With a Highland Regiment in Mesopotamia / 1916—1917

GENERAL SIR STANLEY MAUDE AND HIS STAFF, BAGHDAD, 1917. Frontispiece.
BOMBAY THE TIMES PRESS 1918
TO THE CHILDREN OF THE OFFICERS AND MEN OF THE —— REGIMENT
BRIEFLY DESCRIBING THE DOINGS OF THE 2ND BATTALION IN MESOPOTAMIA WRITTEN SO THAT THEY MAY NOT FORGET THE HARDSHIPS ENDURED AND THE SACRIFICES WHICH HAVE BEEN MADE ON THEIR BEHALF 1916-1917.
In writing this short account of the 2nd Battalion in Mesopotamia, my aim has not been to write a military history of all that was achieved; that will be the task of some one more competent to judge of merits and demerits than myself. My object has been to give an account in simple language of the two years spent by the Battalion in the Iraq, so that the children of the men of the regiment may know of the brave deeds and the hardships cheerfully borne on their behalf.
Two articles describing our last two battles are here reprinted with the permission of Brigadier-General A. G. Wauchope, from whom I have also received many details of our earlier fights, and I am also indebted for information to Captains J. Macqueen, W. E. Blair, W. A. Young, Sergeant-Major W. S. Clark, and other officers of the Battalion.
Mesopotamia, October, 1917.
Telegram from
HIS MAJESTY THE KING.
Received by Colonel A. G. Wauchope, D.S.O., Commanding, 2nd Battalion—January 1917.
I thank you, Officers, Non-Commissioned Officers and men, for the card of New Year's greetings.