The Right Stuff

Captain Beith, who was born in 1876 and therefore narrowly came within the age limit for military service enlisted at the first outbreak of hostilities in the summer of 1914 and was made a sub-lieutenant in the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders. After training throughout the fall and winter at Aldershot he accompanied his regiment to the front in April and as his narrative discloses immediately saw some very active service and rapidly rose to the rank of captain. In the offensive of September Captain Beith's division was badly cut up and seriously reduced in numbers. He has lately been transferred to a machine gun division and for some mysterious reason as he characteristically puts it in a letter to his publishers has been recommended for the military cross.