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HISTORY OF THE 60TH DIVISION, 1914-1918. By COlonel P. H. Dalbiac, C.B. (Allen, 21s.)—" War, war is still the cry," and another quite notable addition to its history is presented to us in the story of the 60th, a typical London Division—typical because, in addition to long-estab- lished Territorial regiments like the London Scottish (the first battalion to be enrolled and the only one which had rifles of its own) and the Queen's Westminsters, it included new battalions drawn from Poplar and Stepney, St. Pancras and the London Irish. Whatever the poet may have implied to the contrary, " the town-bred people " showed of what dogged stuff they were made, and the Division was invariably selected for the toughest jobs in testimony of the fact. Of its work it is impossible to better the summary given by its G.O.C., General Bulfin (who along with Lord Allenby writes a preface), when he tells how the Division's first march from Sutton Veny in 1916 " led them through France, Flanders, across to Salonica, up to Lake Doiran, reflecting in its still waters the surrounding snow-clad Balkans ; down to embark for Alexandria and the heat and sands of Egypt ; up to Gaza and Beersheba in Palestine, and painfully toiling up through the Judean hills, to take a leading part in the capture of that city of terrible tragedies—Jerusalem." Colonel Dalbiac, the author, is to be congratulated on having produced an admirably told and well- proportioned story.
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