N, 19

LIEUT.-COLONEL DAVID S. MORTON, V.D., C.M.G., 20, 35

ON THE SEA FRONT AT TROON--LEAVING TROON, 20

MESS ORDERLIES (PREES HEATH CAMP)--"GUARD, TURN OUT"
(WENSLEY CAMP), 21

A PEACEFUL BIVOUAC (SALISBURY PLAIN)--RECRUITING MARCH
AT CODFORD, 22

OFFICERS OF THE BATTALION AT MAR LODGE, TROON, 1915, 24

VISIT OF THE DIRECTORS OF THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, TROON,
1915 25

THE BATTALION ON PARADE, 26

HAVRE--RUINS OF BETHUNE, 28

THE CATHEDRAL, ALBERT--BEFORE AND AFTER BOMBARDMENT, 34

MAP ILLUSTRATING OPERATIONS OF 1ST JULY, 1916, 40

VIEW FROM BOUZINCOURT LOOKING TOWARDS THE LINE, 44

COOKHOUSE AT BECOURT--OBSERVATION POST, HULLUCH
SECTOR--WAR'S DESTRUCTION, 50

LIEUT.-COLONEL W.J. PAUL, 51

LIEUT.-COLONEL J. INGLIS, C.M.G., D.S.O., 60

TYPES OF SUPPORT LINE DUG-OUTS AND FIRST AID POST, 68

MAJOR THE REV. A. HERBERT GRAY--CHURCH PARADE (PREES HEATH), 76

PHASES OF BATTALION TRAINING, 77

"THE OUTPOST" STAFF ON ACTIVE SERVICE--ORIGINAL EDITORIAL
STAFF, 81

THE LATE STEVEN D. REITH, D.C.M.--LCE.-CORPL. F.K. PICKLES, 82

MARGUS, THE MASCOT--ONE OF THE BATTALION RUGBY FOOTBALL
TEAMS, 83

LIEUT. AND Q.-M. (FORMERLY REGIMENTAL-SERGEANT-MAJOR) JAMES
KELLY, 84

MRS. DAVID S. MORTON, CONVENER OF THE COMFORTS COMMITTEE, 85

LIEUT.-COLONEL W. AULD, V.D., 90

THE LATE LIEUT.-COLONEL WILLIAM HERBERT ANDERSON, V.C.,
AND SERGEANT J.Y. TURNBULL, V.C., 91

"_They ask a better Britain as their monument._"

I.--FORMATION AND HOME TRAINING.

THE NATION'S CALL TO ARMS.

Great Britain declared war on Germany on August 4th, 1914, and almost
immediately the combatant strength of its Regular Army was on service
and the great bulk of that gallant force engaged in those fierce
actions against odd