Second Lieutenant Arthur Pollock Sym Borthwick, 58th Company, Machine Gun Corps. He died in France on 15th April 1918 during the German Offensive on the River Lys, aged 30, and is buried in St. Sever Cemetery, Rouen, France. His Headstone is inscribed ” Only Goodnight Beloved Not Farewell His Loving Wife”. He was the son …
Private Frank Turnbull, 2nd Battalion King’s Shropshire Light Infantry, late of the Lothians and Borders Horse. He died on Active Service in Salonica on 30th September 1918, aged 26 and is buried in Doiran Military Cemetery in northern Greece. He had been born in Castleton was the son of James and Betsy Turnbull of Satchells, …
Private Pringle Leithead, 1st/4th ( Border ) Battalion, Kings Own Scottish Borderers. He was killed in action in Palestine, aged 27, on 13th November, 1917 and is buried in Ramleh War Cemetery in the town of Ramla, formerly in Palestine now Israel. He had been born in Edrom, Berwickshire and was the son of Adam …
Company Sergeant Major David Moody, 1st Garrison Battalion, Gordon Highlanders. He died on Service in India, aged 33, on 6th June 1918 and is buried in Rawalpindi War Cemetery, Pakistan. He had been born in Mertoun and was the son of David and the late Jane Moody of Mertoun and Norham.He had originally enlisted in …
Lance Corporal Robert McVittie Armstrong., 10th ( Service ) Battalion, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders. He died in the 36th Casualty Clearing Station in France, aged 29, on 7th November 1917 of wounds received in action on 3rd November during the Battle of Third Ypres. He had been born in Westruther, Berwickshire and was the son …
Private William Wilson Bell, ” C ” Coy. 1st/4th ( Border ) Battalion, Kings Own Scottish Borderers. He died in Kildean Hospital from meningitis on 3rd March 1915, aged 19. He was the only son of John and Ellen Bell of Lilliesleaf and is buried in Stirling ( Ballengeich ) Cemetery. His Headstone is inscribed …
Lance Corporal Francis Kerr, ” C ” Coy. 1st/4th Battalion, Kings Own Scottish Borderers. He died of dysentery aboard R.M.S. “Aquitania”, aged 31, on 20th October 1915, and was buried at sea. He was the son of Andrew and Agnes Kerr of Hawthorn Cottage, Lilliesleaf and is commemorated on the Helles Memorial, Gallipoli, Turkey. The …
Private John Irvine, 2nd Battalion, Kings Own Scottish Borderers. He died in France, aged 22 , on 6th October 1918, of wounds received in action during the ” Advance to Victory”. He had been born in Ashkirk and was the son of James and Helen Irvine of Clerklands, Lilliesleaf and is buried in Mont Huon …
Private James Deans, 1st/4th ( Border ) Battalion, Kings Own Scottish Borderers. He was killed in action at Gallipoli, aged 19, on 12th July 1915 during the ” Charge ” on the Turkish trenches at Achi Baba Nullah. He had been born in Westruther and was the son of David Deans of Greenknowe, Gordon and …
Private William Ogilvie, 9th ( Service ) Battalion Gordon Highlanders. He was killed in action on 25th September 1915, aged 20, on the first day of the Battle of Loos and is commemorated on the Loos Memorial, Dud Corner, Loos, France. He had been born in Tranent and was the son of William and Jane …
Private George Smith, 5th ( Western Cavalry ) Battalion, Canadian Infantry. He was killed in action on 28th April, 1917, aged 29, during the Battle of Arras and is commemorated on the Vimy Memorial, France. He had been born in Selkirk and was the son of John and Mary Smith of Catfraid, Lilliesleaf, Roxburghshire. He …
Sergeant George Millar, 13th ( Royal Highlanders of Canada ), Battalion, Canadian Infantry. He was killed in action in Belgium on 13th June, 1915, aged 29. and is commemorated on the Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres. He was the son of John Millar of Lilliesleaf, Roxburghshire and husband of Janet Millar of 269 Galapark Road, Galashiels. …
