In all the King's Own Scottish Borderers totalled fourteen battalions during
the Great War, of which eight saw action, most of them on the Western Front but
battalions also served at Gallipoli, in the Egypt/Palestine campaign and, for a
brief period, in Italy. There were no battalions in India, Macedonia or
Mesopotamia. Altogether some seven thousand died, sixty-six Battle Honours and
four Victoria Crosses were awarded (all four were won on the Western Front). The
author has tackled his history on a battalion rather than chronological basis,
and after a brief but interesting account of the early history of the regiment
(formed in 1689) he leads the reader into the consecutive history of each of the
fighting battalions in the order in which they entered the Great War. He divides
his account into a series of books, each dealing with a separate battalion or
group of battalions, each with their separate chapters.
Reprint of the 1930 original edition.
