Private James Hardie

Private James Hardie, 2nd Battalion, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders.  He was killed in action in France on 10th October 1918. aged 32 during the ” Advance to Victory”. He was born in Ladykirk and was the son of Eleanor Hardie of Eccles, Berwickshire and the husband of Kathleen May Hardie of 13 Bath Road, Devizes, Wiltshire. He is buried in Montay-Neuvilly Road, Cemetery, Montay, Nord, France. and his Headstone is inscribed ” Thy Way, Not Mine O Lord He First Loved Thee “.  The photographs show a group of Highlanders checking a dugout in a captured German trench and other Allied troops advancing against the retreating German army during the final 100 days of the War.