Lance Corporal Willam Hume

Lance Corporal William Young Hume, “A” Coy., 7th ( Service ) Battalion, Cameron Highlanders. He was killed in action in France on 25th September 1915 on the opening day of the Battle of Loos, aged 23. He was the son of Mrs Frances Richardson ( formerly Hume ) of Woodside, Yetholm and the late Mr W. Hume M.B., C.M., native of Jedburgh ( L.D.S. Edin ) and is buried in Noeux-Les-Mines Communal Cemetery, Loos, France. He fell in the 15th (Scottish) Division attack which took the village of Loos and parts of Hill 70 beyond.  Casualties were very heavy , 19 Officers and 668 Other Ranks. The first photograph shows an actual attack with the troops advancing into a ghostly cloud of gas and smoke. The second shows the village of Loos after its capture. The artist’s illustration shows the Camerons in the attack.