_The "Glorious Rascals"_
_Told by E. S. and G. F. Lees_
The reinstatement by the King of Lieutenant-Colonel John Ford
Elkington in the Royal Warwickshire Regiment, after he had served
for twenty-two months with conspicuous bravery in the French
Foreign Legion, has once more drawn attention to this unique
military organization. As the writers of this story show, "La
Légion Etrangère" of our Allies the French is literally steeped
in romance, and it is therefore the romantic side of the heroic
yet often maligned legionaries which they have set forth most
prominently. Practically every man in the corps has a history, if
he could only be induced to tell it, and in the present war the
Legion has covered itself with glory, as shown in this story in the
_Wide World Magazine_.