Private Thomas Waddell

Private Thomas Waddell, 6th ( Service ) Battalion, Cameron Highlanders. He was killed in action in France on 26th September 1915, aged 24, on the second day of the Battle of Loos. He had been born in Chirnside, Berwickshire and was the son of William and Jane Waddell of Waulkmill, Duns and Penmanshiel, Grantshouse, Berwickshire and is commemorated on the Loos Memorial, Dud Corner, Loos, France. He had been working as a clerk at Middlethird Farm, Gordon when he enlisted in Edinburgh in January 1915. The  photograph shows the village of Loos after its capture and the artist’s illustration shows the Camerons in the attack at Loos.

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