The Story of the Royal Scots (The Lothian Regiment) Formerly the First Or the Royal Regiment of Foot
The book The Story of the Royal Scots (The Lothian Regiment) Formerly the First Or the Royal Regiment of Foot was written by author Weaver, Lawrence, Sir, 1876- Here you can read free online of The Story of the Royal Scots (The Lothian Regiment) Formerly the First Or the Royal Regiment of Foot book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is The Story of the Royal Scots (The Lothian Regiment) Formerly the First Or the Royal Regiment of Foot a good or bad book?
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199 Casualties and Honours victims of enteric and other diseases, and those who fell on the stricken field make quite a short list. It would be unjust, however, on that account to minimize the value of the services rendered by the battalion. It is well to remember the immense difficulties of supply and the hardship of semi-starvation which were often the lot of our soldiers on the veldt for weeks together. The climatic conditions were often terrible, nor were the troops in their thin khaki equi...pped to resist them. One may mention, for example, that on June 2, 1901, the tea froze in the cups at breakfast, twenty-six oxen were frozen to death, and two men on picket duty were picked up unconscious. A truer estimate of the battalion's services is to be drawn from the list of honours which the regiment won. Officers and men received fifty-nine mentions in dispatches; fifteen officers received the D.S.O., and fifteen N.C.O.'s and men got the D.C.M. For some unknown reason Lord Kitchener's recommendation of Lieut.
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