James Lusk served as Captain and Adjutant in the 6th Battalion the Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) during the First World War, his outstanding bravery rewarded when he became a Chevalier of the Legion of Honour in November 1915. On Christmas Day 1915 he was hit by a German trench-mortar while distributing cigarettes to his men and died in hospital at Amiens three days later having suffered severe facial injuries and a broken neck. His family published this memoir compiled from extracts from his diaries and letters a year after his death in December 1916. With a photographic portrait of Captain Lusk.