A HISTORY OF THE BLACK WATCH IN THE GREAT WAR (3 Volumes)

The Black Watch (Royal Highlanders) had twenty-five battalions by the end of the war. 30,000 served in the Regiment in France, Belgium, Salonika, Palestine and Mesopotamia, and of these 8,390 died. The Regiment was awarded 69 Battle Honours, three Victoria Crosses were won and a fourth was awarded a Black Watch officer in 1917 while he was commanding 1st Lincolns. This three-volume history is outstanding: Volume 1 deals with the Regular and the Special Reserve battalions; Volume 2 the Territorial Force battalions and Volume 3 the New Army (Service or Kitchener) battalions. In each volume the battalions are treated separately and for all the front line battalions, following the narrative describing their war service there are the same six appendices: Record of Officers' Service, Summary of Casualties, Officer casualty list, Other Rank casualty list, Honours and Awards and finally the list of Actions and Operations. Reprint of the 1925 original edition.