Produced by Michael Ciesielski, Christine P. Travers and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net [Transcriber's note: Obvious printer's errors have been corrected, all other inconsistencies are as in the original. Author's spelling has been maintained.] WITH A HIGHLAND REGIMENT IN MESOPOTAMIA [Illustration: General Sir Stanley Maude And His Staff, Baghdad, 1917. _Frontispiece._] WITH A HIGHLAND REGIMENT IN MESOPOTAMIA 1916-1917 BY ONE OF ITS OFFICERS BOMBAY THE TIMES PRESS 1918 TO THE CHILDREN OF THE OFFICERS AND MEN OF THE ---- REGIMENT BRIEFLY DESCRIBING THE DOINGS OF THE 2ND BATTALION IN MESOPOTAMIA WRITTEN SO THAT THEY MAY NOT FORGET THE HARDSHIPS ENDURED AND THE SACRIFICES WHICH HAVE BEEN MADE ON THEIR BEHALF 1916-1917. AUTHOR'S NOTE. In writing this short account of the 2nd Battalion in Mesopotamia, my aim has not been to write a military history of all that was achieved; that will be the task of some one more competent to judge of merits and demerits than myself. My object has been to give an account in simple language of the two years spent by the Battalion in the Iraq, so that the children of the men of the regiment may know of the brave deeds and the hardships cheerfully borne on their behalf. Two articles describing our last two battles are here reprinted with the permission of Brigadier-General A. G. Wauchope, from whom I have also received many details of our earlier fights, and I am also indebted for information to Captains J. Macqueen, W. E. Blair, W. A. Young, Sergeant-Major W. S. Clark, and other officers of the Battalion. MESOPOTAMIA, _October, 1917._ _Telegram from_ HIS MAJESTY THE KING. Received by Colonel A. G. WAUCHOPE, D.S.O., Commanding, 2nd Battalion--January 1917. I thank you, Officers, Non-Commissioned Officers and men, for the card of New Year's greetings. I have followed the work of the Battalion with great interest. I know how well all ranks have done, what they have suffered, and that they will ever maintain the glorious tradition of the Regiment. GEORGE, R.I., _Colonel-in-Chief_. _Order by G. O. C., ---- Division._ I cannot speak too highly of the splendid gallantry of the ----Highlanders, aided by a party of the ---- Jats, in storming the Turkish Trenches. Their noble achievement is one of the highest.