Private James Hall, 6th ( Service ) Battalion, Kings Own Scottish Borderers. He died in Germany, aged 23, on 27th February 1919 after the Armistice. The Battalion was part of the 9th ( Scottish ) Division which had been chosen to be part of the British Occupying Force. He was the son of Robert and …
Private David Reid Scott, Royal Scots. He died at Home from T.B. on the 18th November 1918 aged 24. He had been born in Yetholm and was the son of Ellen and the late John Scott of Greenlees, Linton. He had been discharged from the Army in September 1916.
Private William Robertson Aitchison, 2nd Battalion, Gordon Highlanders. He died from wounds in the 39th Casualty Clearing Station in Italy on 13th July 1918, aged, 23. He had been born in Sprouston and was the son of John and Catherine Aitchison of Blakelaw, Kelso and is buried in Montecchio Precalcino Communal Cemetery Extension, Italy. Before …
Private Adam Waldie Wilson., 9th Battalion, Machine Gun Corps. He died in the 36th Casualty Clearing Station Belgium on 25th April 1918 of wounds received in action during the German Spring Offensive on the River Lys aged 25. He was the brother of Mrs Janet Clark of Jardine Hall, Lockerbie and is buried in Haringhe …
Private David Lunham, Depot, Kings Own Scottish Borderers. He had been born in Hownam and was the son of William and the late Jane Lunham of Hoselaw Mains, Linton and Burnbrae, Nenthorn. He had been employed as a road surfaceman when he enlisted in the 1st/4th K.O.S.B. in January 1915. Due to illness he was …
Captain William Fulton Sommervail, D.S.O., M.C., M.I.D., 2nd Battalion, Cameronians. He was killed in action in France on 4th October 1918, aged 26, during the ” Advance to Victory”. He was the younger son of James and Isabella Sommervail of Hoselaw, Linton, Roxburghshire and is buried in Vadencourt British Cemetery, Massemy, Aisne, France. He had …
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Private Ralph Coulter, 1st/4th ( Border ) Battalion, Kings Own Scottish Borderers. He was killed in action in Palestine, aged 19, during the second Battle of Gaza on 19th April 1917 and is commemorated on the Gaza Memorial, Gaza, Israel. He had been born at Middlefield, Berwickshire and was the son of Mary and the …
Private Hugh Ferguson, 1st/4th ( Border ) Battalion, Kings Own Scottish Borderers. He died in Egypt, aged 21, on 26th April 1917 of wounds received in action at the Second Battle of Gaza on 19th April 1917. He is buried in Kantara War Memorial Cemetery, Egypt. He had been born in Yetholm and was the …
Private George Alexander Drummond Hall, 25th Battalion ( 2nd Tyneside Irish ) Northumberland Fusiliers. He was killed in action in France on 1st July 1916 on the First Day of the Battle of The Somme, aged 18. He was the son of Robert and Rebecca Hall of Joy Graden, Kelso and is commemorated on the …
Private Andrew Turner, 2nd Battalion, Gordon Highlanders. He died in France on 19th March 1916, aged 24, of wounds received in action and is buried in Corbie Communal Cemetery, Somme, France. He was the younger son of Andrew Turner, farm servant, of Hardie’s Mill, Gordon and the husband of Jane Turner of Mid Softlaw, Kelso. …
Lieutenant Frank Weddell Smail, ” D” Coy. 1st/7th ( Territorial ) Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers. He died in Hospital in London on 1st December 1915 as a result of wounds received in action in Belgium on 22nd June 1915, aged 23. He was the son of Henry Richardson Smail of Berwick-upon-Tweed and is buried in Berwick-upon-Tweed …
Private John Robertson 1st /4th ( Border ) Battalion, Kings Own Scottish Borderers. He was killed in action at Gallipoli on 12th July 1915 during the ” Charge ” on the Turkish trenches at Achi Baba Nullah and is commemorated on the Helles Memorial, Helles, Gallipoli, Turkey. He had been born in Linton and was …
