Our contribution to the Foreign Service Battalion, consisting of five
officers and about 240 men, went off to their new station
to-day--they are only a few miles away. It was with mingled feelings
that the rest of us watched them go, but our turn may come later, and
we must be willing to go where we are most needed.
This 'Foreign Service Battalion' was never actually sent out, so
Lieutenant Lusk lost nothing by not being chosen for it. During that
first winter of the War, his work was in Falkirk, and during most of
it, it was that of Staff Captain to the Scottish Rifle Brigade. He
took up these new duties on November 6th, and resigned them on March
9th. The reason of his resignation was that a short time previously
his own Battalion had been told that they would shortly be sent
abroad without the rest of the Brigade, and he wanted to go with them.