Corporal Thomas Riddle, “A” Battery, 112th Brigade, Royal Field Artillery. He was killed in action in Belgium, aged 34, on the 27th June 1917 and is buried in Kandahar Farm Cemetery, Flanders, Belgium. He had been born in Cavers and was the son of Robert and the late Jane Riddle of Midgard, Cavers and the husband of Annie Riddle whom he had married in Glasgow in 1915. He had enlisted as a Regular in the Royal Horse Artillery in 1902 and had spent 9 years in India. He was discharged after his term on enlistment on 28th July 1914 but re-enlisted as a Gunner on the outbreak of War on the 1th August 1914. He went to France in September 1915 and was serving with the 25th Division’s Trench Mortar Battery when he was killed when a shell hit his dugout. ( His Obituary has his Rank as Battery Sergeant Major ). The photos show heavy and light trench mortars in action.