The Queen's Bays, the Second Dragoon Guards, started life as
the Third Regiment of Horse during Monmouth's rebellion in 1085, when its privates received the surprising pay of Is. 6d. a day, and the chaplain £30 a year more than the adjutant. Messrs. Frederic Whyte and A. Hilliard Atteridge in their History of the Queen's Bays : 1685-1929 (Cape, 35s.) sketch in clear, well-drawn outlineS the regiment's history, which included service through the Spanish Succession War, the Walcheren Expedition, the Indian Mutiny, and comes down in Part I of the volume to the Boer War (1901-2). This section, merely as a general and unteehoksil conspectus of military history, may well appeal to any reader, but the regiment and all its Mends will probably turn more eagerly to the remaining two-thirds of the book, which sets forth in detail, but never in tedious detail, the career of the Bays during the Great War. The whole book is a model of the way in which regimental history—so essential for the maintenance of esprit de corps—ought to be compiled.
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