Happy New Year!

We wish all our members, friends, their families and loved ones all the very best for a happy and healthy 2023. And we send special Hogmanay greetings to our Scottish members and friends.

As everyone knows, the Scots keep New Year’s Day as an occasion for festivities more than Christmas. In London, for instance, the assemblage outside St Paul’s on New Year’s Eve, of persons hailing from north of the Tweed, was until the war a time-honoured event. Campaigning in the Balkans in winter does not offer great scope for such celebrations, but, as our photograph shows, the Scots made the best of it with the limited materials available. The group illustrated is a party of regimental cooks, belonging to a Scottish regiment. They have decorated their tree, in the absence of the customary accessories, with a heterogenous assortment of articles – boxes, bottles, stockings, boots, gloves, horns, biscuits, slices of bacon, and cans of bully beef. – [Photo. by Topical.]

The Illustrated London News, Feb, 9, 1916 – [Part 79] – 19