will,
And mortals must their destiny fulfill.

J.A. CURRIE, M.P.,
_Colonel_.

CONTENTS

PAGE

Preface 9

CHAPTER I
Kilties in Canada 11

CHAPTER II
"The Red Watch" or 48th Highlanders 18

CHAPTER III
The Newer Colonial Policy 22

CHAPTER IV
The Call to Arms 28

CHAPTER V
Organizing Imperial Battalions 37

CHAPTER VI
The New Armada 46

CHAPTER VII
Salisbury and the Stones of Stonehenge 63

CHAPTER VIII
Under Field Marshal Earl Roberts 72

CHAPTER IX
Moulding an Army 81

CHAPTER X
His Majesty the King, and Field Marshal the Right
Hon. Viscount Kitchener 90

CHAPTER XI
Off for France 100

CHAPTER XII
Somewhere in Flanders 112

CHAPTER XIII
With Field Marshal Sir John French 116

CHAPTER XIV
Under Hiex Shells 122

CHAPTER XV
The Flare-lit Trenches of Fromelles 132

CHAPTER XVI
With General Sir Douglas Haig 146

CHAPTER XVII
The Battle of Neuve Chapelle 155

CHAPTER XVIII
Billets and Bivouacs 174

CHAPTER XIX
With General Sir Horace Smith-Dorrien 182

CHAPTER XX
The Historic Salient at Ypres 189

CHAPTER XXI
The Red Cock Crows 197

CHAPTER XXII
German Gas and Turcos 204

CHAPTER XXIII
The Battle of St. Julien 216

CHAPTER XXIV
Hanging on 228

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