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[Illustration: POINT OF GALLIPOLI]
THE INCOMPARABLE 29TH
AND THE "RIVER CLYDE"
BY
GEORGE DAVIDSON, M.A., M.D.
MAJOR, R.A.M.C.
ABERDEEN
JAMES GORDON BISSET
85 BROAD STREET
Dedicated
TO THE
STRETCHER-BEARERS OF THE
89TH FIELD AMBULANCE
IN WARM ADMIRATION OF THEIR CONSTANT ZEAL AND PLUCK
AND IN REMEMBRANCE OF THE MANY EXCITING TIMES
WE HAD TOGETHER
PREFACE.
I had not the slightest intention of ever publishing these notes in
book form while jotting them down for the sole purpose of giving my
wife some connected idea of how we at the Front were spending our
time. I found, to my surprise, that keeping a diary was a great
pleasure, and I rarely missed the opportunity of taking notes at odd
times--and often in odd places.
Several of my friends read the parts as I sent them home, and it is on
the valued advice of one in particular that I now offer these scraps
to the public. I make practically no change on the original, but in a
few places, for the sake of sequence, or more fulness, I have made
additions. These are always in brackets.
Some of the remarks in the original might safely be published fifty
years hence, but at present the war is too recent for these to see the
light of print.
GEORGE DAVIDSON,
R.A.M.C.
TORPHINS, ABERDEENSHIRE,
_June, 1919._