Private Fred Routledge

Private Fred Matthew Armstrong Routledge, 10th ( Lovat Scouts ) Battalion, Cameron Highlanders. He was killed in action in Salonika, aged 21, on 25th October 1917 and is buried in Struma War Cemetery, Struma, Greece. He had been born in Bowden, Roxburghshire and was the son of Thomas and Margaret Routledge of Eastfield, Greenlaw. He  had originally enlisted in Edinburgh in the Scottish Horse Yeomanry before being transferred into the Lovat Scouts which was then forming the 10th Battalion, Camerons. He fell in the attack on the Bulgarian held villages of Salma and Kispedi where the Battalion had 9 killed and 29 wounded. 10th Camerons were part of the 82nd Brigade in the 27th Division. He was educated at the Berwickshire High School and is also commemorated on the Memorial Tablet placed in the new Berwickshire High School, Duns. The photographs show Highland troops at Salonika.

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