17 JANUARY 1931, Page 30

The oldest regiment in the British Army assuredly needs no

artificial stimulus to the maintenance of its esprit de corps, but we may regard Major Gould Walker's The Honourable Artillery Company in the Great War (Seeley, Service, 12s. 6d.) as one more stone to the cairn which commemorates the deeds of this famous regiment. In reasonable detail, considering the extent and diffusion of the Company's activities, its achieve- ments in the War are clearly and quietly recorded, and though in the future the additional recording of individual experience may bring that record nearer completeness, the present volume will, as a compendium, be found entirely adequate. The fore- word by the Earl of Denbigh contains a highly characteristic utterance of Lord Kitchener.

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