Private George Currie

Private George Hardie Currie, 2nd Battalion, Royal Scots Fusiliers. He was killed in action in France on 30th July 1916, aged 28, during the Battle of the Somme. He had been born in Melrose the son of Emily and the late William Currie of the Post Office, Melrose and is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial, Thiepval, Somme, France. He had originally enlisted in the K.O.S.B. before transferring to the R.S.F. in June 1916. He fell on the eve of the attack on Trones Wood which cost the Battalion 633 casualties. The photos shows Scottish troops on the Somme and the colour image depicts a peaceful Somme landscape today with ” no gas, no barbed wire, no guns firing now”.

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