Second Lieutenant William Wight

Second Lieutenant William Stuart Balmain Wight, 3rd (Reserve) Battalion, Royal Scots attached to the 2nd Battalion. He died of wounds received leading his platoon in an attack near the village of Tilloy during the opening day of the Battle of Arras on 9th April 1917, aged 19. He had been born in Grantshouse and was the son of James and Elizabeth Wight of Greenwood, Grantshouse and is buried in Tilloy British Cemetery, Tilloy-Les-Mofflaines, France. Before the War he had been studying agriculture at the East of Scotland Agricultural College in Edinburgh. He was commissioned from the Edinburgh University O.T.C. in January 1916. The photographs show British troops and a “Chum” in the main street of a captured village near Arras

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