Private Adam Weatherstone, ” D ” Coy. 11th Battalion, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders. He died in France on 21st September 1916, aged 20, from wounds received in action during the Battle of the Somme. He had been born in Ancrum and was the son of George and Margaret Weatherstone of Wellrigg, St Boswells. He is buried in Dernacourt Communal Cemetery Extension, Dernacourt, Somme France where his Headstone is inscribed ” Until The Day Break “. The photographs show Scottish troops on the Somme and the colour photo shows a peaceful Somme landscape today with ” no gas, no barbed wire, no guns firing now”.
Private Adam Weatherstone
- First World War
