Private Joseph Wilson

Private Joseph Wilson, 7th/8th ( Service ) Battalion King’s Own Scottish Borderers. He died in France on 8th July 1916, aged 26, of wounds received in action during the Battle of the Somme and is buried in Vermelles British Cemetery, He had been born in Crosby-upon-Eden, Carlisle and was the son of Thomas and Mary Wilson of 32 North Hermitage Street, Newcastleton and his Headstone is inscribed ” He Died That We Might Live” Before enlisting he had been employed as a signalman with the North British Railway Company at St. Boswells. The photograph shows Scottish troops on the Somme and the colour image shows a peaceful Somme landscape today ” with no gas, no barbed wire, no guns firing now”.