Private Alexander Murray

Private Alexander Ramsay Murray, 1st/7th ( Blythswood ) Battalion, Highland Light Infantry. He was killed in action in France during “The Advance to Victory” on 27th August 1918 aged 37. He had been born in Leith and was the son of John and Jane Elliot of Leith and was the husband of Margaret Kinghorn Murray of Mill Wynd, Greenlaw whom he had married in Coldstream in 1910.  Before enlisting he had been employed as a grocer in Greenlaw. Originally he had enlisted in the K.O.S.B. but had been transferred into the H.L.I. He is buried in Bucquoy Wood Road Cemetery, Ficheux, France where his Headstone is inscribed ” In Ever Loving Memory From Wife & Children “. The photographs show Allied troops during the final advance against the retreating German army in the last 100 days of the War.