Private William Pringle 7th/8th ( Service ) Battalion, Kings Own Scottish Borderers. He died in the Anderson Sanatorium Hawick, aged 21, from T.B. on the 2nd June 1918 and is buried in Stitchill Parish Churchyard, Stitchill, Roxburghshire. He had been born in Lesmahagow, Lanarkshire and was the son of the late Archibald and Agnes Pringle of Blackwood, Lesmahagow. He was the adopted son of Archibald and Sarah Pringle of Stitchill Schoolhouse. He had been employed as an apprentice ironmonger in Jedburgh when he enlisted in the 3rd/4th ( Reserve ) K.O.S.B. in November 1915 and was posted to the 1st Battalion in France in March 1917 before being transferred to the 7th/8th Battalion in April 1917. He was diagnosed with T.B. and evacuated home in November. In January 1918 he was discharged from the Army and awarded a Silver War Badge.
