Scot were
often found at Kodish and Toulgas and on the Onega sharing privations
and meagre luxuries of tobacco and food with their recently made friends
among the Yanks.

And in the winter the Yorks at several places stood shoulder to shoulder
with doughboys on hard-fought lines. Friendships were started between
Yanks and Yorks as in the fall they had grown between Frenchies and
Americans, Scots and Yanks, and Liverpools and Detroiters. Bitter
fighting on a back-to-the-wall defense had brought the English and
American officers together also. Arrogance and antipathy had both
dissolved largely in the months of joint military operations and better
judgment and kinder feelings prevailed. Grievances there are many to be
recalled. And they were not all on one side. But except as they form
part of the military narrative with its exposure of causes and effects
in the fall and winter and spring campaigns, those grievances may mostly
be buried. Rather may we remember the not infrequent incidents of
comradeship on the field or in lonely garrison that brightened the
relationships between Scots and Yorks and Marines and Liverpools in
Khaki on the one hand and the O. D. cousins from over the sea who were
after all not so bad a lot, and were willing to acknowledge merit in the
British cousin.

It must be said that Canadians, Scots, Yorks and Tommies stood in about
this order in the affections of the Yankee soldiers. The boys who fought
with support of the Canadian artillery up the rivers know them for hard
fighters and true comrades. And on the railroad detachment American
doughboys one day in November were glad to give the Canadian officer
complimentary present-arms when he received his ribbon on his chest,
evidence of his election to the D. S. O., for gallantry in action.
Loyally on many a field the Canadians stood to their guns till they were
exhausted, but kept working them because they knew their Yankee comrades
needed their support.

One of the pictures in this volume shows a Yank and a Scot together
standing guard over a bunch of Bolshevik prisoners at a point up the
Dvina River. American doughboys risked their lives in rescuing wounded
Scots and the writer has a vivid remembrance of seeing a fine expression
of comradeship between Yanks and Scots and American sailors starting off
on a long, dangerous march.

Mention has been made in another connection of the friendship and
admiration of the American soldiers for the men of