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Acknowledgements
I would like to extend my firm thanks to all of the people who assisted in
the research and writing of this work. First and foremost, my gratitude to
my parents for the support both moral and financial over the years of my
education and beyond. Many thanks are due to Major Tony Astle (retired)
of the 22nd Regiment Museum and Archive in Chester, Lieutenant-Colonel
Angus Fairie at Cameron Barracks in Inverness, and to the staff at the Argyll
and Sutherland Highlanders Museum in Stirling and the staff at the Gordon
Highlanders Museum in Aberdeen. To the Public Record Office desk workers
at Kew, thank you for your patience and diligence. I would also like to
thank Dr Margaret Sankey of Minnesota State University Moorhead for her
assistance and critique. Lastly, my thanks to Dr Dan Szechi and his wife Jan
Szechi, for direction, encouragement, bare threats, and venison curry.
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