Corporal James Jamieson

Corporal James Rae Jamieson, 1st/9th ( Territorial ) Battalion ( The Glasgow Highlanders ), Highland Light Infantry. He was killed in France, aged 23, on the 9th July 1915 and is buried in Guards Cemetery, Windy Corner, Cuinchy, France. He was born in Selkirk in 1892 and was the son of James and Mary Jamieson of Howbottom, Selkirk. He had been trained in the Tweed Industry and was a commercial traveller for a Glasgow company. He was living in Glasgow when he enlisted in the Territorials and landed in France on 5th November 1914. On 9th July the Battalion were in trenches at Windy Corner and suffered from a German artillery barrage. One shell landed directly in a trench with 7 men killed. Later in the day a funeral service was held for the 7 casualties when a shrapnel shell exploded in the midst of the funeral party with a further 3 men killed. One of these casualties was Private Jamieson. ( Alec Weir has written an excellent account of the Battalion during the Great War. It is titled ” Come On Highlanders”).