... leaving School. During the First World War, he served with the Royal Scots, and lost part of his right arm in 1917 at the Battle of the Somme. i K Despite his handicap, Mr Hampton joined the Post Office in Forfar after the war, and worked on a rural dfiivery ...

... During the First World War he served with the 4/6th Battalion The Black Watch in France and was taken prisoner at the battle of the Somme. He joined the LMS Railway Company at Forfar in 1927 and remained with the railways until his retiral in 1957. He was ...

... (he lost his issue), but he got this badge from Fred Steele, whose father, Mr J]. Steele, was killed at the second battle of the Somme in 1917. Before joining up he worked on the railway. j The badge has been in the family ...

... 5/12/80 Can you help? Sir, — | would very much like to hear from men who took part in the autumn battles on the Somme 1916 and who would be willing to help me with some details. | am writing therefore to ask you whether you could consider putting an appeal ...

... could. Jim Small was then an air mechanic in the Royal Flying Corps and the First World War was at its height, The Battles of the Somme had in the immediately previous months brought a blood bath without precedent in British history and a realisation ...

... represented the 4/sth Black Watch in the Divisional Party which attended the 50th anniversary commemoration of the Battles of the Somme. Highlight for the slst was the commemoration service at the Divisional Memorial near Beaumont Hamel. W.O. Dear played ...