Private John Blacklock, 1st Battalion, Gordon Highlanders. He was killed in action in France, aged 22, on the 15th July 1916 during the Battle of the Somme. He had been born in Hawick and was the son of John and Ellen Blacklock of Craigswalk, Edrom. He is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial, Somme France. He had been a policeman in Edinburgh when he enlisted in the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders. In March 1916 he was posted to the Gordons in France. The photos show Scottish troops on the Somme and the coloured image shows a peaceful Somme landscape today with “no gas, no barbed wire, no guns firing now”.
Private John Blacklock
- First World War
