Hello Listers, In an effort to pursue my family history, I have met a good many people, both in person and through the (e)mails who have a common interest in my grandfather's World War One military unit. This Territorial Force unit, the 4th Highland (Mountain) Brigade consisted of the Bute Battery, the Argyll Battery and the Ross & Cromarty Battery. It was a local Territorial Force unit created in 1908 as a "mountain" artillery unit, a part of the 51st (Highland) Division Artillery. Most of the Brigade fought in Gallipoli and was the first artillery on the beaches in the first landing on Helles Point and the subsequent landing at Suvla Bay. They literally wore their guns out on Gallipoli and, true to their martial traditions, manhandled their guns up cliffs and hills that their animals weren't able to in order to provide fire support for the Allied forces. At one point in the Suvla Bay landing, the Ross Battery was 1-1/2 miles ahead of the front line (so they were the front line!) following their earlier directive to set up in this spot. They then went to Egypt, training and participating in minor actions there and then on to Salonika where they performed feats of firepower and mobility that rated special mention in official and unofficial histories. My contacts with other descendants of this group and the remarkable Commander Ian Hamilton of Rothesay have led to the unavoidable decision to chronicle the Brigade in a book. Commander Hamilton has agreed to collaborate and has done wonderful research already in this regard. This will be about the officers and men of the Highlands & Islands who manned these batteries so well. I have collected several stories from descendants so far and hope to collect a good many more. I am also looking for lists, articles, diaries and anecdotes about the Brigade and it's men. This is not intended to be a commercial venture. I have begun it because it hasn't been done. I've seen many histories of other units in the Great War and several small articles and parts of books have been written about the brigade including a piece in The Sword of the North by Rev. Dugald McEchern, yet there is no dedicated history of the 4th Highland (Mountain) Brigade. If it is published commercially all the better, but it will be published one way or the other as it is a story that needs to be memorialized. Send me whatever you have (even just encouragement!). Give me your views, just let me know that you have a relative who served with the Brigade. I will keep it all. Thanks, Mike Morrison