the author on his story. If others read it with the same interest and
enjoyment with which it has filled me, I can only think that the
author's labours have not been in vain.

Further, may these remarks go forth, not only as a token to my old
friends of the 14th Battalion The Royal Highlanders, of the
admiration, affection, and gratitude of their old Commander, but to
the whole of Scotland as a tribute to the memory of those good and
gallant comrades of the "Broken Spur" whom we left behind in foreign
lands.

ERIC S. GIRDWOOD,

_(late) Major-General,
Commanding 74th (Yeomanry) Division._

PORTSMOUTH,
_20th August 1921_.




INTRODUCTION


This short history, written by request, was started shortly after the
Regiment was disbanded. For the delay in publishing it, I must plead
the great mass of inaccuracies which had to be corrected and verified,
entailing a considerable amount of correspondence and consequent lapse
of time. It has been compiled from Official Diaries and Forms, and