Kiltie Mccoy; An American Boy With An Irish Name Fighting in France As a Scotch Soldier
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Your government provides you with a rifle and bayonet. You are not here to demean yourself by fighting with your fists as if you were in a brawl." Incidentally, I am glad to add that man never served a second of his sentence. By what means he escaped it, I don't know, but I do know that I would have enjoyed the honor of being crimed, tried and sentenced for his offense. But our losses in that gas attack were just a repe- tition of the old, old story with us. The Cameronian Scottish Rifles had e...arned their title of the "Hard Luck Battalion," and were living up to it. All over France we were known by this name. Drafted men hated to be assigned to our battalion. The jinx which had attached itself to us never Once left us. We never had nor- 134 KILTIE McCOY mal casualties, we always lost our men by the hun- dreds. If we got a draft of one hundred men to- day, we were certain to lose that many the next time we went into a scrap. We had made a bad start back there near Fleurbaix when we lost six mem in the communicating trenches before ever we reached the front line, and death and disaster were with us ever after.
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