Sergeant Thomas Lawrie

Sergeant Thomas Lawrie, M.I.D., 2nd Battalion Kings Own Scottish Borderers. He was killed in Flanders  during the first Battle of Ypres on 18th November 1914, aged 23. He had been born in Duns and was the son of George and Johanna Kinlayside Simpson Lawrie of Cumledge Mills, Duns and is commemorated on the Menin Gate, Ypres, Belgium. Before enlisting in Berwick as a regular in 1910 he had been employed as a gamekeeper at Manderson, Duns. At that date the Battalion occupied trenches in a triangular wood known as ” Nonne Bosschen ” ( Nuns Wood ). On the 18th the trenches were subjected to ” Minenwerfer ” attacks and 20 casualties in killed and wounded were suffered. Sergeant Lawrie was one of them. ( Minenwerfers were  types of mortars that fired very large explosives ).  The photographs show British troops in defensive positions near Ypres.

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