... worked in the mines for 54 years. Mr Ross served with The Black Watch during the First World War and was wounded in the battle of the Somme. “My first son was only weeks old when | enlisted,”” Mr Ross commented. He also served six years as a Special Constable ...

... Scots. He saw service in France for most of the war, having joined in 1914, but m 1917 he was seriously wounded in the Battle of the Somme, and was invalided home. i ~ After the wedding, Mr and Mrs Winn lived in a house at the east end of East Wemyss, and ...

... the But the Pint was quite bad usedespite the crude weapons d,Uwe than 20.000 of oar men teU In one day alone In the Battle of the Somme. The total number of men In the Allied forces killed in the gleccod World War may never be known with any great degree ...