[Transcriber's note: Obvious printer's errors have been corrected,all other inconsistencies are as in the original. Author's spelling has beenmaintained.]

WITH A HIGHLAND
REGIMENT IN MESOPOTAMIA

GENERAL SIR STANLEY MAUDE AND HIS STAFF, BAGHDAD, 1917. Frontispiece.

WITH A
HIGHLAND REGIMENT
IN MESOPOTAMIA
1916-1917

BY

ONE OF ITS OFFICERS

BOMBAY
THE TIMES PRESS
1918

TO
THE CHILDREN OF THE OFFICERS AND MEN
OF THE —— REGIMENT

BRIEFLY DESCRIBING THE DOINGS OF THE
2ND BATTALION IN MESOPOTAMIA
WRITTEN SO THAT THEY MAY NOT FORGET THE
HARDSHIPS ENDURED AND THE SACRIFICES WHICH
HAVE BEEN MADE ON THEIR BEHALF
1916-1917.

AUTHOR'S NOTE.

In writing this short account of the 2nd Battalion in Mesopotamia, myaim has not been to write a military history of all that was achieved;that will be the task of some one more competent to judge of meritsand demerits than myself. My object has been to give an account insimple language of the two years spent by the Battalion in the Iraq,so that the children of the men of the regiment may know of the bravedeeds and the hardships cheerfully borne on their behalf.

Two articles describing our last two battles are here reprinted withthe permission of Brigadier-General A. G. Wauchope, from whom I havealso received many details of our earlier fights, and I am alsoindebted for information to Captains J. Macqueen, W. E. Blair, W. A.Young, Sergeant-Major W. S. Clark, and other officers of theBattalion.

Mesopotamia,
October, 1917.

Telegram from

HIS MAJESTY THE KING.

Received by Colonel A. G. Wauchope, D.S.O., Commanding, 2ndBattalion—January 1917.

I thank you, Officers, Non-Commissioned Officers and men, for the cardof New Year's greetings.

I have followed the work of the Battalion with great interest. I knowhow well all ranks have done, what they have suffered, and that theywill ever maintain the glorious tradition of the Regiment.

GEORGE, R.I.,
Colonel-in-Chief.

Order by G. O. C., —— Division.

I cannot speak too highly of the splendid gallantry of the ——Highlanders, aided by a party of the —— Jats, in storming theTurkish Trenches.

Their noble achievement is one of the highest.

They showed qualities of endurance and courage under circumstances soadverse, as to be almost phenomenal.

Sir George Younghusband,
Commanding —— Division.

After the action fought on the 21st January 1916 on the Tigris theabove was published.

Letter to O. C. 2nd Battalion ——.

Tell the men of your battalion that they have given, in the advance tothe relief of Kut, brilliant examples of cool courage, and hard anddetermined fighting which could not be surpassed.

Sir Percy Lake,
Commanding the Army in Mesopotamia.