Company Sergeant Major Robert Walker, 1st Battalion, Seaforth Highlanders. He was killed in action near Neuve Chappelle in France, aged 33, on the 15th April 1915. He had been born in Cavers and was the son of the late James and Davina Walker of Cavers and Mervinslaw, Jedburgh. He is buried in Royal Irish Rifles Graveyard, Laventie, France where his Headstone is inscribed ” Thy Will Be Done”. He had enlisted as a Regular Soldier in around 1899 and had served with the 2nd Battalion in South Africa during the Second Anglo-Boer War. In 1902 he was transferred to the 1st Battalion in India. The Battalion went from Agra to Marseilles in October 1914 and then to the Front.