Private George Purves Turnbull Laidlaw, 1st/5th ( Territorial ) Battalion, Seaforth Highlanders. He was killed in action in France, aged 21, on the 13th October 1918 during the” Advance to Victory”. He had been born in Jedburgh and was the son of the late Annie Laidlaw and Thomas Laidlaw of 15 Queen Street, Jedburgh. He had enlisted in 1915 and had joined his Battalion in France in 1916. He had been gassed in early 1917 and wounded in March 1918. He fell in the attack against German rearguards near Valenciennes and is buried in Iwuy Communal Cemetery, Nord, France. His brother Robert also fell – see below. The Battalion was part of the 152nd Brigade in the 51st ( Highland ) Division and after the War an impressive Memorial was raised in its commemoration. It was erected in Newfoundland Park mon the Somme where on the 13th November 1916 the Division had stormed the strong German positions in the village of Beaumont Hamel. On the Memorial a Plaque reads in both English and Gaelic ” Friends are Good On the Day Of Battle”. The other photos show troops advancing after the retreating German Army during the final 100 days of the War.