Lance Corporal Simon Dalgleish

Lance Corporal Simon Dalgleish, 1st/4th ( Border ) Battalion, Kings Own Scottish Borderers. He was killed in the successful attack on El Mughar, Palestine, aged 30, on 13th November 1917. He had been born in Ednam, Roxburghshire and was the son of James and Jane Dalgleish of Rumbletonlaw, Gordon and Huntly Wood, Earlston and is buried in Ramleh War Cemetery, Palestine. (Now Israel). He had already served at Gallipoli and Egypt before the Battalion had advanced into Palestine as part of the 52nd (Lowland) Division. In this attack and the fierce hand to hand combat that followed the Battalion suffered casualties of 4 Officers and 31 Other Ranks killed and 9 Officers and 138 Other Ranks wounded. 300 Turkish prisoners were taken and many machine guns and other War material. The photographs show the Borderers at Ramleh in late 1917. The three Borderers are Alec Lawrie, Willie Cockburn and Jim Murray all of whom had played football for Coldstream F.C.