A moment of your time.

[Ron Abbott]

A considerable number of my close ancestors lost their lives in WW1, at Gallipoli, on the western front, at Gaza and at hospitals in England after being evacuated for wounds.

One was Pipe Corporal Adam Porteous of the 1st Bn. Royal Scots Fusiliers who was wounded three times in France/Flanders in 1915 and who subsequently died of his wounds in a hospital in England. A career soldier he had previously served in South Africa and in India.

Another was Private Thomas Abbott of the 1/7th Royal Scots who was killed at the 2nd Battle of Gaza on 19th April 1917. He had survived Gallipoli only to be killed in action later.

Alexander Downie was killed at Gallipoli in January 1916, probably as a result of shell fire; just as his battalion was evacuating.

Alexander Porteous was killed at the Somme and William Strathearn died in a Liverpool Hospital of wounds received on the western front.

And these are just some of the ancestors that I have researched......

Lest we forget......