Sinopsis

The 25th Battalion of the Middlesex Regiment had already such a record of
travel and remarkable experiences to its credit that it was in quite a matterof-
fact way I answered a summons from Headquarters at Hong-Kong, one
morning in November, 1917, and received the instruction to hold myself
and my battalion in readiness to proceed to a destination unknown.
Further conferences between the heads of departments under the
presidency of the G.O.C., Major-General F. Ventris, revealed that the
operations of the battalion were to be conducted in a very cold climate, and
a private resident at tiffin that day at the Hong-Kong Club simply asked
me "at what date I expected to leave for Vladi...