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...Captain Beith was just under the maximum age limit for enlistment at the outbreak of the war and immediately enrolled in the Tenth Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, which went into training at Aldershot in the fall of 1914. The regiment remained in training for six months and were finally sent to the front in the spring of 1915 as members of the first detachment of England's volunteer army. Captain Beith's ability and courage soon won him a commission and he rose rapidly to the rank of captain. He has recently been granted a furlough by the British...
...book, "The First Hundred Thousand," written under the pen-name of Ian Hay, Captain Beith has collected his most interesting and entertaining experiences at Aldershot and "somewhere in France" as typical of the life of a British volunteer...
...Captain Beith is the official lecturer of the British government at the Allied Bazaar in Boston, and with Captain Norman Charles Thwaites, V.C., is in charge of the British military exhibits in Mechanics Building...
Fresh from the English trenches in France, Captain Ian Hay Beith has come to America to resume in person his lively and picturesque narrative of the "First Hundred Thousand--still first", as he touchingly puts it at the close of his book, but, alas, no longer The Hundred Thousand. At the beginning of the war he enlisted in a well-known Highland regiment, in spite of the fact that his thirty-eight years put him almost over the age limit for military service. Then came six months of arduous training at Aldershot with the other members of the motley collection...
...Lecture. "The Human Side of Trench Warfare," by Captain Ian Hay Beith. Sanders Theatre...