Private Thomas Nesbitt, 111th Field Ambulance, Royal Army Medical Corps. He was killed in France, aged 30, on 21st March 1918 during the first day of the German March Offensive (Operation Michael) and is commemorated on the Pozieres Memorial, Pozieres, Somme, France. He had been born in Galashiels and was the son of the late George and Barbara Scott Nesbit of Lauder Hill, Lauder and had enlisted in August 1915. The photographs show Allied troops preparing to resist the German advances.