emarks of mine, let me congratulate
the author on his story. If others read it with the same interest and
enjoyment with which it has filled me, I can only think that the
author's labours have not been in vain.

Further, may these remarks go forth, not only as a token to my old
friends of the 14th Battalion The Royal Highlanders, of the
admiration, affection, and gratitude of their old Commander, but to
the whole of Scotland as a tribute to the memory of those good and
gallant comrades of the "Broken Spur" whom we left behind in foreign
lands.

ERIC S. GIRDWOOD,

_(late) Major-General,
Commanding 74th (Yeomanry) Division._

PORTSMOUTH,
_20th August 1921_.

INTRODUCTION

This short history, written by request, was started shortly after the
Regiment was disbanded. For the delay in publishing it, I must plead
the great mass of inaccuracies which had to be corrected and verified,
entailing a considerable amount of correspondence and consequent lapse
of time. It has been compiled from Official Diaries and Forms, and
from a Diary kept by Lieut.-Colonel J. Younger, D.S.O., without whose
assistance it would never have been completed.

It will, however, recall to the reader's mind the strenuous and
eventful days we spent together in a regiment of whose history we are
all so justly proud, and whose career now as a Yeomanry Regiment is
ended, and it will recall the gallant fellows with whom we served and
many a gallant deed.

To the glorious memory of those whose graves lie in a foreign land, I
humbly dedicate this book.

D. DOUGLAS OGILVIE.

_April 1920._

CONTENTS

CHAP. PAGE

I. AT HOME--1914-1915 1

II. ABROAD--1915 9

III. EGYPT--1916 30

LIST OF OFFICERS 40

IV. EGYPT AND PALESTINE--1917 41

V. PALESTINE--1918 107

VI. FRANCE--1918 119

VII. SOME PERSONALITIES 143

VIII. THE PREDECESSORS OF THE FIFE AND FORFAR YEOMANRY 159

HONOURS AND AWARDS 165

LIST OF CASUALTIES 168

INDEX