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OFFICERS AT FAKENHAM, 1915.ToList
Back Row (left to right).—Lt. Smith, Lt. Rigg, Lt. Hutchison, Lt.Herdman. Lt. Gray, Lt. Stewart, Lt. Marshall, Lt. Lindsay, Lt.Robertson, Capt. Osborne, Lt. Don, Lt. Cummins, Capt. Mitchell, Capt.Ogilvie. Capt. Tuke, Major De Prée, Major Gilmour, Lt.-Col. Mitchell,Capt. Lindsay, Major Younger, Major Nairn. Lt. Nairn, Lt. Andrew, Lt.Sir W. Campbell, Lt. Inglis.
Frontispiece
THE FIFE ANDFORFAR YEOMANRY
And 14th (F. & F. YEO.) BATTN. R.H.
1914-1919
MAJOR-GENERAL E.S. GIRDWOOD, C.B., C.M.G.
Lately G.O.C. 74th (Yeomanry) Division
JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET
1921
FOREWORD
Major Ogilvie has done me the honour of asking me to write a shortpreface to a work which to me is of peculiar interest.
To write a preface—and especially a short one—is a somewhatdifficult task, but my intense pride in, and admiration for, the partplayed by the Battalion with which the gallant author was so long andhonourably associated must be my excuse for undertaking to do my best.
From his stout record as a soldier the author’s qualifications towrite this history are undoubted. His readers will be able to followfrom start to glorious finish of the Great War the fortunes of thatgallant little band of Fife and Forfar Yeomen who ultimately becamethe 14th (Fife and Forfar Yeomanry) Battalion The Royal Highlanders.
There was little of moment in the operations of the EgyptianExpeditionary Force in which this unit did not take part. In diverstheatres of war they answered the call of Empire—from Gallipoli toJerusalem, from Jerusalem to France—ever upholding the honour oftheir King and Country and the best traditions of the British Army.
[vi]No matter what by-path of the Great War they trod they bore themselveswith the undaunted spirit of their forefathers.
The experiences of the Battalion were so full of interest as to seemwell worth placing on record—quite apart from the military importanceof the operations in which they were concerned.
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