Andrew Paterson a Fallin Worthy (Sterlingshire) KIA 1918

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article5254225.ece



Forgotten for almost 90 years…



http://www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=595412



http://www.cwgc.org/search/cemetery_details.aspx?cemetery=65802&mode=1



“Montay was reached in the Pursuit to the Selle on the 10th October, 1918; and on the 28th and 29th the cemetery was made by the 33rd Division and given the name of Selridge from its position above the river valley. It contained originally 60 graves, dating from the 10th October to the 1st November, the majority belonged to the 6th or 12th Lancashire Fusiliers or the 2nd Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders”





Private Andrew Paterson :



ARGYLL AND SUTHERLAND HIGHLANDERS SAN PEUR (without fear)



Killed just as the big push towards victory was starting. “Greater love hath no man than to lay his life down for his friends.”



KIA October 10, 1918 (FRANCE; NE OBLIIVCARIS DO NOT FORGET





“in the eyes of Christ the ever young, no less than a king of realms far flung” Aye, now in the land o’ the leal.



RICHARD KEITH MUNRO



In memory of all the lads and all my grandfather’s Scottish pals and his kith and kin of the Argylls, the HLI and Black Watch, in the 27th Division, whom he never forgot and whose absence in his life was a sorrow and a loss he had to bear for over fifty years most of which was spent in exile from his native land taking delight only in his nine grandchildren.



2nd Ypes, Gallipoli, Palestine, Egypt, Salonika, Derian, Struma Valley and Constantinople (1919)



(THOMAS MUNRO , SR., MM 2n Ypres: August 4, 1914 – November 30, 1919 ASH) “Up the Ants; the men of Company A his Scottish pals…..” Over 7,000 killed and over 20,000 casualties in that one Regiment alone. Many companies had a 200% or 400% casualty rate; over 90% of my grandfather’s company of 1914 were killed, wounded or invalided out by 1918.



They were in my Auld Pops’ words “THE FINEST LADS IN THE WAARRRLD, AYE.”


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