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ABOUT THIS BOOK…
This is
the WW2 History of the 5th (County of Angus) Battalion of The Black Watch - the
Royal Highland Regiment - and gives a vivid account of events from 1939 to 1945
with a postscript bringing the story up to the present day.
It traces the fortunes of the Battalion
through the early days of training to the gradual emergence of a highly
efficient unit good enough to be incorporated into the famous 51st Highland
Division in 1941, with which it served right through to the end of the War in
Europe.
At the start, the men were mostly from
the County of Angus but later they were joined by recruits drawn from other
parts of Scotland and the rest of the United Kingdom. The newcomers very
quickly learned that as members of the senior Highland Regiment they had to
absorb the history and the tradition which would qualify them for the accolade
of becoming a "Jock".
Over land and sea, from the Butterburn
School in Dundee, to Bremerhaven in North West Germany, their journey took them
some 25,000 miles. An epic full of incidents and endeavour, triumphs and
tragedies, by a Battalion which never forgot its territorial roots and, in
trying to live up to the great traditions of its Regiment, kept alive the
Spirit of Angus.
First printed in hardback in 1988, it
became a valued reference book to all readers of military history and this new
edition fills a much needed niche and will be prized by those who served with
the Battalion and by the families of those who are no longer alive, especially
those whose names and locations are enshrined in the Roll of Honour
incorporated in the book.
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