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Title: With a Highland Regiment in Mesopotamia
1916--1917

Author: Anonymous

Release Date: July 19, 2007 [EBook #22103]

Language: English

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WITH A HIGHLAND

REGIMENT IN MESOPOTAMIA

[Illustration: General Sir Stanley Maude And His Staff, Baghdad, 1917.
_Frontispiece._]

WITH A
HIGHLAND REGIMENT
IN MESOPOTAMIA

1916-1917

BY
ONE OF ITS OFFICERS

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.

AUTHOR'S NOTE.

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