Soon after this I went down for the first time to the Artists Headquarters in Duke’s Road, where I met a lot of people whom I had often heard of, but never before seen. They one and all made me so welcome, that I almost felt I was going to my own home. I shall never forget Colonel May coming up to me, and saying that he would like to thank me for all I had done for the Artists, but that he did not quite know how to do so, so he thought perhaps he had better repeat to me what one of the men had said to him. When asked something about their new Commanding Officer, this man had replied, “Well, Sir, he might have been an Artist himself.” I think that if I have earned those words, honestly spoken, it is as much as anyone could have wished. R. H. G. P.S.--I have said very little about the organisation and interior working of the Battalion because I do not consider it would be a compliment to go into such details. I think the secret of the Artists’ success was very largely the wonderful amount of material always at hand. When Adjutants, Scouts, Signallers, Runners, Pioneers, and all these people were ever ready, and there was always somebody fit to step into someone else’s shoes if anything happened, it really was very easy work for a stranger, once he realised this. Then there was old Freddy Light, with his 40 years service in the Corps, and R.Q.M.S. Hack, a veteran of the Boer War times. They always worked quietly without any fuss or bother, always had what was wanted, and would have done anything in the world which was humanly possible, that the men should be comfortable, and that the Battalion should always have the best of everything. There were few Territorial Regiments who had the services of one of their own Quarter-Masters, and the Artists have been extremely lucky in theirs. Then you will find in my notes that the names of the Officers are nearly always the same. I have avoided using names at all except where I thought it would simplify matters, but I do not wish to convey the impression that these are the only names worthy of note, as it is not so. I should not know where to begin, or end, if I had to tell you what I thought about individuals. I see that R.S.M. Fox is not mentioned--there again we were singularly fortunate, and had to do a great deal of “wangling” to keep him. As you know, any man who occupied that position after Peter Emslie had gone, had a very tough proposition before him. ADDENDA TO SECTIONS I. TO VI. Particulars received whilst this Edition was in the Press-- _Add to_ ROLL OF HONOUR (pp. 2 to 42). † = _Died of Wounds._ ✠ = Military Cross.