“ It has in it all the stern tenderness of the Gaelic folksong, plus the mighty exaltation of the Flanders front, where men march out to die without external glory, cheerfully, wearily, muddles to the eyes, smiling to the last moment, became the thing that they purchase with their death has become so immensely worth while. What Lieutenant E. A. Mackintosh sang about in his poems he has at last accomplished. The war created him; the war has taken him away. He was killed on November 21. Details are not yet to hand as to how he encountered death. ”

“ Writing of Lieutenant Ewart Alan Mackintosh, M.C., Seaforth Highlanders, a correspondent signing himself "C. D." says:—"When a few months ago 'A Highland Regiment' was published by the Bodley Head, literary men on both sides of the Atlantic were quick to recognize that the war had created a new heroic poet. His poem 'Cha Till Maccruimein,' written on the departure of a battalion of the Camerons, is amongst the most valuable contributions to Scottish literature of the past 50 years. ”

“ Many of the men who served under him were New Zealanders. He learnt to love them, and had planned to make his home in their country had he survived the war. Through his death he survives in a different way. There are among his poems some that will live for always, while he sleeps unbrokenly among the English gentleman of France. ”