Private James Hope Lunn, 6th ( Service ) Battalion, Kings Own Scottish Borderers. He was killed in action in France, aged 18, on the 25th September 1915 on the first day of the Battle of Loos. He had been born in Jedburgh and was the son of the late Helen and John Lunn of Boundaries, Jedburgh. Before enlisting he had been employed by Messrs J. Boyd & Son of Jedburgh. He fell in the disastrous attack towards the Lens Road Redoubts which met with intense machine gun fire, uncut wire and hidden obstacles. No advance could be made and the Battalion suffered casualties of 357 killed or missing and 272 wounded or gassed. He is commemorated on the Loos Memorial, Dud Corner, Loos, France. The first photo shows an actual mattack at Loos with the men disappearing into a ghostly cloud of smoke and gas. The second is an artist’s nightmarish impression of an attack with the troops wearing their gas hoods.
