The Seventeenth Highland Light Infantry (Glasgow Chamber of Commerce Battalion) (WWI Centenary Series). John W. Arthur

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      The Seventeenth Highland Light Infantry

      (Glasgow Chamber of Commerce Battalion).

      Record of War Service,

      1914-1918.

      BY

      John W. Arthur

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      Contents

       Introduction to the World War One Centenary Series

       A Timeline of the Major Events of World War One in Europe

       In Flanders Fields

       A Soldier’s Cemetery

       EDITORS’ PREFACE.

       I.—FORMATION AND HOME TRAINING.

       THE NATION’S CALL TO ARMS.

       A BATTALION IN BEING.

       ESPRIT DE CORPS.

       HOME STATIONS AND TRAINING.

       II.—ACTIVE SERVICE.

       ON TREK.

       TRENCH ROUTINE.

       THE RAID.

       A LULL BEFORE THE STORM.

       THE BATTLE OF THE SOMME.

       A DIARY ACCOUNT OF THE BATTLE.

       HULLUCH AND THEREABOUTS.

       BEAUMONT-HAMEL.

       THE NEW YEAR, 1917.

       ON THE HEELS OF THE ENEMY.

       IN FLANDERS.

       OPERATIONS ON THE COAST.

       THE YPRES SALIENT.

       THE DISBANDMENT.

       III.—AN ODD MUSTER.

       THE SPIRIT OF THE BATTALION.

       “CO-OPERATION.”

       “THE OUTPOST.”

       SPORT OF THE BATTALION.

       THE R.S.M.

       A REMEMBRANCE.

       THE COMFORTS COMMITTEE.

       MEMORIAL SERVICE IN GLASGOW.

       THE CLUB.

       “E” COMPANY.

       IV.—HONOURS AND AWARDS.

       BATTALION HONOUR.

       Honours Gained by Officers and others while Serving with the Battalion.

       Honours Gained by Original Members of the Battalion after being Transferred to other Units.

       LIST OF OFFICERS who were granted Commissions in the Battalion on its formation and posted to Companies as shewn.