Private William Norris, 1st Battalion, Scots Guards. He was killed in action in France , aged 20, on 1st January, 1915 and is commemorated on Le Touret Memorial, Pas de Calais, France. ( He is also commemorated on the Leitholm War Memorial ). He had been born in Kirk Yetholm and was the son of …
Lance Corporal Robert Mitchell, M.M., ( possibly ) 2nd/4th ( Territorial ) Battalion, King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry. He died of wounds in France on 27th September, 1918 suffered during the ” Advance to Victory ” and is buried in Grevillers British Cemetery, Pas de Calais, France. The photos show Allied troops advancing during the …
Private George McGregor, 1st Battalion, Scots Guards. He was killed in action in Belgium, aged 27, on 31st July 1917 on the first day of the Third Battle of Ypres and is commemorated on the Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres, Flanders, Belgium. He had been born in Mindrum, Northumberland and was the son of Thomas and …
Private Walter Harriot Halliday, 53rd Battalion, Machine Gun Corps ( Infantry ). He was killed in action in Belgium on 22nd October 1917 during the Third Battle of Ypres, aged 30, and is buried in the Cement House Cemetery, Langemark, Flanders ,Belgium. He had been born in Swinton, Berwickshire and was the son of Robert …
Private John Guthrie, 8th ( Service ) Battalion, Leicestershire Regiment. He was killed in action in France on 22nd March 1918 near St Quentin on the second day of the German Spring Offensive ( Operation Michael ) and is commemorated on the Pozieres Memorial, Pozieres, France. He had been born in Yetholm and was the …
Corporal John Grahamslaw, 1st Battalion, Kings Own Scottish Borderers, He was a Regular Soldier and was killed in action, aged 30, on 26th April, 1915 during the Allied landings on the Gallipoli Peninsula and is commemorated on the Helles Memorial, Helles, Gallipoli, Turkey. He had been born in Yetholm and was the son of the …
Private James Frater, 16th ( Service ) Battalion, Highland Light Infantry. He was killed in action in Belgium, aged 22, on 3rd July 1917 near Nieuport, Belgium during a German pre-emptive strike against British Forces near Lombardzyde in an attempt to disrupt British preparations for the coming offensive at Ypres. He is commemorated on the …
Private Hugh Ferguson, 1st/4th (Border) Battalion, Kings Own Scottish Borderers. He died on 26th April 1917, aged 21, from wounds received in action in the attack on “Outpost Hill” during the Second Battle of Gaza and is buried in Kantara War Memorial Cemetery, Egypt. He had been born in Yetholm and was the son of …
Private John William Dumma, 8th Battalion, Gordon Highlanders. He died on Service in hospital on 11th June 1915, aged 19 and is buried in Yetholm Parish Churchyard, Roxburghshire. He had been born in Makerstoun and was the son of Elizabeth and the late William Dumma of Yetholm Mains, Yetholm and Galalaw, Kelso. He had enlisted …
Private William Douglas, 2nd Battalion, Scots Guards. He died in the 4th Casualty Clearing station in Belgium, aged 37, from wounds on 23rd July, 1917 and is buried in Dozinghem Military Cemetery, Belgium. On that day the Battalion, who were preparing for the Ypres Offensive, were in front line trenches on the Ypres-Yser Canal. Here …
Private Walter Douglas, Royal Army Veterinary Corps, 17th Veterinary Hospital, Royal Army Veterinary Corps. He died on Service of pneumonia in the 50th General Hospital in Salonika, aged 35, on 25th of January, 1919 and is buried in the Mikra British Cemetery, Kalamania, Greece. He had been born in Kirk Yetholm and was the son …
Private Adam Dumma, 7th/8th ( Service ) Battalion, Kings Own Scottish Borderers. He was killed in Belgium on 29th July, 1917, aged 24, and is commemorated on the Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres, Belgium. He had been born in Foulden, Berwickshire and was the son of Mrs. Dumma, Yetholm Mains, Kelso, Roxburgshire. Before enlisting he had …
