The writer has often had it suggested to him that it was a pity the deeds of the 25th Battalion were not better known by the people at home. The reply to such a suggestion, on behalf of the Battalion is this: The reputation of the 25th Battalion was safe in the hands of our comrades throughout the Canadian Corps, and our exploits in raiding were the marvel of two armies. These exploits and deeds with their inevitable accompaniment of blood and death were not fit subjects to press-agent into the already overwrought family circles, which were possibly in receipt of one of those missiles of despair and death—an “official telegram from Ottawa.” We gloried in the encomiums of the Brigade, Divisional, Corps and Army Commanders, and still more in the hearty praise of our comrades in the “Y” or the canteens or estaminets. But no one thought of sending an account home. And why? Well, there were a good many Bills, and Jocks, and Toms and so on, who “went west” in that scrap. And what’s the use of making it realistic to Mary and Nora and Bessie? “No, Pard, we would rather not.” And there we will leave it and endeavor to adhere to a resolution to make this brief sketch statistically correct. Before Christmas Day, 1914, the Battalion was at full strength and had the authorized ten per cent. reserve in training in the Armories at Halifax and later on the Common. In April the people of Nova Scotia presented the Battalion with two fine field kitchens and $2,500, the ceremony taking place at the Provincial Building, in front of the whole Battalion on parade and a vast concourse of people. As evidence of the fine spirit which animated the whole Battalion the-following is copied from the official War Diary: “A University Reinforcement Company of the P.P.C.L.I. arrived in the city to embark for England, and the 25th Battalion was called on to supply seven men to bring it up to strength. The Battalion was formed up on the Common and an invitation extended for any who wished to go Overseas at once in this draft to take one pace forward. The whole Battalion, to a man, stepped forward making it necessary to search the records and select seven ex-imperial service men. Privates Aldridge, Baker, Conroy, Cumberland, Erickson, Kehoe and Leonard were selected.”