hem--they made a road for themselves as they went along, and always
seemed to get there.

That finished our 1916 campaign against the Senussi--the I.C.C. were
relieved by a London Yeomanry Company of the I.C.C, and later on some
Gyppy Cavalry went out and garrisoned Dakhla Oasis.

On 13th November the Regiment started in relays by train for Gara.
There we received orders to start infantry training, as we were to be
converted into a battalion of infantry. Till then we had always done
dismounted cavalry drill. We now started hammer and tongs at infantry
drill, instructed by an officer and two N.C.O.'s from a neighbouring
garrison battalion. We were all looking forward to becoming pukka
infantry, as we had long realised that in our eccentric form as
dismounted yeomanry we should only be given the odd jobs.

We had just got our camp tidy when the water-spout burst, and not only
washed out our lines and those of the Ayrshire and Lanarkshire
Yeomanries, but also demolished the fine earth church which the
Anglican Padre had had built.

On 1st December we arrived at Moascar, a large camp on the Sweetwater
Canal near Ismailia, and there our infantry training started in
earnest. We ate our Christmas dinner there, and on Boxing Day had
Brigade sports. There was very fair bathing in Lake Timsah, and we all
enjoyed getting a sight of the Suez Canal, and being once more in
comparative comfort and civilization.

OFFICERS

C.O. Lieut.-Colonel J. GILMOUR

2nd in Command Major J. YOUNGER

A Squadron Major C. G DE PREE and
Capt. R.W. STEWART

B Squadron Major G.E.B. OSBORNE

C Squadron Capt. D.D. OGILVIE

Adjutant Lieut. H.S. SHARP

Q.-M. Lieut. R.H. COLTHART

M.O. Capt. A. TUKE, R.A.M.C.(T.)

[Illustration: SENUSSI PRISONERS, DAKHLA.
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[Illustration: THE SERGEANTS' REEL, MOASCAR.
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CHAPTER IV

EGYPT AND PALESTINE--1917

New Year's Day saw the Regiment at Moascar Camp, Ismailia, and it was
there that the Fife and Forfar Yeomanry were interred "for the
duration," giving birth at the same time to a sturdy son--the 14th
(Fife and Forfar Yeomanry) Battalion, Royal Highlanders. We were all
very sorry to see the demise of the Yeomanry and to close, though only
temporarily, the records of a Regiment which had had an honourable
career, and of which we were