... five months in France. His brother David, a promising student of St Andrews iJniversity, was killed in action in the battle of the Somme in October 1916. Private Thomas Skene, Gordon Highlanders, son of the late Mr Thomas Skene, is in hospital in France ...

... a mechanic at Manor Works, was called up at the outbreak of war as a nsemtcr of the H.C.8., awl was wounded in the Battle of the Somme two years ago. WOUNDED. Sapper George Salmonl, a Forfarian eerving in the Royal Engineels, ha. 811Stainol a severe wound ...