back our spirits to commune +with all those gone before us. + +I say it to myself often now just to bring before me those wonderful +memories. I have heard it on the sea front at Troon; on the Hills of +Dundonald; at Prees Heath, in the lovely woodlands and parks of +England; on the moors of Yorkshire; at Sheffield. It has sounded over +the vast spaces of Salisbury Plain, and in France and Flanders, where +all it stands for was so wonderfully justified and upheld, calling up +that wonderful spirit and special discipline. That was the dear old +Seventeenth. + + + + +THE COMFORTS COMMITTEE. + + +On the Battalion embarking for active service, the Battalion Committee +suggested that a Ladies' Committee be formed to carry out the supply +of Comforts which would tend to alleviate the hardships of the battle +line. The members of the Chamber provided funds in a most generous +manner, and the following ladies consented to form a Ladies' +Committee:--Mrs. D.S. Morton (Convener), Lady M'Innes Shaw, Mrs. J.M. +Mitchell, Mrs. R.A. Murray, Mrs. W.J. Paul, Mrs. W.F. Russell, Mrs. +John Reid, Mrs. Albert A. Smith, and Miss G.D. Young. + +Miss G.D. Young acted as Secretary and at a later stage she was +succeeded by Miss M.E. M'Clymont of the staff of the Chamber. The +relatives of the men of the Battalion were notified of the formation +of the Comforts Committee, and were invited to assist in knitting +articles, the wool for which in most cases, was supplied by the +Committee. With this help, and by the industry of the Ladies' +Committee, a very large quantity of shirts, socks, helmets, scarfs, +gloves, etc., was sent abroad. + +The conditions under which the men were fighting was always wisely +considered, and for trench dug-outs and cellar billets, a regular +supply of candles was forwarded by the Committee. Christmas presents +were also sent overseas for each man. Provision was made for the time +when the Battalion was out of line for rest, and a supply of weekly +and monthly periodicals was regularly despatched. Needless to say, all +these were very acceptable. + +While thanks are due to all the members of the Ladies' Committee, it +must be placed on record that Mrs. Morton, as Convener, rendered +invaluable services and it is universally recognised that to her +indefatigable labours the men in France owed much. + + + + +MEMORIAL SERVICE IN GLASGOW. + + +A Memorial Service in honour of the officers, non-commissioned +officers and men of the 17th Highland Light Infantry, who fell in the +battle of the Somme and elsewhere was held at Glasgow Cathedral, on +July 8th, 1917. Fully 1,200 people were present, and many soldiers of +all ranks were among the congregation, including a number of wounded +men belonging to the Battalion. The "Dead March in Saul" was played at +the commencement, and the service was most impressive throughout. The +preacher was the Rev. A. Herbert Gray, one time Chaplain of the +Battalion, and the service included the anthem, "What are these?" sung +by the choir. + +Preaching from the text--"We also are compassed about with so great a +cloud of witnesses," Mr. Gray said: "It must not be to mere mourning +that we give ourselves this afternoon. We are met to recall a very +great page in the history of our city and district. In the year 1916, +the hundreds of young men of whom we are thinking dared to die in a +great cause. Young, strong, and free, full of high hopes and great +purpose, in love with life, and in a hundred ways fitted for mastery +in it, they yet consented to deal with death. A hundred other +ambitions had flushed their hearts, but because humanity called they +laid them all aside and went to the great war. No such life was their +choice, but because it was their destiny they accepted it with a +smile. No compulsion save that of honour constrained them. They were +recruited simply by conscience and the claims of humanity. They made +one of the finest Battalions that ever left these shores, for some of +the very best of the rising generation were in their ranks. And though +they were not soldiers by profession they proved themselves worthy of +a regiment that has traditions of honour as old as the British Army. + +"Wherefore, here in God's House, we may well first of all rejoice +concerning them, and give thanks to God who has put so great a spirit +into man. Though tears be in our hearts we must not fail to be proud +and thankful--proud because they were our brothers, and thankful +because they finished their course in faith." + +After mentioning the subject of a suitable memorial, and suggesting +that there could be nothing more worthy than the monument of a Britain +turned to God, the preacher concluded with the following impressive +words:-- + +"From a hundred lonely graves in that foreign land--from the spots +where they fell, and which now are sacred spots for us--our dead are +asking us when we mean to erect that monument. From trench and shell +hole where death found them, their voices call--young, musical voices, +the voices of boys still in their teens, the voices of martyrs on +life's threshold. Scarce a wind can blow that will not waft to you +these voices. And they ask a better Britain as their monument. They +ask it of you and me. Shall we not go from this place resolved to +build it?" + + + + +THE CLUB. + + +Much has been written, and many discussions have arisen concerning the +good-fellowship and camaraderie which exists among the survivors of +the 17th H.L.I., and able pens will express the high ideals aimed at, +and the strong determination in the minds of those remnants to +establish "The Club" on a basis good and sound. Since the inauguration +of the Battalion in September, 1914, there has been a predominating +feeling that such an institution should be made. + +Since the first batch of men arrived in Glasgow from France +arrangements were made which facilitated meeting daily in Craig's +Smoke Room in Gordon Street--the arrangement still holds good. Any +forenoon the boys may be found over their coffee and incidentally +discussing the chance of one day, in the near future, having a "nook" +of their own. The object of having such a place is to afford such +privacy as premises of their own would give, in order to have +uninterrupted meetings, business or pleasure, as the occasion +demanded. + +One great object of the Club is to establish the Benevolent Fund of +the Battalion on a sound financial basis, so as to be in a position to +deal with necessitous cases connected with the 17th Battalion, and it +is thought that this is the only way. It is intended that the Club +should be self-supporting, and assistance is hoped for, morally and +financially, of all those who are interested in the affairs +appertaining to the old Battalion. + +A Committee to carry on the good work has been formed, and includes +Colonel Morton, Major Young, with Messrs. Ritchie, Tilley, Corbett and +M'Andrew from the various Companies, along with Mr. J.W. Arthur on the +Benevolent Fund Committee, as representing the Chamber of Commerce. +This Committee will report progress to a General Meeting, at which it +is hoped to decide what steps may be taken to acquire a Working +Capital. It is possible that a Voluntary Subscription List may be +opened, and it is hoped that the opportunity may be given to help the +worthy project of thus forming a Memorial to those who have fallen in +the great cause. + +No better monument of love and good-fellowship could be thought of +than to give a helping hand in the hour of need, and, to provide +towards a comfortable home for those who are left to enjoy it. + + + + +"E" COMPANY. + + +At the beginning of January, 1915, the 17th H.L.I. had recruited its +full war strength, and the authorities decreed that a Reserve Company +should be formed. This became "E" Company, and was trained as a unit +of the Battalion at Troon, until the 17th left for England. On May +13th, 1915, it was transferred to Gailes, and became a unit of the +19th Reserve Battalion, Lieut.-Colonel Auld being in command. Under +his training, the Company, as well as the Battalion, reached a high +standard of efficiency. After being inspected by Brigadier-General +Cockburn on the 28th September, 1916, a draft of 101 N.C.O.s and men +was sent to join the 17th H.L.I. at Codford. What was left of "E" Coy. +entrained on 26th October, 1915, at Gailes for Ripon. The men were +billeted in excellent huts in the South Camp of that quaint old +cathedral town, where route marches took place and many excursions +were made to many of the interesting towns and places of interest. + +When the 17th embarked for France, some details left behind arrived +from Codford on 15th December, 1915, and brought back many old friends +and highly efficient instructors. Later on Viscount French paid a +visit of inspection to the Ripon area, and the 19th H.L.I. formed part +of the Guard of Honour on that occasion. + +After Ripon came Montrose, and although connected with the Battalion's +history only in a small way, the period from 25th April, 1916, to 12th +June, 1917, is nevertheless well worthy of mention. Montrose with its +lovely beaches and pleasant surroundings, forms one of the happiest +memories of those who found themselves part of the 19th H.L.I. during +its sojourn there. + +1916-17 was a trying time in the life of the Reserve Battalion. +Training was concentrated to an unheard-of degree--a recruit being +allowed nine short weeks before he found himself on Embarkation Leave. +Drafts were required by the dozen, both for the Western Front (for +which the Somme and Beaumont Hamel Offensives were chiefly +responsible) and for the Eastern Front. Then there was the trying +coastguard work with its trench-digging excursions to Lunan Bay--work +which probably helped to avert a danger not so remote as we then +imagined. + +"E" Company had a fair share of all these worries, and its able +Commander, Captain F.D. Morton, was kept busy choosing drafts, +arranging programmes, and working out tactical schemes. + +Major W.H. Anderson, who afterwards became Lieut.-Colonel, and was +awarded the V.C. after his lamented death, did much for the good of +the Battalion; and the Soldiers' Home, run by Mrs. Anderson, and Mrs. +Auld, proved of great advantage to the men. This period marked the +extinction of "E" Company, as representing the 17th. Draft after draft +had robbed it of its original appearance, and when on 1st September, +1916, the 19th became the 78th Training Reserve Battalion, it lost all +semblance of its former self, and may be said to have had an +inglorious end to a short but useful life. + + [Illustration: LIEUT.-COLONEL W. AULD, V.D. + _To face page 90._] + + [Illustration: The late Lt.-Col. WILLIAM HERBERT ANDERSON, V.C.] + + [Illustration: The late Sergt. J.Y. TURNBULL, V.C. + _To face page 91._] + + + + +IV.--HONOURS AND AWARDS. + + +Battalion Honour. + + +Extract from _The London Gazette_, dated 26/5/16. + +The following is extracted from Sir Douglas Haig's Despatch, dated +19/5/16:-- + + "8.--While many other units have done excellent work during the + period under review, the following have been brought to my + notice for good work in carrying out or repelling local attacks + and raids-- + + "17th (Service) Battalion Highland Light Infantry." + + + +Victoria Cross. + ++Lieut.-Colonel W.H. Anderson, formerly Captain "C" Company. Gained + while serving with 12th Battalion H.L.I. + ++15888 Sergeant J.Y. TURNBULL. _Gazette_ dated 25/12/16. + ++ Since deceased. + +The following is the extract from _The London Gazette_ of 3rd May, +1918, intimating the award of the Victoria Cross:-- + + "T. Maj. (A. Lt.-Col.) WILLIAM HERBERT ANDERSON, + late H.L.I. + + "For most conspicuous bravery, determination, and gallant + leading of his command. The enemy attacked on the right of the + Battalion frontage, and succeeded in penetrating the wood held + by our men. Owing to successive lines of the enemy following on + closely there was the gravest danger that the flank of the whole + position would be turned. Grasping the seriousness of the + situation, Colonel Anderson made his way across the open in full + view of the enemy now holding the wood on the right, and after + much effort succeeded in gathering the remainder of the two + right companies. He personally led the counter attack, and drove + the enemy from the wood, capturing 12 machine guns and 70 + prisoners, and restoring the original line. His conduct in + leading the charge was quite fearless, and his most splendid + example was the means of rallying and inspiring the men during a + most critical hour. + + "Later on in the same day the enemy had penetrated to within 300 + yards of the village, and were holding a timber yard in force. + Colonel Anderson re-organised his men after they had been driven + in, and brought them forward to a position of readiness for a + counter-attack. He led the attack in person, and throughout + showed the utmost disregard for his own safety. The + counter-attack drove the enemy from his position, but resulted + in this very gallant officer losing his life. He died fighting + within the enemy's lines, setting a magnificent example to all + who were privileged to serve under him." + + Among the first to join the 17th H.L.I. was Captain W.H. + Anderson, a man widely known and highly respected in Glasgow + social and business circles. He was with the Battalion during + most of its training at Gailes and Troon, and before embarking + for Service in France was gazetted as Major in the 19th H.L.I. + He served with the same rank in the East Surreys till invalided + home in March, 1917. On his return to France he was transferred + to an H.L.I. Battalion, becoming Lieut.-Colonel, and shortly + afterwards was killed in an attack at the head of his men of the + 12th H.L.I. as recorded above. + + + Sergeant JAMES Y. TURNBULL, V.C. + + It has been said of James Turnbull that he began to win his V.C. + at Troon. He was a born leader, and always a fearless champion + of fairplay. He towered above the average man in strength of + character as he did in stature, and he was always the same + unassuming and genial "Jimmy." He was a fitting embodiment of + the ideals of the Seventeenth. A big man for a big occasion--and + the big occasion came along on the 1st of July, 1916. + + The position of the Battalion was that of a wedge driven against + the iron of impregnability, and the driving force suddenly + withdrawn. At the thin end of the wedge Sergeant Turnbull, with + a handful of men, performed prodigies of valour. From three + sides enemy machine guns swept the position, snipers took deadly + toll, and bombing attacks were constantly launched. Exposure + meant almost certain death. The position was not only desperate; + it was hopeless. Yet it was necessary to hold on till nightfall. + It was a _man's_ job, and Turnbull filled the bill. He + shouldered the responsibility as only a strong man could; and he + organised the defence. He had to take countless risks, and was + always where the fighting was fiercest. He was the indomitable + leader and inspiring example. Wounded, he carried on till his + last risk was taken, and he met a soldier's death towards the + end of that fateful summer day. + + Of a band of heroes he was the beloved leader and super-hero. + + + + +Honours Gained by Officers and others while Serving with the +Battalion. + + +Extract from _The London Gazette_, dated 3/6/16. + + "To be additional member of the Third Class or Companion of the + Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George. + + "Lieut.-Colonel D.S. Morton, V.D." + + +Military Cross. + + Date of _Gazette_ ++Lieut. A.J. BEGG, 30/ 5/16 + 2nd Lieut. J.L. BRODIE, 26/ 5/17 ++2nd Lieut. J.N. CARPENTER, 30/ 5/16 + Lieut. A.N. DRYSDALE, 13/ 2/17 + Capt. F.E. DUNSMUIR, 1/ 1/18 + Lieut. J.L. M'CONNELL, 17/ 9/17 + 2nd Lieut. W.M. MARTIN, 26/ 5/17 + Major G. R.S. PATERSON, 26/ 9/16 ++Capt. JAS. RUSSELL, 1/ 1/17 + Capt. J.D. RUSSELL, 26/ 5/17 + 2nd Lieut. D.G. THORBURN, 18/ 6/17 + 15214 R.Q.-M.S. W. DUNSMORE, 1/ 1/17 + 15394 C.S.M. A. MILLAR, 6/ 4/18 + ++ Since deceased. + + +Mentioned in Despatches. + +_The London Gazette_, dated 15/6/16. + Lieut.-Colonel D.S. MORTON, V.D. + 15205 Regt. S.M. J. KELLY. + +_The London Gazette_, dated 4/1/17. + +Capt. J.S. MARR. + +_The London Gazette_, dated 25/5/17 + 2nd Lieut. F.E. DUNSMUIR. + 16109 Sergt. W. WALLACE. + +_The London Gazette_, dated 21/12/17. + Major G.R.S. PATERSON, M.C. + 15510 Sergt. J.C. BRUCE. + 16084 Sergt. Y. GILBERT. + 16085 Pte. W. PARKER. + + +Distinguished Conduct Medal. + + 15849 Sergt. W. FRASER, 1/ 1/18 + 2797 Sergt. F. LEIPER, 13/ 2/17 + 15866 C.S.M. W. MATHER, 1/ 1/17 ++15507 C.S.M. S.D. REITH, 30/ 5/16 + ++ Since deceased. + + +Bar to Military Medal. + ++2997 Sergt. N. CONNOR, M.M. + ++ Since deceased. + + +Military Medal. + + Date of _Gazette_. + ++23053 Pte. G.S. ANDERSON, 26/ 5/17 + 15255 Cpl. J. CHAPMAN, 10/11/16 ++ 2997 Sergt. N. CONNOR, 16/ 2/17 + 16004 Pte. J.K. DEANS, 16/ 2/17 + 15973 L.-Sergt. W. DICKSON, 17/ 9/17 + 15937 Cpl. F. FARNELL, 17/ 9/17 + 15582 L.-Cpl. A.V. FOLLETT, 17/ 9/17 + 40899 Pte. A.B. FORREST, 17/ 9/17 + 15581 Pte. C.N. FRASER, 16/ 2/17 + 16084 Sergt. Y. GILBERT, 16/ 2/17 + 2727 L.-Cpl. W. GLENNIE, 26/ 5/17 + 41046 Pte. J. HOGG, 26/ 5/17 + 2744 Pte. J.C. HUNTER, 20/10/16 + 9808 Sergt. J. JOHNSTONE, 26/ 5/17 + 2797 Pte. F. LEIPER, 3/ 6/16 + 15748 Sergt. F.M. M'GREGOR, 16/ 2/17 ++15720 Pte. D. MACINTOSH, 3/ 6/16 + 15363 Pte. A.G. M'NAIR, 10/11/16 ++15677 Sergt. J. MAXWELL, 16/ 2/17 ++16146 Sergt. R. MILLIGAN, 29/ 8/17 ++15964 Sergt. J. OSBORNE, 16/ 2/17 + 27267 L.-Cpl. J. PEARSON, 26/ 5/17 + 2725 L.-Sergt. J. RAMAGE, 26/ 5/17 + 41198 Pte. E. REDDINGTON, 26/ 5/17 + 15415 Sergt. T. RITCHIE, 20/10/16 + 15775 Sergt. J. ROBERTS, 16/ 2/17 + 28057 L.-Cpl. P. ROBERTSON, 26/ 5/17 + 43268 Pte. T. SCOTT, 16/ 2/17 + 13688 Pte. R.J. SLOWEY, 16/ 2/17 + 42378 Pte. P. SMITH, 26/ 5/17 + 15956 C.Q.M.S. W. STEWART, 16/ 2/17 ++15458 Sergt. H.G. TAYLOR, 3/ 6/16 + 16149 Cpl. H. THORBURN, 26/ 5/17 + 41607 Pte. D. TURNBULL, 18/ 6/17 + 15938 Sergt. A.G. WATSON, 16/ 2/17 + 15818 Pte. R.M. WATSON, 16/ 2/17 + 40530 Pte. J. WATT, 26/ 4/17 +353079 Pte. F.S. WILLDER, 17/ 9/17 + ++ Since deceased. + + +Meritorious Service Medal. + + 15544 Sergt. M. CULLEN. + 16064 L.-Cpl. J. HUTTON, att. IV. Corps. + 15710 L.-Cpl. J.A. M'DOUGALL, 32nd Division. + 16169 Sergt. J.F. SINCLAIR, 97th Brigade. + + +Belgian Croix de Guerre. + + 15310 C.S.M. G. HIRST. + 16109 C.Q.M.S. W. WALLACE. + + + Honours Gained by Original Members of the Battalion + after being Transferred to other Units. + + +Distinguished Service Order. + + Major G.R.S. PATERSON, 5th K.O.S.B., + formerly Major 17th H.L.I. + + Capt. J.D. YOUNG, 10th A. & S. Highlanders, + formerly 2916 Pte. "B" Coy. + + +Bar to Military Cross. + + Lieut. J. CALLAN, M.C., 12th H.L.I., + formerly 15527 L.-Cpl., "A" Coy. + + Capt. A.W. DONALD, M.C., 252 Coy. R.E., + formerly 15200 L.-Cpl. "B" Coy. + ++2nd Lieut. C.B. MEADOWS, M.C, + King's Own Royal Lancashire Regiment, + formerly 23015 Pte. "C" Coy. + ++ Since deceased. + + +Military Cross. + + Lieut. R. ANDERSON, 13th Battalion Tank Corps, + formerly 15832 Sergeant "A" Coy. + + Lieut. H.T. BAIRD, 447th Coy. R.E., + formerly 15509 Pte. "A" Coy. + + 2nd LIEUT. A. BROWN, A. & S. Highlanders, + formerly 16187 Pte. "C" Coy. + + Lieut. J. CALLAN, 12th H.L.I., + formerly 15527 L.-Cpl. "A" Coy. + + Lieut. S. CAMPBELL, 12th H.L.I., + formerly 15982 Pte. "C" Coy. + + Lieut. J.H. CARSWELL, + 1st Northumberland Fusiliers, + formerly 2708 L.-Cpl. "B" Coy. + + Captain A.W. DONALD, 252nd Coy. R.E., + formerly 15200 L.-Cpl. "B" Coy. + + 2nd Lieut. A.G. DRUMMOND, 6th Black Watch, + formerly 23011 Pte. "A" Coy. + + 2nd LIEUT. H.C. DAVIE, + 1/8th Battalion Scottish Rifles, + formerly 15561 L.-Cpl. "C" Coy. + + Lieut. A.F. FERGUSON, H.L.I., attached R.A.F., + formerly 15282 C.Q.M.S. "A" Coy. + ++2nd Lieut. E.L. GARVIE, + 9th H.L.I. (Glasgow Highlanders), + formerly 2956 Pte. "B" Coy. + + Lieut. H.P. HADDOW, King's Royal Rifle Corps, + formerly 15854 L.-Cpl. "A" Coy. + ++Captain J.M. HAMILTON, Lancashire Fusiliers, + formerly 2783 Pte. "B" Coy. + + Lieut. H. HENDERSON, Liverpool Scottish, + formerly 16182 Sergt. "C" Coy. + + 2nd Lieut. J.F. HOLMES, 9th Scottish Rifles, + formerly 15856 Pte. "C" Coy. + + Lieut. J.L. JACK, Machine Gun Corps, + formerly 2843 Pte. "C" Coy. + + Lieut. S.F. JOHNSTONE, Durham Light Infantry, + formerly 15323 Cpl. "C" Coy. + + 2nd Lieut H.W. JORDON, + 19th Durham Light Infantry, + formerly 2698 L.-Cpl. "C" Coy. + + Staff-Capt. T.P. LOCKING, General List, + formerly 15657 Sergt. "B" Coy. + + 2nd Lieut. R. LOVE, 222nd Coy. R.E., + formerly 15336 Pte. "A" Coy. + + Capt. F.M. M'GREGOR, M.M., Northants Regiment, + formerly 15748 Act.-C.S.M. "C" Coy. + ++2nd Lieut. C.B. MEADOWS, + King's Own Royal Lancashire Regiment, + formerly 23015 Pte. "C" Coy. + + Lieut. A.A. MILLER, + 9th H.L.I. (Glasgow Highlanders), + formerly 15680 Pte. "B" Coy. + ++Lieut. J. MILLER, 7th A. & S. Highlanders, + formerly 2970 Pte. A. & S.H. Cy. + + Capt. F.D. MORTON, 25th Royal Fusiliers, + formerly Lieut. "C" Coy. + + Sub-Lieut. T.I. MORTON, + "Anson" Battalion, R.N. Division, + formerly 15693 "C" Coy. + + Capt. J.D. YOUNG, 10th A. & S. Highlanders, + formerly 2916 Pte. "B" Coy. + ++ Since deceased. + + +Member of the Order of the British Empire. + + Lieut. W. HOGG, Intelligence Corps, + formerly 15629 Cpl. "B" Coy. + + +Distinguished Conduct Medal. + + 34834 Sergt. T. GARMORY, + 8th York and Lancaster Regiment, + formerly 2985 Pte. "D" Coy. + ++22355 Sergt. J.A. WARK, Machine Gun Corps, + formerly 15461 Pte. "B" Coy. + + +Military Medal. + + 16018 Pte. R. HOOD, 2nd Battn. H.L.I., + formerly "D" Coy. + + 15440 Cpl. W.P. STEEL, 8th York and Lancs., + formerly 15440 Pte. "B" Coy. + + 34853 L.-Cpl. J.L. WILSON, 8th York and Lancs., + formerly 15813 Pte. "D" Coy. + ++15583 Pte. R.D. FRAME, 2nd H.L.I., + formerly Pte. "C" Coy. + + 15389 Cpl. D. MURRAY, 16th H.L.I., + formerly L.-Cpl. "B" Coy. + + 15373 Sergt. F.J. M'CLUSKY, 2nd H.L.I., + formerly L.-Cpl., "A" Coy. + + ---- Sergt. A. M'AUSLAN, R.E., + formerly 15365 L.-Cpl. "A" Coy. + + 16192 L.-Cpl. H. M'KILLOP, 16th H.L.I., + formerly L.-Cpl. "A" Coy. + ++ Since deceased. + + +Every effort has been made by reference to the Battalion Records, by +advertising and otherwise, to make these lists complete. The Editors +will much regret should there be unfortunately any omissions. + + + + + LIST OF OFFICERS who were granted Commissions in the + Battalion on its formation and posted to Companies + as shewn. + + +Lieut.-Colonel D.S. MORTON, V.D. + + +"A" Company. + + Major W.J. PAUL + (_Commanding_). + + Captain W.W. MORTON. + Lieut. R.T. NEILSON. + Lieut. J.B. MACBRAYNE. + Lieut. GARDNER. + Lieut. G.R.S. PATERSON. + + +"B" Company. + + Major J.R. YOUNG + (_Commanding_). + + Captain J. RUSSELL. + Lieut. G.V.M. BOYD. + Lieut. A.J. BEGG. + 2nd Lieut. R. SCOTT. + + +"C" Company. + + Major W. AULD, V.D. + (_Commanding_). + + Captain W.H. ANDERSON. + Lieut. A.J. FERGUSON. + Lieut. F.D. MORTON. + Lieut. A.S. MILLAR. + Lieut J.S. SHARP. + + +"D" Company. + + Captain E. HUTCHISON + (_Commanding_). + + Captain J. MCM. MITCHELL. + 2nd Lieut. P.G. SYMINGTON. + Lieut. R.W. CASSELL. + 2nd Lieut. D. KITCHEN. + Lieut. J.M. BROWN. + +Lieut. and Quartermaster A.E. SLADE. + +Lieut. D.R. KIRKPATRICK, R.A.M.C. (attached). + + +The Battalion was successively under the Command of:-- + + Colonel D.S. MORTON, C.M.G., V.D. + + Lieut.-Colonel W.J. PAUL. + + Lieut.-Colonel F.R.F. SWORDER, + Gordon Highlanders. + + Lieut.-Colonel J. INGLIS, C.M.G., D.S.O., + Highland Light Infantry. + + + =The following "other ranks" of the Battalion + were granted Commissions in the Battalion.= + +2nd Lt. W.M. ALEXANDER, _Killed in Action_, 1/ 7/16 +2nd Lt. J.R. BECKETT, _Wounded in Action_, 1/ 7/16 + _Died of Wounds_, 4/ 7/16 +2nd Lt. J.L. BRODIE, M.C., To 15th H.L.I, on disbandment. +*2nd Lt. J.M. BROWN. -- -- +2nd Lt. J.N. CARPENTER, M.C., _Killed in Action_, 1/ 7/16 +2nd Lt. J. CHAPMAN, _Wounded in Action_, 1/ 7/16 +*2nd Lt. H.C. COLVIL. -- -- +2nd Lt. P.N. CUNNINGHAM, _Killed in Action_, 2/12/17 +Captain E. DOBSON, _Killed in Action_, 10/ 7/17 +Captain A.N. DRYSDALE, M.C., _Died of Wounds_, 15/ 4/17 +Lieut. A.S. ELSWORTH, { _Wounded in Action_, 1/ 7/16 + { _Wounded in Action_, / 8/17 +*2nd Lt. J.W. FRASER. -- -- +*2nd Lt. P.H. GRAHAM. -- -- +2nd Lt. G.G. HENDERSON, _Killed in Action_, 6/ 8/16 +*2nd Lt. H.G. HENDRY. -- -- +2nd Lt. W.A. HERRON, _Wounded in Action_, / 8/17 +Lieut. JAS. KELLY, D.C.M., -- -- +2nd Lt. A.D. LAIRD, _Killed in Action_, 1/ 7/16 +Captain T.P. LOCKING, -- -- +Captain J.F. MORRISON, _Killed in Action_, 18/11/16 +Captain J.S. MARR, _Killed in Action_, 18/11/16 +Captain H. M'ROBERT, To General Staff (Staff Captain). +Captain J.L. M'CONNELL, M.C., To General List (Staff Captain). +2nd Lt. J.M. MACARTHUR, To T.M. Battery +Captain A.G. MARSHALL, _Killed in Action_, 12/ 2/17 +*2nd Lt. H.R. ORR. -- -- +2nd Lt. J. OSBORNE, _Killed in Action_, 2/12/17 +2nd Lt. H.R. PEAT, _Wounded in Action_, 10/ 7/17 +*2nd Lt. F.H. POOLEY. -- -- +*2nd Lt. F.A. RUSSELL. -- -- +2nd Lt. J.C. TODD, _Killed in Action_, 27/ 6/17 +*2nd Lt. G.B. WALKER. -- -- +2nd Lt. C.S. WILLIAMSON, _Wounded in Action_, / 8/17 +2nd Lt. D.G. YOUNGER, _Killed in Action_, 1/ 7/16 + +* These Officers did not serve with the Battalion in France. The ranks +noted are those which they held previous to Embarkation. + + + Roll of Warrant Officers, Non-Commissioned Officers and + Men, who joined the Chamber of Commerce Battalion from 12th + September, 1914, till Embarkation of Battalion, 22nd + November, 1915. + +All the undernoted joined the Battalion as Privates. The Ranks shown +are those attained previous to Embarkation. + +==========+=================+=============================== + Reg. No. | Rank. | Name. +----------+-----------------+------------------------------- + 15200 | L.-Corpl. | Donald, Alex. Watt. + 15201 | Pte. | Buchanan, Joseph Robt. + 15202 | Pte. | Pert, David. + 15203 | Pte. | Love, Alan. + 15204 | Sergt. | Todd, Matthew G. + 15205 | R.S.M. | Kelly, J. + 15206 | R.Q.M.S. | Keith, T. + 15207 | O.R./Q.M.S. | Copland, J. + 15208 | Pte. | Anderson, Wm. + 15209 | C.Q.M.S. | Ferguson, A.W. + 15210 | C.S.M. | M'Clusky, F. + 15211 | C.Q.M.S. | Williams, E.A. + 15212 | C.S.M. | Garrow, J.C. + 15213 | C.Q.M.S. | Ferris, H. + 15214 | C.S.M. | Dunsmore, W. + 15215 | C.Q.M.S. | Core, T.M. + 15216 | C.S.M. | Taylor, G.H. + 15217 | Pte. | Seaton, James. + 15218 | Pte. | Adam, Arthur Wm. + 15219 | Pte. | Armstrong, John. + 15220 | Pte. | Allan, Peter. + 15221 | Pte. | Arthur, David. + 15222 | Pte. | Anderson, Matthew. + 15223 | Pte. | Anderson, Wm. + 15224 | Pte. | Aitkenhead, R.T. + 15225 | Pte. | Adam, Andrew Rolland. + 15226 | Pte. | Angus, L.S. + 15227 | Pte. | Allan, John. + 15228 | Pte. | Allan, Wm. Taylor. + 15229 | Pte. | Andrew, Wm. + 15230 | Pte. | Blair, David A. + +==========+=================+=============================== + Reg. No. | Rank. | Name. +----------+-----------------+------------------------------- + 15231 | Pte. | Binnie, Jas. W. + 15232 | Pte. | Brown, James. + 15233 | L.-Sergt. | Baxter, Alex. C. + 15234 | Pte. | Bates, John R. + 15235 | Pte. | Brown, Alex. + 15236 | Pte. | Barr, Rich. + 15237 | Pte. | Brown, T.J. + 15238 | Pte. | Booth, Charles. + 15239 | Pte. | Binnie, David W. + 15240 | Pte. | Barr, F.C.G. + 15241 | Pte. | Burgess, James. + 15242 | Pte. | Baxter, Wm. + 15243 | Pte. | Campbell, B. M'C. + 15244 | Pte. | Clark, J.N.P. + 15245 | Pte. | Calder, Alex. + 15246 | Sergt. | Cochrane, J.C. + 15247 | Pte. | Clark, James. + 15248 | Pte. | Cox, C. Wm. + 15249 | Pte. | Craig, R.B. + 15250 | Pte. | Campbell, E. + 15251 | L.-Cpl. | Cuthbert, Arthur. + 15252 | Pte. | Cunninghame, Douglas. + 15253 | L.-Cpl. | Coogan, Malcolm. + 15254 | Pte. | Cuthbert, J.C. + 15255 | L.-Cpl. | Chapman, John. + 15256 | Pte. | Crombie, James. + 15257 | Pte. | Caw, Wm. + 15258 | Pte. | Collins, A.E. + 15259 | Sergt. | Carnan, John. + 15260 | Pte. | Currie, Neil T. + 15261 | Pte. | Clark, Geo. + 15262 | Cpl. | Drever, Wm. + 15263 | Cpl. | Dobbie, Robt. Wm. + 15264 | L.-Sergt. | Douglas, John. + 15265 | Pte. | Donnelly, Wm. John. + 15266 | Pte. | Deans, Geo. W. + 15267 | L.-Cpl. | Dickson, Thomas P. + 15268 | Pte. | Dow, Samuel Hugh. + 15269 | L.-Cpl. | Dymock, H.M. + 15270 | Pte. | Dunlop, Robt. + 15271 | Pte. | White, T.W.D. + 15272 | Pte. | Davidson, Thomas Y. + +==========+=================+=============================== + Reg. No. | Rank. | Name. +----------+-----------------+------------------------------- + 15273 | L.-Cpl. | Drysdale, Alex. O. + 15274 | Sergt. | Drummond, Mark. + 15275 | Pte. | Dingwall, R. M'F. + 15276 | Pte. | Duncan, Robert G. + 15277 | Cpl. | Fleming, John. + 15278 | Pte. | Forrest, E. + 15279 | Pte. | Findlay, David. + 15280 | Pte. | Fortune, George R. + 15281 | Pte. | Finlinson, Arthur B. + 15282 | A/C.Q.M.S. | Ferguson, Alex. + 15283 | Pte. | Frew, James Allen. + 15284 | Pte. | Fraser, Alex. + 15285 | Pte. | Fraser, Donald. + 15286 | L.-Sergt. | Gowans, James. + 15287 | L.-Cpl. | Grigsby, A.H. + 15288 | Pte. | Gillespie, A.A. + 15289 | L.-Cpl. | Gannaway, George Edward. + 15290 | Pte. | Grigg, Stanley J. + 15291 | L.-Cpl. | Gill, John. + 15292 | Pte. | Goodall, Robert L. + 15293 | Pte. | Gemmel, Alex. + 15294 | L.-Cpl. | Glassford, Alex. S. + 15295 | L.-Cpl. | Griffiths, J.L. + 15296 | Pte. | Galloway, Charles. + 15297 | Pte. | Gardiner, William. + 15298 | Pte. | Gray, Alex. + 15299 | Pte. | Gudgeon, Thomas W. + 15300 | Pte. | Gibbon, Edward. + 15301 | Pte. | Graham, William R. + 15302 | Pte. | Gowans, Alex. + 15303 | L.-Cpl. | Haddow, Robert B. + 15304 | Pte. | Hovell, Alex. + 15305 | Pte. | Haddon, R. M'K. + 15306 | Pte. | Henderson, Robert. + 15307 | Pte. | Highet, Andrew. + 15308 | Pte. | Horsley, B.T. + 15309 | Pte. | Herbert, Peter C. + 15310 | L.-Cpl. | Hirst, George. + 15311 | Pte. | Hay, Neil T. + 15312 | Pte. | Hyslop, William. + 15313 | Pte. | Hubbard, William. + 15314 | Pte. | Hutchison, William Ramsay. + +==========+=================+=============================== + Reg. No. | Rank. | Name. +----------+-----------------+------------------------------- + 15315 | L.-Cpl. | Hutton, David. + 15316 | Pte. | Hagen, John. + 15317 | Pte. | Hunter, John Wilson. + 15318 | Pte. | Hay, John. + 15319 | Sergt. | Hamilton, John. + 15320 | Pte. | Hardie, Gordon D. + 15321 | Pte. | Herbert, Morris. + 15322 | Pte. | Hemphill, Archibald. + 15323 | Pte. | Johnston, Samuel. + 15324 | Pte. | Johnstone, Robert M. + 15325 | L.-Cpl. | Jackson, David. + 15326 | Pte. | Jarvie, William Robert. + 15327 | Pte. | Jackson, John A. + 15328 | Pte. | Johnstone, Kenneth. + 15329 | Pte. | Inglis, John. + 15330 | Pte. | Kelly, Thomas. + 15331 | Pte. | Liddell, George. + 15332 | Pte. | Livingstone, James H. + 15333 | Pte. | Lochhead, Robert Allan. + 15334 | Pte. | Lorimer, John William. + 15335 | Pte. | Livingston, Alex. Bryson. + 15336 | Pte. | Love, Robert. + 15337 | Pte. | Lyons, John M. + 15338 | Pte. | Morrison, James F. + 15339 | Pte. | Morrison, James Smith. + 15340 | Pte. | Miller, John. + 15341 | Pte. | Milne, William. + 15342 | L.-Cpl. | Murdoch, William. + 15343 | Pte. | Munro, Hector. + 15344 | Pte. | Muir, D.L. + 15345 | Pte. | Muir, Robert E.R. + 15346 | L.-Cpl. | M'Callum, Colin. + 15347 | Pte. | M'Aulay, Archibald. + 15348 | L.-Sergt. | M'Naught, James. + 15349 | Pte. | M'Millan, Daniel. + 15350 | Pte. | M'Kendrick, Alex. + 15351 | Sergt. | M'Letchie, John B. + 15352 | Pte. | M'Leod, Alex. G. + 15353 | Pte. | M'Murtrie, Dougald M'K. + 15354 | L.-Cpl. | M'Gregor, James R. + 15355 | Pte. | Macdonald, John Grant. + 15356 | Pte. | M'Neil, Joseph. + +==========+=================+=============================== + Reg. No. | Rank. | Name. +----------+-----------------+------------------------------- + 15357 | Pte. | McLauchlan, John H. + 15358 | Pte. | MacDougall, Duncan. + 15359 | Pte. | M'Taggart, Duncan. + 15360 | Pte. | M'Crone, Robert. + 15361 | Pte. | MacAllan, Thomas Alex. + 15362 | Pte. | M'Farlane, James. + 15363 | Pte. | M'Nair, Allan Gilmour. + 15364 | Pte. | M'Lean, Hugh. + 15365 | L.-Cpl. | M'Auslan, Alex. + 15366 | Pte. | M'Dougall, Peter. + 15367 | Sergt. | M'Taggart, William Kerr. + 15368 | Pte. | M'Neill, James. + 15369 | Pte. | M'Lachlan, Louis Alex. + 15370 | Pte. | M'Hugh, Matthew. + 15371 | Pte. | M'Vake, Robert. + 15372 | Pte. | M'Garrity, Michael. + 15373 | L.-Cpl. | M'Clusky, F. John. + 15374 | Pte. | M'Phail, John. + 15375 | Sergt. | M'Arthur, John M'L. + 15376 | Pte. | M'Naught, Duncan. + 15377 | Pte. | M'Neil, Charles M'G. + 15378 | Pte. | M'Corquodale, Archibald. + 15379 | Pte. | M'Meechan, David Cowan. + 15380 | Cpl. | M'Williams, J. + 15381 | Pte. | M'Culloch, George Neil. + 15382 | Sergt. | M'Gibbon, William. + 15383 | Pte. | Munro, Alex. M'L. + 15384 | Pte. | Miller, David. + 15385 | Pte. | Munro, John. + 15386 | Pte. | Morrison, Donald. + 15387 | L.-Cpl. | Marshall, Allan Gow. + 15388 | Pte. | Mailer, Andrew. + 15389 | Pte. | Murray, David. + 15390 | Pte. | Mowat, John Watt. + 15391 | Pte. | Morrison, Andrew. + 15392 | Pte. | Miller, James. + 15393 | Pte. | Maitland, William. + 15394 | Pte. | Millar, Angus. + 15395 | Cpl. | Miller, James. + 15396 | L.-Cpl. | Martin, David. + 15397 | Pte. | Morrison, Robert. + 15398 | Pte. | May, William Walker. + +==========+=================+=============================== + Reg. No. | Rank. | Name. +----------+-----------------+------------------------------- + 15399 | L.-Cpl. | Maxwell, Claude. + 15400 | Pte. | Meek, George. + 15401 | Pte. | Muir, James. + 15402 | Pte. | Milner, Thomas. + 15403 | L.-Sergt. | Milne, James Wallace. + 15404 | Sergt. | May, C.S. + 15405 | Pte. | Menzies, Peter D. + 15406 | Pte. | Orr, John Leslie. + 15407 | Pte. | Pinkerton, Gavin. + 15408 | Pte. | Paterson, Robert. + 15409 | Pte. | Philp, Robert C.P. + 15410 | Pte. | Paterson, John. + 15411 | Pte. | Pattison, Robert M'P. + 15412 | Pte. | Phillips, Alexander R.H. + 15413 | Pte. | Preston, William Parker. + 15414 | L.-Cpl. | Palmer, C.L. + 15415 | Sergt. | Ritchie, Thomas. + 15416 | L.-Cpl. | Robertson, George Tennant. + 15417 | Pte. | Ritchie, William. + 15418 | Sergt. | Robertson, John S. + 15419 | L.-Cpl. | Reid, Donald M. + 15420 | Pte. | Russell, William. + 15421 | Pte. | Roy, George Allan. + 15422 | Pte. | Ritchie, Robert F. + 15423 | Pte. | Rogers, David Anderson. + 15424 | Pte. | Russell, Samuel. + 15425 | L.-Cpl. | Rait, Patrick W. + 15426 | Pte. | Spence, Telford. + 15427 | Pte. | Slater, Albert Ernest. + 15428 | Pte. | Stuart, Charles M'D. + 15429 | Pte. | Scott, William James. + 15430 | Pte. | Somerville, James. + 15431 | Pte. | Struthers, Hugh E. + 15432 | Pte. | Scott, George K. + 15433 | Pte. | Stark, David. + 15434 | Pte. | Sutherland, Thomas N. + 15435 | Pte. | Scott, Joe. + 15436 | Pte. | Strachan, Andrew R. + 15437 | Cpl. | Scott, Archibald. + 15438 | Pte. | Stokes, Arthur C. + 15439 | Pte. | Swan, Allan. + 15440 | Pte. | Steel, W.P. + +==========+=================+=============================== + Reg. No. | Rank. | Name. +----------+-----------------+------------------------------- + 15441 | Pte. | Stewart, John C. + 15442 | Cpl. | Stevenson, John. + 15443 | Pte. | Scott, William. + 15444 | Pte. | Simpson, Walter. + 15445 | Pte. | Scott, William P. + 15446 | Pte. | Scott, Robert Neil. + 15447 | Pte. | Samuels, James M. + 15448 | Pte. | Small, Samuel. + 15449 | Sergt. | Sanders, Sydney T. + 15450 | Pte. | Thomson, John Hill. + 15451 | Pte. | Torrance, E. + 15452 | Cpl. | Timpson, Charles. + 15453 | Pte. | Thomson, James. + 15454 | Pte. | Thomson, David M. + 15455 | Sergt. | Thomson, H.W.H. + 15456 | Sergt. | Thomson, William James. + 15457 | Pte. | Turnbull, George King. + 15458 | Sergt. | Taylor, Herbert G. + 15459 | Pte. | Thom, Matthew F. + 15460 | L.-Sergt. | Taylor, David Alex. + 15461 | Pte. | Wark, James Allen. + 15462 | Pte. | Wallace, John. + 15463 | Pte. | Warnock, James. + 15464 | Sergt. | Watts, Frank M.W. + 15465 | Sergt. | Woyka, Alex. G. + 15466 | Cpl. | Wyman, Sydney. + 15467 | Sergt. | Wishart, Alfred. + 15468 | Pte. | Bruce, Thomas. + 15469 | Pte. | Webster, James. + 15470 | Sergt. | Watson, John. + 15471 | Pte. | Waterman, R. + 15472 | Pte. | Willock, Thos. B. + 15473 | Pte. | Wallace, Robert Kerr. + 15474 | Pte. | Young, William. + 15475 | Pte. | Young, Robert. + 15476 | Pte. | Finlayson, William Thomson. + 15477 | Pte. | Atkinson, William. + 15478 | Pte. | Alexander, W.M. + 15479 | Pte. | Alexander, Walter. + 15480 | Pte. | Angus, Thomas C. + 15481 | Cpl. | Abercromby, Archibald Alex. + 15482 | Pte. | Alston, James. + +==========+=================+=============================== + Reg. No. | Rank. | Name. +----------+-----------------+------------------------------- + 15483 | Pte. | Arbuckle, Alex. + 15484 | Pte. | M'Arthur, Alex. + 15485 | Sergt. | Angus, William Clark. + 15486 | Pte. | Atkins, William J.L. + 15487 | L.-Cpl. | Allan, James. + 15488 | Pte. | Andrews, Matthew M'Kay. + 15489 | Pte. | Biggs, Frank A. + 15490 | Pte. | Bennett, James S. + 15491 | Pte. | Crawford, Matthew. + 15492 | L.-Cpl. | Black, Alex. + 15493 | Pte. | Barron, John F. + 15494 | Pte. | Broadhead, John R. + 15495 | Pte. | Baxter, David John. + 15496 | Pte. | Ballantyne, Francis. + 15497 | Pte. | Burleigh, John. + 15498 | Pte. | Bryce, Thomas. + 15499 | Pte. | Barkley, Martin Bell. + 15500 | Pte. | Barclay, John. + 15501 | Pte. | Barton, Alex. Baird. + 15502 | Pte. | Broadhead, Alex. G. + 15503 | Pte. | Bailley, William N. + 15504 | Pte. | Brown, John M'D. + 15505 | Pte. | Barton, Robert L. + 15506 | Pte. | Borthwick, H.H. + 15507 | A/C.S.M. | Reith, Stephen D. + 15508 | Pte. | Bebbington, John Vernon. + 15509 | Pte. | Baird, H. Thompson. + 15510 | Pte. | Bruce, John Charles. + 15511 | Pte. | Provan, George. + 15512 | Pte. | Brooke, Robert L. + 15513 | Pte. | Buchanan, Robert W.H. + 15514 | Pte. | Buchanan, William. + 15515 | Pte. | Bailley, A.R. + 15516 | A/C.S.M. | Ballantyne, William N. + 15517 | Sergt. | Brown, William P. + 15518 | Cpl. | Brown, Robert S. + 15519 | Pte. | Cameron, Alexander. + 15520 | Sergt. | Drummond, William. + 15521 | Pte. | Drysdale, Alex. N. + 15522 | Pte. | Dobson, Edward. + 15523 | L.-Sergt. | Dunlop, James. + 15524 | L.-Cpl. | Carswell, John C. + +==========+=================+=============================== + Reg. No. | Rank. | Name. +----------+-----------------+------------------------------- + 15525 | Pte. | Duncan, Thomas. + 15526 | Pte. | Crockett, George P. + 15527 | L.-Cpl. | Callan, John. + 15528 | Pte. | Cameron, Malcolm C. + 15529 | Pte. | Cooper, William. + 15530 | Pte. | Craig, James M. + 15531 | Pte. | Cowan, John. + 15532 | Pte. | Carpenter, John M. + 15533 | Pte. | Curie, Robert. + 15534 | Pte. | Chalmers, Thomas M. + 15535 | L.-Sergt. | Cook, Thomas. + 15536 | Sig.-Cpl. | Craig, Thomas. + 15537 | Pte. | Fleming, Harry C. + 15538 | Pte. | M'Intyre, D.C. + 15539 | Pte. | Crombie, Robt. A. + 15540 | Pte. | Campbell, Thomas C. + 15541 | Pte. | Cross, Archibald David. + 15542 | Pte. | Cruickshank, Alex. A. + 15543 | Pte. | Channing, H.H. + 15544 | L.-Cpl. | Cullen, Matthew. + 15545 | Pte. | Campbell, William T. + 15546 | Pte. | Christison, Robert Colin. + 15547 | Cpl. | Crocker, John. + 15548 | Pte. | Cameron, Alex. C. + 15549 | Pte. | Cumming, A. Smith. + 15550 | L.-Sergt. | Cuthbertson, Charles S. + 15551 | Pte. | Craig, Thomas. + 15552 | L.-Cpl. | Craig, A.B. + 15553 | Pte. | Craig, John. + 15554 | L.-Cpl. | Crawford, Thomas. + 15555 | L.-Cpl. | Corbett, William S. + 15556 | Pte. | Crinean, Charles. + 15557 | Pte. | Carmichael, James A. + 15558 | Cpl. | Davidson, Albert. + 15559 | Cpl. | Davidson, John. + 15560 | Pte. | Dawes, Harry E. + 15561 | L.-Cpl. | Davie, Harry Craig. + 15562 | Pte. | Dunsmuir, A.G. + 15563 | Pte. | Dow, William John. + 15564 | Pte. | Dixon, Charles. + 15565 | Pte. | Dott, Robert Wilson. + 15566 | Cpl. | Erskine, Ralph. + +==========+=================+=============================== + Reg. No. | Rank. | Name. +----------+-----------------+------------------------------- + 15567 | Pte. | Elliot, James Kirk. + 15568 | Pte. | Elsworth, A.S. + 15569 | Sergt. | Ellery, Albert Charles. + 15570 | Pte. | Eggert, Walter. + 15571 | Pte. | Edmond, George G. + 15572 | Pte. | Fisher, Thomas C. + 15573 | Pte. | Fleming, John J. + 15574 | L.-Sergt. | Fraser, Samuel. + 15575 | Pte. | Fergus, Robert B. + 15576 | Pte. | Forrest, Archibald. + 15577 | Pte. | Frame, William D. + 15578 | Pte. | Foulger, Horace William. + 15579 | Pte. | Freeman, Michael. + 15580 | Pte. | Fraser, James W. + 15581 | Pte. | Fraser, Campbell N. + 15582 | Pte. | Follett, Arthur V. + 15583 | Pte. | Frame, Robert D. + 15584 | Pte. | Ferguson, Hume. + 15585 | Pte. | Freeland, Thomas S. + 15586 | Pte. | Fleming, Allan. + 15587 | Pte. | Falconer, J. Alex. + 15588 | L.-Sergt. | Fullerton, William L. + 15589 | Pte. | Flintoff, R. Alex. + 15590 | Pte. | Ford, William Graham. + 15591 | Pte. | Fraser, William Alex. + 15592 | Pte. | Finlayson, James. + 15593 | Pte. | Garrioch, Alex. + 15594 | L.-Cpl. | Gray, Donald. + 15595 | Pte. | Galloway, John H. + 15596 | L.-Cpl. | Greig, Gilbert. + 15597 | Pte. | Guthrie, Robert Yates. + 15598 | Pte. | Gauld, Ernest G. + 15599 | Pte. | Graham, Patrick H. + 15600 | Pte. | Graham, William. + 15601 | Pte. | Garrioch, J. M'K. + 15602 | Pte. | Graham, George. + 15603 | Pte. | Gilfillan, William. + 15604 | Pte. | Galt, Adam. + 15605 | Pte. | Gibson, Allan D. + 15606 | L.-Cpl. | Deans, A. Gibson. + 15607 | Pte. | Grandison, Arthur A. + 15608 | Pte. | Gemmell, A.S. + +==========+=================+=============================== + Reg. No. | Rank. | Name. +----------+-----------------+------------------------------- + 15610 | Pte. | Gray, Robert Love. + 15611 | Pte. | Hamilton, James. + 15612 | Pte. | Hutchison, George M'F. + 15613 | Pte. | Hall, David S. + 15614 | Pte. | Henderson, George G. + 15615 | L.-Cpl. | Hamilton, William. + 15616 | Pte. | Hamilton, Samuel. + 15617 | Pte. | Hamilton, William John. + 15618 | Pte. | Henderson, James. + 15619 | Pte. | Hutton, John Graham. + 15620 | Pte. | Haddow, John Haig. + 15621 | L.-Cpl. | Hunter, James Crawford. + 15622 | Pte. | Harper, John M. + 15623 | Pte. | Herron, William A. + 15624 | Pte. | Horne, Walter D. + 15625 | Pte. | Hamilton, William. + 15626 | Sergt. | Haft, Julian. + 15627 | Pte. | Houstoun, Alexander G. + 15628 | L.-Cpl. | Harvie, Alex. W. + 15629 | Cpl. | Hogg, William. + 15630 | Pte. | Hutchison, James M. + 15631 | Pte. | Hutcheson, Thomas. + 15632 | Pte. | Howie, Kenneth M. + 15633 | L.-Cpl. | Hamilton, J.F. + 15634 | Cpl. | Henderson, Robert. + 15635 | Pte. | Howie, John Love. + 15636 | Pte. | Haggerty, Thomas. + 15637 | Pte. | Imrie, Frank M. + 15638 | Pte. | Irvine, Alex. Garven. + 15639 | Pte. | Inrig, Alex. George. + 15640 | Pte. | Jenkins, John B. + 15641 | Pte. | Kean, James M'Lean. + 15642 | Pte. | Kinloch, Peter S. + 15643 | Pte. | Kerr, Andrew A. + 15644 | Pte. | Kinghorn, Arthur A.A. + 15645 | Pte. | Kennedy, James. + 15646 | L.-Cpl. | Keast, Norman R. + 15647 | Pte. | Knight, Alex. + 15648 | Cpl. | Kedslie, John Kay. + 15649 | Sergt. | Kennedy, David. + 15650 | L.-Cpl. | Lothian, William. + +==========+=================+=============================== + Reg. No. | Rank. | Name. +----------+-----------------+------------------------------- + 15651 | L.-Cpl. | Leask, Andrew D. + 15652 | Pte. | Munro, Thomas A. + 15653 | Cpl. | Miller, Alex. L. + 15654 | Pte. | Marr, James Scott. + 15655 | Cpl. | Lindsay, Douglas A.B. + 15656 | Pte. | Love, David A. + 15657 | Sergt. | Locking, Thomas P. + 15658 | Pte. | Lucas, Charles Walker. + 15659 | Pte. | Leckie, Robert G. + 15660 | Pte. | Laird, Arthur D. + 15661 | Pte. | Linn, William Gemmell. + 15662 | L.-Cpl. | Leishman, Thomas. + 15663 | Pte. | Livie, John Fletcher. + 15664 | Sergt. | Lang, Archibald. + 15665 | Pte. | Lindsay, John Caird. + 15666 | Pte. | Love, Alex. James. + 15667 | Pte. | Lawson, H. Gibson. + 15668 | Pte. | Levy, Barnet. + 15669 | Pte. | Locke, Norman. + 15670 | L.-Cpl. | Lees, Charles. + 15671 | L.-Cpl. | Moses, James. + 15672 | Pte. | Miller, Davie. + 15673 | Pte. | Maitland, Alex. M'Lean. + 15674 | L.-Cpl. | More, James. + 15675 | Pte. | Miller, George. + 15676 | Sergt. | Marshall, John. + 15677 | Sergt. | Maxwell, Joseph. + 15678 | Pte. | Murray, Charles De B. + 15679 | Pte. | Murray, Archibald William. + 15680 | Pte. | Miller, Archibald A. + 15681 | Pte. | Murdoch, Robert. + 15682 | L.-Cpl. | Mackin, Stephen James. + 15683 | Pte. | Moir, Alex. Hamilton. + 15684 | Pte. | Morton, John T.K. + 15685 | L.-Sergt. | Miller, James Alex. + 15686 | Cpl. | Murray, Thomas H. + 15687 | L.-Cpl. | Murdoch, Archibald. + 15688 | Pte. | Miller, Arthur T. + 15689 | Pte. | Melville, David W. + 15690 | Pte. | Mills, Duncan B. + 15691 | Pte. | Mills, David M'A. + 15692 | Sergt. | Morrison, Thomas E. + +==========+=================+=============================== + Reg. No. | Rank. | Name. +----------+-----------------+------------------------------- + 15693 | Pte. | Morton, Thomas I. + 15694 | Pte. | Miller, John. + 15695 | Pte. | Miller, Alex. Hume. + 15696 | Pte. | M'Naughton, Callum Arthur. + 15697 | Pte. | M'Millan, William A. + 15698 | L.-Cpl. | M'Gibbon, John. + 15699 | Pte. | M'Feat, Fred. + 15700 | Pte. | M'Aviney, James. + 15701 | Pte. | M'Lelland, George H. + 15702 | Sig.-Sergt. | M'Intosh, John R. + 15703 | Pte. | M'Gavin, Colin M'K. + 15704 | Pte. | MacMillan, Donald D. + 15705 | Pte. | M'Crae, James. + 15706 | Pte. | MacMillan, John. + 15707 | Pte. | Macdonald, James. + 15708 | L.-Cpl. | MacDougall, Charles S. + 15709 | Pte. | M'Connell, John L. + 15710 | Pte. | MacDougall, John A. + 15711 | Pte. | M'Donald, Duncan. + 15712 | Sergt. | MacMillan, Alex. + 15713 | Cpl. | M'Culloch, W. + 15714 | Pte. | M'Auley, Robert. + 15715 | Pte. | M'Nicol, James F. + 15716 | Pte. | M'Leod, Donald M'K. + 15717 | Cpl. | M'Arthur, Neil M'C. + 15718 | Pte. | M'Gee, Gilmour Brown. + 15719 | Pte. | M'Arthur, Hugh. + 15720 | Pte. | M'Intosh, Donald. + 15721 | Pte. | Clark, Robert O. + 15722 | Sergt. | M'Andrew, William. + 15723 | Pte. | Provan, George Weir. + 15724 | L.-Sergt. | M'Kenzie, E.P. + 15725 | Pte. | Bull, Harold. + 15726 | L.-Cpl. | Scott, W.P. + 15727 | Pte. | Grandison, William A. + 15728 | Pte. | M'Lintock, Hugh C. + 15729 | Pte. | Baird, John. + 15730 | L.-Cpl. | Young, John R. + 15731 | Pte. | Adamson, Thomas N. + 15732 | Pte. | Dawson, John. + 15733 | Pte. | M'Dougall, Alan. + 15734 | L.-Cpl. | Norris, James H. + +==========+=================+=============================== + Reg. No. | Rank. | Name. +----------+-----------------+------------------------------- + 15735 | Pte. | Neilson, William George. + 15736 | Pte. | Orr, Harry Ross. + 15737 | Pte. | Purdie, John D. + 15738 | Pte. | Paterson, G.K. + 15739 | Pte. | Pollock, William G. + 15740 | Pte. | Pearson, William L. + 15741 | Pte. | Younger, David G. + 15742 | L.-Cpl. | M'Rae, Donald. + 15743 | Pte. | MacGregor, William D. + 15744 | Pte. | Watson, William O. + 15745 | Pte. | Wilson, Allan Jackson. + 15746 | Pte. | Macpherson, Angus. + 15747 | Pte. | Mackinley, Alex. W. + 15748 | Sergt. | MacGregor, Fred. M. + 15749 | Pte. | M'Robbie, David H. + 15750 | Pte. | M'Houll, K. + 15751 | Pte. | M'Phail, Thomas W. + 15752 | L.-Cpl. | M'Intyre, James. + 15753 | L.-Cpl. | M'Gavin, N.P. + 15754 | Pte. | Paul, Robert M'L. + 15755 | L.-Cpl. | Pyper, Henry James. + 15756 | L.-Cpl. | Pickering, Robert Y. + 15757 | Pte. | Paterson, Robert. + 15758 | Pte. | Paterson, George M. + 15759 | Pte. | Purdie, William. + 15760 | Pte. | Robertson, William B. + 15761 | Pte. | Russell, H. M'P. + 15762 | Pte. | Rogerson, James Muir. + 15763 | Pte. | Rudd, David H. + 15764 | Pte. | Riley, Thomas D. + 15765 | Pte. | Rogerson, John Elliot. + 15766 | Pte. | Robertson, William Telfer. + 15767 | Pte. | M'Rorie, Robert. + 15768 | L.-Cpl. | Rolland, Charles D. + 15769 | Cpl. | Russell, Fred. Alex. + 15770 | Pte. | Rose, John Alex. + 15771 | Pte. | Ross, James. + 15772 | L.-Cpl. | Robertson, Robert Speirs. + 15773 | Pte. | Rankin, Colin. + 15774 | Pte. | Roper, William H. + 15775 | Cpl. | Roberts, John. + 15776 | Pte. | Robertson, David. + +==========+=================+=============================== + Reg. No. | Rank. | Name. +----------+-----------------+------------------------------- + 15777 | Pte. | Roxburgh, Thomas L. + 15778 | Pte. | Muir, Norman R. + 15779 | Pte. | Ritchie, Edgar. + 15780 | Pte. | Ritchie, William Stewart. + 15781 | Pte. | Reid, William Hamilton. + 15782 | Pte. | Spence, Donald W. + 15783 | A/C.S.M. | Sturton, James. + 15784 | Pte. | Smith, William Edward. + 15785 | Sergt. | West, John. + 15786 | Cpl. | Shannon, Andrew A. + 15787 | Pte. | Stark, Robert L. + 15788 | Pte. | Smellie, John. + 15789 | Pte. | Sprott, Samuel. + 15790 | Pte. | Stark, James T. + 15791 | Pte. | Steel, David F. + 15792 | Pte. | Sterling, John L. + 15793 | Pte. | Scouler, James Tott. + 15794 | Pte. | Sloan, Allan T. + 15795 | Pte. | Stewart, George R. + 15796 | Pte. | Stevenson, William. + 15797 | Pte. | Scott, Robert Spence. + 15798 | Cpl. | Stirling, Archibald B. + 15799 | Pte. | Stroud, E.H.N. + 15800 | L.-Cpl. | Smillie, James M'G. + 15801 | Pte. | Scott, Walter. + 15802 | Pte. | Stewart, Duncan H. + 15803 | Pte. | Taggart, Henry R. + 15804 | Pte. | Tough, Thomas S. + 15805 | L.-Sergt. | Thomson, James C. + 15806 | Cpl. | Terrie, Andrew Black. + 15807 | Pte. | Turnbull, Thomas. + 15808 | Pte. | Wood, Duncan B. + 15809 | Pte. | Warren, A.B. + 15810 | Pte. | Wurr, Herbert Joseph. + 15811 | Pte. | Walker, Norman M.L. + 15812 | Pte. | Wright, William B. + 15813 | Pte. | Wilson, James L. + 15814 | Pte. | Walker, Alexander. + 15815 | Pte. | White, John B. + 15816 | Pte. | Walker, Ernest G. + 15817 | Pte. | White, George. + 15818 | Pte. | Watson, Robert M'L. + +==========+=================+=============================== + Reg. No. | Rank. | Name. +----------+-----------------+------------------------------- + 15819 | L.-Sergt. | Wingate, James L. + 15820 | Pte. | Welsh, Thomas Morrison. + 15821 | Pte. | Wilson, A.K. + 15822 | Pte. | Westwater, Donald U. + 15823 | Pte. | Wilson, Henry. + 15824 | Pte. | Watson, William N. + 15825 | Pte. | Walker, George B. + 15826 | Pte. | Wilson, Robert C. + 15827 | L.-Cpl. | Waugh, Thomas. + 15828 | Pte. | Young, James B. + 15829 | Pte. | Young, John. + 15830 | Pte. | Yuill, L. + 15831 | Pte. | Young, Alex. + 15832 | L.-Sergt. | Anderson, Robert. + 15833 | Pte. | Allan, James. + 15834 | Pte. | Barbour, John. + 15835 | Pte. | Bowman, Joseph W. + 15836 | Pte. | Brown, J. Lindsay. + 15837 | Pte. | Baird, James. + 15838 | Pte. | Beckett, James R. + 15839 | L.-Cpl. | Brownlie, James M'H. + 15840 | Pte. | Carson, F.R. + 15841 | Sergt. | Cohen, Arthur M. + 15842 | Pte. | Cowley, Victor. + 15843 | Sergt. | Cowden, Alex. + 15844 | Pte. | Dixon, Wilfrid. + 15845 | C.S.M. | Dobbie, William. + 15846 | Pte. | Finlay, John. + 15847 | Pte. | Forrest, George. + 15848 | Pte. | Fulton, C.S. + 15849 | Trans. Sergt. | Fraser, Walter. + 15850 | Pte. | Graham, Alex. H. + 15851 | Pte. | Grant, Kenneth. + 15852 | Pte. | Gibb, Thomas. + 15853 | Pte. | Grassick, Charles A. + 15854 | Pte. | Haddow, Hugh P. + 15855 | Pte. | Hill, Sydney Thomas. + 15856 | Pte. | Holmes, James. + 15857 | Cpl. | Houston, William. + 15858 | Pte. | Inglis, Robert. + 15859 | Pte. | Jones, G. Philip. + 15860 | Pte. | Leask, Ralph. + +==========+=================+=============================== + Reg. No. | Rank. | Name. +----------+-----------------+------------------------------- + 15861 | Pte. | Leckie, Andrew. + 15862 | Pte. | Learmond, Victor. + 15863 | Pte. | Mackie, Robert Neil. + 15864 | L.-Cpl. | MacKay, John. + 15865 | Pte. | MacRobert, Harry. + 15866 | Sergt. | Mather, W. + 15867 | Pte. | Moreland, Joseph. + 15868 | Pte. | Millar, James. + 15869 | Pte. | Morton, James G. + 15870 | Pte. | M'Kenzie, M.A. + 15871 | Pte. | M'Kee, Robert. + 15872 | Pte. | M'Kelvie, Andrew. + 15873 | Pte. | M'Kinnon, Donald. + 15874 | Pte. | Palmer, Ernest. + 15875 | Sergt. | Paterson, Duncan. + 15876 | L.-Cpl. | Pyper, James F. + 15877 | Pte. | Reid, David. + 15878 | Pte. | Rhind, Andrew. + 15879 | Pte. | Richardson, James W. + 15880 | Pte. | Ritchie, John Allan. + 15881 | Pte. | Robertson, James. + 15882 | Pte. | Russell, George C. + 15883 | Pte. | Rutherford, Edward P. + 15884 | Cpl. | Cameron, David D. + 15885 | Pte. | Stewart, William. + 15886 | T./Sergt. | Summers, Alan Y. + 15887 | Pte. | Thomson, Robert. + 15888 | Sergt. | Turnbull, J.Y. + 15889 | Pte. | Watson, Alex. + 15890 | Pte. | Watson, Peter S. + 15891 | Pte. | Wood, John Hamilton. + 15892 | Pte. | Wilson, Robert B. + 15893 | Pte. | Ramage, Peter. + 15894 | Pte. | Stevens, Montague. + 15895 | Pte. | Mossman, William. + 15896 | L.-Cpl. | Wright, Colin S. + 15897 | Pte. | Harvey, Edward A. + 15898 | Pte. | Kirkpatrick, Arthur J. + 15899 | Pte. | Kie, George. + 15900 | Pte. | Walker, Thomas. + 15901 | Cpl. | Mann, R.G. + 15902 | Pte. | Meldrum, George. + +==========+=================+=============================== + Reg. No. | Rank. | Name. +----------+-----------------+------------------------------- + 15903 | Pte. | Hunter, Matthew C. + 15904 | Sergt. | Abercrombie, H. M'P. + 15905 | Pte. | Kelly, James. + 15906 | Pte. | Waugh, Robert. + 15907 | Pte. | Pettigrew, William. + 15908 | Pte. | Connell, Archibald. + 15909 | S./Sergt. | Duffus, Hugh W. + 15910 | Pte. | Baines, Donald. + 15911 | L.-Cpl. | Coltart, John S. + 15912 | Pte. | Hutchison, James. + 15913 | Pte. | Annand, James S. + 15914 | L.-Cpl. | M'Kenzie, Hugh F. + 15915 | Pte. | Guthrie, William. + 15916 | Cpl. | Steven, Alex. + 15917 | Pte. | Hoole, Roland Allan. + 15918 | Pte. | Duff, Robert. + 15919 | Pte. | M'Lean, Alex. + 15920 | Pte. | Paterson, J. + 15921 | Pte. | Maxwell, Herbert S. + 15922 | Pte. | Simpson, A.D.H. + 15923 | Pte. | MacFarlane, N. + 15924 | Pte. | Casey, George H. + 15925 | Pte. | Baillies, Oswald. + 15926 | Pte. | Nowery, Alex. F. + 15927 | L.-Cpl. | Thomson, Alex. D. + 15928 | Cpl. | Brackenridge, John. + 15929 | Pte. | Hutchison, Alfred. + 15930 | L.-Cpl. | Kunzle, Paul. + 15931 | L.-Cpl. | Nisbet, John D. + 15932 | Pte. | Taylor, Thomas T. + 15933 | Pte. | Long, Cunningham. + 15934 | Pte. | Wark, John. + 15935 | L.-Cpl. | Kerr, Robert. + 15936 | Pte. | Aitken, Wilfred. + 15937 | Cpl. | Farnell, Fred. + 15938 | Sergt. | Watson, Alex. G. + 15939 | Pte. | M'Lean, A. + 15940 | L.-Cpl. | Yuill, Andrew. + 15941 | Pte. | M'Culloch, Charles M. + 15942 | A/C.S.M. | Lochhead, Alex. W. + 15943 | Pte. | Glen, James. + 15944 | Pte. | Yates, Norman. + +==========+=================+=============================== + Reg. No. | Rank. | Name. +----------+-----------------+------------------------------- + 15945 | Cpl. | McNaught, John. + 15946 | Pte. | Whyte, Duncan. + 15947 | L.-Cpl. | Robertson, John. + 15948 | Sergt. | M'Call, William. + 15949 | Pte. | Vallance, Harold L. + 15950 | Pte. | Gray, James. + 15951 | Sergt. | Howard, John B.S. + 15952 | Pte. | Anderson, John William. + 15953 | Pte. | Brodie, Alex. + 15954 | Sergt. | Headrick, William Smith. + 15955 | A/C.S.M. | Tilley, Richard. + 15956 | Sergt. | Stewart, William S. + 15957 | Sergt. | Parker, James R. + 15958 | Pte. | Maconochie, William K. + 15959 | Sergt. | Ritchie, William F. + 15960 | Pte. | Kyle, John. + 15961 | L.-Sergt. | Hughes, Arthur. + 15962 | Pte. | Farish, Samuel. + 15963 | Pte. | Ritchie, Robert. + 15964 | L.-Sergt. | Osborne, John. + 15965 | Pte. | Kerr, John. + 15966 | Pte. | Gemmell, Norman L. + 15967 | Pte. | Grant, Alex. A. + 15968 | Pte. | Inglis, John James. + 15969 | L.-Cpl. | Turner, Elliot D. + 15970 | L.-Cpl. | Cunningham, Peter N. + 15971 | Pte. | Gilchrist, Thomas A. + 15972 | Sergt. | Wilson, A.P. + 15973 | L.-Cpl. | Dickson, William. + 15974 | Pte. | Orchardson, Archibald. + 15975 | L.-Cpl. | Watson, Andrew. + 15976 | Pte. | Thorburn, James. + 15977 | Pte. | Sharp, Alex. Thomas. + 15978 | Pte. | Hastings, Edward H. + 15979 | L.-Cpl. | Arthur, Charles F. + 15980 | Pte. | M'Ilwraith, James. + 15981 | L.-Sergt. | Pooley, R.S. + 15982 | Pte. | Campbell, Samuel. + 15983 | Pte. | M'Allan, John T. + 15984 | Sergt. | Lugton, G.D. + 15985 | Pte. | M'Walter, Thomas Scott. + 15986 | Pte. | Wood, John. + +==========+=================+=============================== + Reg. No. | Rank. | Name. +----------+-----------------+------------------------------- + 15987 | L.-Cpl. | Mackie, William R.N. + 15988 | Pte. | Pooley, Francis H. + 15989 | Sig.-Sergt. | Marshall, John H. + 15990 | Pte. | Pollock, James Watson. + 15991 | Pte. | MacKinnon, Robert A. + 15992 | Pte. | Reid, James William M. + 15993 | Pte. | Scott, James. + 15994 | Pte. | M'Veigh, Hugh. + 15095 | Pte. | Gregor, William. + 15996 | Pte. | Salmine, John. + 15997 | Pte. | Forsyth, Stewart. + 15998 | Cpl. | Walker, Robert. + 15999 | Pte. | M'Kenzie, John M. + 16000 | Pte. | Crosbie, Robert. + 16001 | Pte. | Boyd, William. + 16002 | Pte. | Main, John. + 16003 | Pte. | Cattell, Joseph. + 16004 | Pte. | Deans, John K. + 16005 | Pte. | Watt, Thomas S. + 16006 | Pte. | Kerr, John. + 16007 | Pte. | M'Lean, Norman. + 16008 | Pte. | Wood, David S. + 16009 | L.-Cpl. | Main, Samuel Hope. + 16010 | Pte. | M'Lintock, William. + 16011 | Cpl. | Brodie, James L. + 16012 | Pte. | Mason, George Bishop. + 16013 | Pte. | Mullan, William John + 16014 | Pte. | M'Donald, Robert Barr. + 16015 | L.-Cpl. | Turnbull, David. + 16016 | Pte. | Abrahamson, A. + 16017 | Pte. | Brownlee, George. + 16018 | Pte. | Hood, Robert. + 16019 | Sergt. | Wattie, Alex. + 16020 | Sergt. | Lee, Edward. + 16021 | Pte. | Kirk, Robert. + 16022 | Pte. | Cassels, Hugh L. + 16023 | Pte. | Maclagan, Douglas. + 16024 | L.-Cpl. | M'Allister, John. + 16025 | L.-Cpl. | Longmuir, Robert. + 16026 | Pte. | Keir, John A.L. + 16027 | Pte. | Blair, Fred. + 16028 | Pte. | Gemmell, Alex. + +==========+=================+=============================== + Reg. No. | Rank. | Name. +----------+-----------------+------------------------------- + 16029 | Pte. | Nixon, David. + 16030 | Pte. | Ritchie, William. + 16031 | Pte. | Dick, Andrew. + 16032 | Pte. | Kinnear, Ian F.G. + 16033 | Pte. | Morton, Alfred. + 16034 | L.-Cpl. | Paton, John. + 16035 | Pte. | Tait, William. + 16036 | Pte. | Ferguson, James. + 16037 | Pte. | Miller, Thomas. + 16038 | Pte. | Friend, Joseph. + 16039 | Pte. | Muirhead, John. + 16040 | Pte. | Young, George Graham. + 16041 | Pte. | Langlands, John F. + 16042 | Pte. | Lovat, M. + 16043 | Cpl. | Smith, A.W. + 16044 | Pte. | Harvey, Kenneth R. + 16045 | Pte. | Boyd, William. + 16046 | Pte. | Boyd, John. + 16047 | Pte. | Ramsay, George. + 16048 | Pte. | Morton, Thomas. + 16049 | Pte. | Johnston, James K. + 16050 | L.-Cpl. | Pickles, Frank. + 16051 | Pte. | Jackson, James. + 16052 | Pte. | Dalziel, William. + 16053 | Cpl. | Todd, James C. + 16054 | Pte. | Millar, John. + 16055 | Pte. | Cunningham, John. + 16056 | L.-Cpl. | Drennan, Andrew Adam. + 16057 | Pte. | Thomson, James M'K. + 16058 | Sergt. | Paterson, Walter A. + 16059 | Pte. | Ness, George. + 16060 | Pte. | Barrett, F.G. + 16061 | Pte. | Spiers, Alex. R. + 16062 | Pte. | Tait, William. + 16063 | Pte. | Anderson, Charles. + 16064 | Pte. | Hutton, James. + 16065 | Pte. | McLaughlin, William. + 16066 | Pte. | Higgins, Robert K. + 16067 | Pte. | M'Kenzie, Duncan M'R. + 16068 | Pte. | M'Lellan, John. + 16069 | Pte. | M'Rorie, William D. + 16070 | Pte. | Dickson, William. + +==========+=================+=============================== + Reg. No. | Rank. | Name. +----------+-----------------+------------------------------- + 16071 | Pte. | Miller, James. + 16072 | L.-Cpl. | Martin, George F. + 16073 | Pte. | Gardiner, Alex. + 16074 | Pte. | White, William Thomson. + 16075 | Pte. | Wood, Joe. + 16076 | Pte. | Wallace, Thomas. + 16077 | Pte. | M'Kenzie, Thomas D. + 16078 | Pte. | Adam, Andrew Ralston. + 16079 | Pte. | Kelly, James H. + 16080 | Pte. | Dunsmore, Thomas S. + 16081 | Pte. | Cameron, Arthur. + 16082 | Pte. | Lavelle, James. + 16083 | Pte. | Martin, Hugh Albert. + 16084 | Sergt. | Gilbert, Young. + 16085 | Pte. | Parker, William. + 16086 | Pte. | M'Ewan, Thomas W. + 16087 | Pte. | Fraser, William. + 16088 | Pte. | Rae, David. + 16089 | Pte. | Reid, David Boyd. + 16090 | Pte. | Scott, Alex. + 16091 | Pte. | Watt, William. + 16092 | Pte. | Hutchison, William. + 16093 | Cpl. | Thomson, William. + 16094 | Pte. | Findlay, John Walter. + 16095 | Pte. | Ross, John M. + 16096 | Pte. | Wright, William. + 16097 | Pte. | Allan, James. + 16098 | Pte. | Relton, Arthur N. + 16099 | Pte. | Adamson, Joseph. + 16100 | Cpl. | Dickson, John. + 16101 | Pte. | Clark, G. M'I. + 16102 | Pte. | Struthers, William. + 16103 | Pte. | Campbell, Stuart. + 16104 | Pte. | Cruickshank, J.C. + 16105 | Pte. | Johnstone, George. + 16106 | Pte. | Williamson, Andrew. + 16107 | Pte. | M'Intyre, James. + 16108 | Pte. | Grindlay, Charles Percy. + 16109 | Pte. | Wallace, William. + 16110 | Pte. | Boyd, John Shaw. + 16111 | Pte. | Campbell, John. + 16112 | Pte. | Mathieson, Stanley. + +==========+=================+=============================== + Reg. No. | Rank. | Name. +----------+-----------------+------------------------------- + 16113 | Pte. | M'Pherson, George L. + 16114 | Pte. | Kennedy, David. + 16115 | Pte. | Robertson, H. + 16116 | Pte. | Grierson, William Ian. + 16117 | Pte. | Rooney, Alex. + 16118 | Pte. | Fairfax, G.A.F. + 16119 | Pte. | Chalmers, Thomas. + 16120 | Pte. | Maxwell, Robert. + 16121 | Pte. | Beveridge, Erskine W. + 16122 | Pte. | Napier, John. + 16123 | Sergt. | Johnstone, S. + 16124 | Pte. | Kilcullen, Thomas. + 16125 | Pte. | Muil, Frank. + 16126 | Pte. | Napier, William. + 16127 | Pte. | M'Master, Alex. + 16128 | Pte. | Gibson, Thomas Bell. + 16129 | Pte. | Gregory, William. + 16130 | Pte. | Brunsdon, Henry George. + 16131 | Pte. | M'Gartland, Patrick. + 16132 | Sergt. | Beck, Andrew. + 16133 | Pte. | Tod, Frederick M.C. + 16134 | Pte. | Dunlop, William. + 16135 | Pte. | Kelly, Charles. + 16136 | Pte. | Kennedy, John. + 16137 | Pte. | Nicoll, George L. + 16138 | Pte. | Toole, James L. + 16139 | L.-Sergt. | Watson, Peter D. + 16140 | Pte. | M'Intyre, Archibald. + 16141 | Pte. | Graham, A.W.B. + 16142 | Pte. | Stubbs, James F. + 16143 | Pte. | Niven, John L.L. + 16144 | Pte. | Simpson, Donald. + 16145 | Pte. | M'Innes, Archibald C. + 16146 | Pte. | Milligan, Robert. + 16147 | Pte. | Williamson, Charles. + 16148 | Pte. | Mackay, Angus. + 16149 | L.-Cpl. | Thorburn, Henry. + 16150 | Pte. | Morrison, Charles H. + 16151 | Pte. | Archibald, Andrew. + 16152 | Pte. | Campbell, Andrew. + 16153 | Pte. | Morgan, John S. + 16154 | Pte. | Grassick, Henry J. + +==========+=================+=============================== + Reg. No. | Rank. | Name. +----------+-----------------+------------------------------- + 16155 | Pte. | Campbell, William. + 16156 | L.-Cpl. | M'Callum, Herbert L. + 16157 | Pte. | Ewing, John. + 16158 | Pte. | M'Lean, Angus. + 16159 | Pte. | Graham, W.F. + 16160 | Pte. | Hamilton, J. + 16161 | Pte. | Black, David S. + 16162 | Pte. | Cousland, Archibald. + 16163 | Pte. | Dunlop, Colin B. + 16164 | Pte. | Drew, George Millar. + 16165 | Pte. | Fotheringham, James R. + 16166 | Pte. | Kerr, John Galloway. + 16167 | Pte. | Oswald, Robert R. + 16168 | L.-Cpl. | Racionzer, J.L. + 16169 | Pte. | Sinclair, John F. + 16170 | Pte. | Black, Thomas. + 16171 | Pte. | Paterson, David. + 16172 | Pte. | Wilson, W.R. + 16173 | Pte. | Kay, James J. + 16174 | L.-Cpl. | Munro, Ronald. + 16175 | Pte. | Liston, John. + 16176 | Pte. | Paton, Robert. + 16177 | L.-Cpl. | Spence, John George. + 16178 | Pte. | Thomson, Ernest. + 16179 | Cpl. | Barrie, Alex. + 16180 | Pte. | Aitken, Robert. + 16181 | Pte. | Dewar, J.F. + 16182 | Pte. | Henderson, Hugh. + 16183 | Pte. | Lane, Andrew. + 16184 | Pte. | M'Dougall, David. + 16185 | Pte. | Deacon, R.E. + 16186 | Pte. | Stroud, Archibald William. + 16187 | Pte. | Brown, Archibald. + 16188 | Pte. | Manson, William. + 16189 | L.-Sergt. | Robertson, Alexander Y. + 16190 | Pte. | Gauld, Andrew. + 16191 | Pte. | Imrie, William. + 16192 | Pte. | M'Killop, Hugh. + 16193 | Pte. | Porter, John. + 16194 | Pte. | Sanderson, John T. + 16195 | Cpl. | Andrews, John. + 16196 | Pte. | Smith, James. + +==========+=================+=============================== + Reg. No. | Rank. | Name. +----------+-----------------+------------------------------- + 16197 | Pte. | Waters, Robert R. + 16198 | Pte. | Watson, William. + 16199 | Pte. | Davies, Howard L. + 16200 | Pte. | Thomson, George. + 16201 | L.-Cpl. | Whiteford, Thomas R. + 16202 | Pte. | Aitken, Thomas. + 16203 | Pte. | Wood, Alex. + 16204 | L.-Cpl. | Law, Robert. + 16205 | Pte. | Thomson, John. + 16206 | Pte. | Park, R. + 16207 | Pte. | Ferguson, Robert. + 16208 | Pte. | Hutcheson, William J.F. + 16209 | Pte. | Gardner, H.A. + 16210 | Pte. | Robertson, W.B. + 16211 | Pte. | Walker, Arthur P. + 16212 | Pte. | Miller, Alex. S. + 16213 | Pte. | Scott, Charles R.G. + 16214 | L.-Cpl. | Kemp, Archibald J. + 16215 | Pte. | Ewing, George H. + 16216 | Pte. | Harper, Alex. C. + 16217 | Pte. | Henderson, James. + 16218 | Pte. | Hill, Archibald. + 16219 | Pte. | Dempster, G.C. + 16220 | Pte. | Taylor, Matthew. + 16221 | Pte. | Adam, John L. + 16222 | Pte. | Biggart, John. + 16223 | Pte. | M'Leod, Angus. + 16224 | Pte. | Reid, Archibald M. + 16225 | Pte. | Allan, Hugh Robert. + 16226 | Pte. | Crowley, John. + 16227 | Pte. | Hawthorn, Charles. + 16228 | Pte. | Miller, William. + 16229 | Pte. | Herring, Frank M. + 16230 | L.-Cpl. | Barrie, George Alston. + 16231 | Pte. | Struth, James S. + 16232 | Pte. | Ward, William Allan. + 16233 | Pte. | Ross, David. + 16234 | Pte. | Walker, Roderick. + 16235 | Pte. | Carmichael, Duncan. + 16236 | Pte. | Hamilton, Arthur. + 16237 | Pte. | Dodds, James. + 16238 | Pte. | M'Millan, John A. + +==========+=================+=============================== + Reg. No. | Rank. | Name. +----------+-----------------+------------------------------- + 16239 | Pte. | Fearby, John E. + 16240 | L.-Cpl. | Okell, Cyril. + 16241 | Pte. | Mathieson, Alex. + 16242 | Pte. | M'Ewan, Malcolm W. + 16243 | L.-Cpl. | Mair, William Craig. + 16244 | L.-Cpl. | Macdonald, John. + 16245 | Pte. | Dickie, William. + 16246 | Pte. | Hyslop, John. + 16247 | Pte. | Miller, Kenneth S. + 16248 | Pte. | Laing, John. + 16249 | Pte. | Watt, Edwin. + 16250 | Pte. | Levey, Jack. + 16251 | Pte. | Carmichael, Archibald. + 16252 | Pte. | Cree, Walter Hill. + 16253 | Pte. | Bennett, David. + 16254 | Pte. | Coats, Thomas. + 16255 | Pte. | Thomson, Robert W. + 16256 | Pte. | Mitchell, C.H. + 16257 | Pte. | Powell, James E.L. + 16258 | Pte. | Andrew, John. + 16259 | Pte. | Mowat, Alex. + 16260 | Pte. | Gardner, James. + 16261 | Pte. | Thistle, Robert James. + 16262 | Pte. | Macaulay, William. + 16263 | Pte. | Gemmell, Allan. + 16264 | Pte. | Miller, John F. + 16265 | L.-Cpl. | Hall, Robert. + 16266 | Pte. | M'Queen, John Duff. + 16267 | Pte. | Aird, Allan Muir. + 16268 | Pte. | Hayes, John T. + 16269 | Pte. | Stewart, C. Campbell. + 16270 | Pte. | Campbell, Jack M'N. + 16271 | Pte. | M'Nair, Thomas. + 16272 | Pte. | Chisholm, Alex. + 16273 | Pte. | Robertson, William P. + 16274 | L.-Cpl. | Anderson, John S. + 16275 | Pte. | Russell, Hugh Ramsay. + 16276 | Pte. | Carmichael, Hugh H. + 16277 | L.-Cpl. | Neary, Thomas. + 16278 | Pte. | Thomson, Adam John. + 16279 | Pte. | King, John W. + 16280 | Pte. | Neilson, George. + +==========+=================+=============================== + Reg. No. | Rank. | Name. +----------+-----------------+------------------------------- + 16281 | Pte. | Simpson, John + 16282 | Pte. | Barbour, James. + 16283 | Pte. | Anderson, John. + 16284 | Pte. | Peters, David. + 16285 | Pte. | Jamieson, George William. + 16286 | Pte. | Wilson, Thomas. + 16287 | Pte. | Morrison, Adam C. + 16288 | Pte. | Kerr, John. + 16289 | Pte. | Anderson, James. + 16290 | Pte. | Wilson, John. + 16291 | Pte. | Laird, William. + 16292 | Pte. | Parker, William. + 16293 | Pte. | Murray, William. + 16294 | Pte. | Andrew, Donald. + 16295 | Pte. | Glover, Victor. + 16296 | Pte. | Armour, Andrew. + 16297 | Pte. | M'Dowell, John. + 16298 | Pte. | Caldwell, Richard T. + 16299 | Pte. | Smith, William. + 2684 | Pte. | Simpson, George P. + 2685 | Pte. | Robertson, David M. + 2686 | Pte. | Harris, Ernest. + 2687 | Pte. | Burleigh, F.S. + 2688 | Pte. | Watson, Joseph. + 2689 | Pte. | Sinclair, George. + 2690 | Pte. | Watson, Stanley M.W. + 2691 | Pte. | Miller, James. + 2692 | Pte. | Nicol, William Kerr. + 2693 | Pte. | King, William. + 2694 | Pte. | M'Culloch, Walter. + 2695 | Pte. | Park, Matthew. + 2696 | Pte. | Murdoch, James. + 2697 | Pte. | Laverty, Henry. + 2698 | Pte. | Jordan, Harold W. + 2699 | Pte. | Johnston, James + 2700 | Pte. | Swan, James. + 2701 | Pte. | Colvil, Harold C. + 2702 | Pte. | Hendry, H.G. + 2703 | Pte. | Heaverman, Walter E. + 2704 | Pte. | Yates, Robert. + 2705 | Pte. | Whytock, James. + 2706 | L.-Cpl. | M'Munn, James. + +==========+=================+=============================== + Reg. No. | Rank. | Name. +----------+-----------------+------------------------------- + 2707 | Pte. | M'Knight, James. + 2708 | Pte. | Carswell, James. + 2709 | Pte. | Sinclair, George. + 2710 | Pte. | Taylor, Hugh B. + 2711 | Pte. | Bennet, James. + 2712 | Pte. | Laing, Robert M'L. + 2713 | Pte. | Johnston, William E. + 2714 | L.-Cpl. | Gilchrist, James. + 2715 | Pte. | Scott, H. Fred. + 2716 | Pte. | Neish, Alexander M. + 2717 | Pte. | Robertson, James C. + 2718 | Pte. | Gilmour, Murray. + 2719 | Pte. | M'Innes, Duncan. + 2720 | Pte. | M'Kinnon, Robert B. + 2721 | L.-Cpl. | Craig, Robert. + 2722 | Pte. | Hutton, George L. + 2723 | Pte. | Montgomery, Andrew D. + 2724 | Pte. | Killin, William. + 2725 | Pte. | Ramage, John. + 2726 | L.-Cpl. | Henderson, James G. + 2727 | Pte. | Glennie, William. + 2728 | Pte. | Mackie, John B. + 2729 | Pte. | Gemmell, Charles S. + 2730 | Pte. | Herbert, Robert. + 2731 | Pte. | Niven, A.C.L. + 2732 | Pte. | Brown, A.G. + 2733 | Pte. | Paterson, William. + 2734 | Pte. | Young, James. + 2735 | Pte. | Young, Robert. + 2736 | Pte. | Scott, Robert. + 2737 | Pte. | Stewart, Daniel. + 2738 | Pte. | Preston, James. + 2739 | L.-Cpl. | Lindsay, Matthew. + 2740 | Pte. | Finlay, James G. + 2741 | Pte. | Mitchell, Robert C. + 2742 | Pte. | Taylor, John. + 2743 | Pte. | M'Ilvaney, James. + 2744 | Pte. | Hunter, John C. + 2745 | Pte. | Grant, Douglas. + 2746 | Pte. | Smith, D.F. + 2749 | Pte. | Fulton, Archibald H. + 2750 | Pte. | Garner, Robt. K. + +==========+=================+=============================== + Reg. No. | Rank. | Name. +----------+-----------------+------------------------------- + 2751 | Pte. | Grant, Alastair M. + 2752 | Pte. | Howieson, Peter. + 2753 | Pte. | Kidd, Thomas B. + 2754 | Pte. | Lochhead, James. + 2755 | Pte. | Ovenstone, James. + 2756 | Pte. | Owen, George. + 2757 | Pte. | Russell, George. + 2758 | C.Q.M.S. | Scott, William. + 2759 | Pte. | Smith, Ernest M. + 2760 | Pte. | Wright, John. + 2761 | Pte. | Jaffrey, William. + 2762 | Pte. | Hardie, John. + 2763 | Pte. | Tennant, Archibald A. + 2764 | Pte. | O'Beirne, Thomas. + 2765 | Pte. | Wilkie, Robert James D. + 2766 | Pte. | Goodfellow, James. + 2767 | Pte. | Bain, Bruce. + 2768 | Pte. | Blakely, John. + 2769 | Pte. | Millar, H.S.M. + 2770 | Pte. | Wright, William. + 2771 | Pte. | Waddell, John. + 2772 | Pte. | Gemmell, Hugh K. + 2773 | Pte. | M'Creath, David. + 2774 | Pte. | Forsyth, George S. + 2775 | Pte. | Stewart, Donald. + 2776 | Pte. | Mackie, James. + 2777 | Pte. | Hamilton, Andrew. + 2778 | Pte. | M'Farlane, William. + 2779 | Pte. | Currie, James. + 2780 | Pte. | Craig, Thomas L.M. + 2781 | Pte. | M'Nidder, Alex. 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