Chapter I: Introduction

These brief notes of experiences with the guns for thirty-eight months in France were primarily penned for my own satisfaction. Friends who read the manuscript expressed much interest in it, and added the hope that it might be given a more permanent form. Hence it is that it is now printed for private circulation.

The story is a simple record of the fortunes of my own Battery and Brigade, and is intended as a tribute to the good comradeship which existed, under all conditions, among all ranks.

C.A.R.

Edinburgh, _January_, 1919.

The “Grey Battery” at St. Omer, May 1917 The “Grey Battery” at St. Omer, May 1917