14 by a London Rifle Brigade
team, under Captain Husey and Lieutenant Large, in the record time of 14
hrs. 23 min. The war has not given any other battalion a chance to lower
the latter record, and it will assuredly take "some doing."

PART II.

[Sidenote: =Mobilisation.=]

The Battalion mobilised on the outbreak of war. It had actually gone
into camp at Eastbourne, but was brought back to London within a few
hours of its arrival.

A second and third Battalion were soon formed. (See pp. 30, 31.)

FIRST BATTALION.

Making stays of varying duration en route at Wimbledon, Hersham, and
Bisley (for three weeks), the 1st Battalion finally reached Crowborough,
where it remained under canvas until ordered abroad.

It embarked on November 4th, 1914. The following were the officers:--

Lieut.-Col. W. D. Earl Cairns (Commanding).

Lieut.-Col. (Hon. Col.) C. G. R. Matthey, V.D.
(Second-in-Command).

Major.--N. C. King, T.D.

Captains.--A. S. Bates, M. H. Soames, R. H. Husey,
C. H. F. Thompson, H. F. MacGeagh, J. R.
Somers-Smith, A. L. Lintott, and Hon. Major C. D.
Burnell.

Lieutenants.--R. E. Otter, J. G. Robinson, G. H.
Morrison, E. L. Large, P. A. Slessor, H. B. Price,
A. G. Kirby, G. H. Cholmeley.

Second-Lieutenants.--K. Forbes, G. H. G. M.
Cartwright, W. L. Willett, H. L. Johnston, C. W.
Trevelyan, H. G. Vincent, G. E. S. Fursdon, G. C.
Kitchin.

Adjutant.--Captain A. C. Oppenheim, K.R.R.C.

Quartermaster.--Lieutenant J. R. S. Petersen.

Medical Officer.--Major A. D. Ducat, T.D.

The following short account is written in constant remembrance of the
censorship regulations, and with a view to giving a faint outline of its
doings to those who were not out with the 1st Battalion in France. It
will be an aid to memory to those who were with it, and are fortunate in
being able to look back on a time when the 1st Battalion undoubtedly
reached its zenith.

Never can any Battalion of the Regiment be better than was the 1st
London Rifle Brigade in 1914-15. That all will endeavour to be as good
is quite certain.

[Sidenote: =1914. Nov. 5th.=]

The Battalion arrived in France. Disembarkation was a tedious business,
and the progress through the town to the rest camp at the top of the
hill was one of the worst forms of rout