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1st Battalion, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
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Those known to have served with1st Battalion, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders during the Great War 1914-1918. - Campbell Hugh. Pte. (d.10th May 1915)
- Campbell Malcolm. Pte. (d.12th Nov 1914)
- Clarke Montagu Christian. Lt. (d.8th May 1915)
- Durnion Daniel. Pte. (d.12th May 1915)
- Egan Michael. Pte. (d.11th May 1915)
- Gilchrist William Little. Pte (d.23rd March 1918)
- Given Joseph. Pte. (d.16th April 1915)
- Malloch James. Pte. (d.29th Aug 1916)
- Munro MM. Thomas. Pte.
- Munro MM. Thomas. Pte.
- Paterson MC. Alexander Leonard. Cpt.
- Paterson MID MC Alexander Leonard. A/Capt.
- Russel W.. Pte. (d.5th Jan 1917)
- Shiels Alexander. Pte.
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Pte. Thomas "Changa Drost" Munro MM. 1st Btn. Argyll and Sutherland Higlanders I know a lot about my grandfather Thomas Munro's service and the names of some of his pals. He enlisted in August 1914 and was at Constantinople in 1919. He mustered out in May 1919. He was awarded the Military Medal for Gallantry in the field at 2nd Ypres. He served in the trenches with Colin Campbell Mitchell, Sr. then with the HLI. Colin Campbell Mitchell Sr. won a battlefield commission to Captain in the Argylls and MC and later another MC.
The Argylls experienced 36 days of continual combat during April and May, 1915. My grandfather saw the first poison gas attack in April 1915. He said a medical student from Glasgow University recognized it was chlorine gas and recommended they use urine-soaked handkerchiefs as an emergency measure. I know other stories and events as well.
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Pte. Malcolm Campbell 1st Btn. Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (d.12th Nov 1914) Malcolm Campbell served with the 1st Battalion Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders in WW1. He died 12th of Nocember 1914 aged 27 years. He is remembered on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial in Belgium.
Son of Neil and Jeanie McKechrie Campbell of 25 Glebe St. Campbeltown.
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Pte. Thomas "Pops" Munro MM. 1st Battalion Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders Thomas Munro, began the war with 3rd Battalion, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders and was drafted into the 1st Battalion in December 1914
He reached the Western Front in January 1915 and fought at 2nd Battle of Ypres with 1st Battalion and saw Colin Mitchell, Sr in action then with the Highland Light Infantry. Mitchell won a battlefield commission to captain with Argylls and his first MC (Mitchell would win 2 in WW1)
Thomas served at Salonika and the Struma Valley from 1916 to 1918
and after the Armistice was stationed at Constantinople.
I have several photos from 1914, 1915, 1917 and 1919. Later he emigrated to America and became a naturalized US citizen. During 1937-1945 he worked in ship construction (naval ships and liberty ships). He retired from Bethlehem Steel in the 1950's. I knew him as boy and my father, uncle and older cousins knew him very well
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Pte. Alexander Shiels 1st Battalion Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders Alexander Shiels joined the Army shortly after the outbreak of the Great War and embarked for Belgium with the First Battalion, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders in March 1915.
One month later he saw action in the Second Battle of Ypres where he was gassed in one of the first poison gas attacks ever launched by the Germans.
After recovering from the gas and a subsequent bout of influenza his battalion was transported to Marseilles from where it embarked on a ship for Salonika in Greece. After two years in the mountainous wastelands to the north of Salonika, Alexander was wounded in action on 4th September 1918, suffering gunshot wounds to the neck, right shoulder and thigh. After a month he was pronounced out of danger and transferred from Salonika to a hospital ship in the Mediterranean, the Glengorm Castle. After a spell in Malta he was invalided back to Scotland in early 1919.
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A/Capt. Alexander Leonard Paterson MID MC 1st Btn. Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders An old friend of mine was a Lt/Act Cpt MC in the 1st Battalion and was Mentioned in Dispatches for outstanding gallantry. His name was Alexander Leonard Paterson.
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Pte. James Malloch 1st Bn. Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders (d.29th Aug 1916) James Malloch is buried at Citadel New Military Cemetery, Fricourt. He was born in 1898 in St Rollox, Glasgow to James and Jessie Malloch. Siblings Matthew, Thomas, Isabella, Bessie, Janet, Maggie and Mary Malloch. He enlisted in Barrhead 7th May 1915, a former Miner.
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Cpt. Alexander Leonard Paterson MC. 1st Btn. Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders Alec Paterson became a personal friend when we worked together during the 1970's and. He rarely spoke about his time during the war. Although he had one leg some 2 or 3 inches shorter than the other he never said how it happened. I know he lived in Paris with his wife between the two wars and moved back to England when the German army was advancing on Paris.
He was born in Old Meldrum in the Scottish Highlands and was a regular visitor to Ballater. He always stayed in the same B & B. He took me and my wife for a week's visit. We attended the games at Braemar.
The only item he kept from his army career was his commendation to the King for outstanding gallantry. He was already the holder of the Military Cross at that time.
He had no living relatives and gave me his commendation which I kept for many years until I took it to the Regimental museum at Stirling. I was advised it was filed along with other similar commendations.
I have not been able to trace his military record so I do not know what rank he was when he left the army but was known to me and his other friends as The Colonel. This may just have been a nickname.
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