Private Andrew Paxton

Private Andrew Paxton, “A” Coy.,  7th/8th ( Service ) Battalion, Kings Own Scottish Borderers. He is also commemorated on the Swinton and Edrom Memorials. He was killed in action in France , aged 21, on the 18th August 1916 during the Battle of the Somme. He had been born in Swinton and was the son of Andrew and Grace Paxton of Mountfair, Swinton and Hilton, Chirnside. He is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France. At that time the Battalion was involved in the fighting around ” Switch” and ” Intermediate” trenches  and suffered badly from enemy shellfire. The photos show Scottish troops on the Somme. The colour image shows a peaceful Somme landscape today ” with no gas, no barbed wire, no guns firing now”.

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