Private William Holmes Fairgrieve, 10th ( Service ) Battalion, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders. He was killed by a sniper in France on 31st August 1915, aged 30 years. He had been born in Mordington and was the son of Mrs Helen Fairgrieve, Leitholm, and is buried in Vermelles British Cemetery France. He had emigrated to […]
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Trooper John Dawson, East African Mounted Rifles. He was killed in action in East Africa on 13th May 1915, aged 26, and is commemorated on the. Nairobi British and Indian Memorial, Nairobi, Kenya. He was born in 1889 at Grizzelrig Farm to Peter and Jane Dawson of Grizelrig farm, Leitholm and on leaving school he
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Captain Edward Armfield Marrow, Adjutant,1st Battalion, Kings Own Scottish Borderers. He was killed in action, aged 31, on the 25th April 1915. He was the son of the late Major Peter Marrow, husband of Constance M. Machin (formerly Marrow) of Belchester, Coldstream and is buried at Twelve Tree Copse Cemetery, Gallipoli, Turkey. He had been
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Private William Norris, 1st Battalion, Scots Guards. He was killed in action in France on 1st January 1915 and is commemorated on the Le Touret Memorial, France He had been born in Kirk Yetholm and was the son of John Norris and Margaret Frater of Linton, Roxburghshire and Lochside, Leitholm. He had enlisted in August
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Lieutenant John Bloomfield Gough, Mentioned-in-Dispatches,” D “Battery, Royal Horse Artillery . He was killed in action on the 8th September 1914, aged 28, during the actions in the advance to the River Aisne, France. He was the son of Colonel Bloomfield Gough late 9th Lancers (buried at Leitholm, Berwickshire ) and the husband of Marian
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