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5th Battalion, Black Watch    The 5th (Angus and Dundee) Battalion, Black Watch had their HQ in Arbroath. A Company was from Kirriemuir, Glamis and Newtyle. B Coy was based in Forfar, C coy in Montrose and Crigo, D Coy from Brechin and Edzell, E Coy from Arbroath and Friockheim, F Coy from Arbroath, Carnoustie and Monifleth, G and H Coys were based in Dundee. At the outbreak of War in 1914 they were part of the Black Watch Brigade and their allocated war station was the Scottish Coastal Defences. They proceeded to France on the 2nd of November 1914, landing at Le Havre and joining 24th Brigade, 8th Division on the 13th. They remained on the Western Front throughout the war. In 1915 they were in action at The Battle of Neuve Chapelle, The Battle of Aubers and The action of Bois Grenier. On the 18th of October 1915 converted to a Pioneer Battalion with 8th Division but on the 6th of January 1916 they converted back to infantry and transferred to 154th Brigade, 51st (Highland) Division. On the 29th of February they transferred to 118th Brigade, 39th Division and on the 15th March they amalgamated with the 1/4th Black Watch to form the 4/5th Battalion. 6th Feb 1915 Instruction 8th Mar 1915 Orders   16th Oct 1915 The Derby Scheme 1st Dec 1915 Derby Scheme Armlets 11th Sep 1915 Last day of Derby Scheme Recruitment 2nd of January 1916 Relieves 10th Jan 1916 Group System Reopens 9th February 1916 Call Ups 25th Sep 1917 Into Position   If you can provide any additional information, please add it here. Want to know more about 5th Battalion, Black Watch? There are:9 items tagged 5th Battalion, Black Watch available in our Library   These include information on officers, regimental histories, letters, diary entries, personal accounts and information about actions during the Great War. Those known to have served with 5th Battalion, Black Watch during the Great War 1914-1918. Ballantine James McGregor. Pte. Corsar Robert Spence. Pte. McCallum Walter Keyes. Pte. 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The free to access section of The Wartime Memories Project website is run by volunteers and funded by donations from our visitors. If the information here has been helpful or you have enjoyed reaching the stories please conside making a donation, no matter how small, would be much appreciated, annually we need to raise enough funds to pay for our web hosting or this site will vanish from the web. If you enjoy this site please consider making a donation. Announcements 19th Nov 2024     Please note we currently have a massive backlog of submitted material, our volunteers are working through this as quickly as possible and all names, stories and photos will be added to the site. If you have already submitted a story to the site and your UID reference number is higher than 264989 your submission is still in the queue, please do not resubmit. Wanted: Digital copies of Group photographs, Scrapbooks, Autograph books, photo albums, newspaper clippings, letters, postcards and ephemera relating to the Great War. If you have any unwanted photographs, documents or items from the First or Second World War, please do not destroy them. The Wartime Memories Project will give them a good home and ensure that they are used for educational purposes. Please get in touch for the postal address, do not sent them to our PO Box as packages are not accepted. World War 1 One ww1 wwII greatwar great battalion regiment artillery Did you know? We also have a section on World War Two. and a Timecapsule to preserve stories from other conflicts for future generations.   Pte. James McGregor Ballantine 5th Btn. Black Watch My grandfather, James McGregor Ballantine was born in Newtyle north of Dundee in 1896. He enlisted with the Black Watch Territorials on February 21st 1913. He was on summer camp with them when war broke out and saw service on the Western Front from 1914 to 1918, and served with the colours between August 5th 1914 and April 12th 1919. He was finally demobbed on March 31st 1920. After a few years back in Scotland he went out to India as a manager on the Naihati jute mill north of Calcutta. He married there and returned to Scotland in about 1936. He then took his family, my grandmother, father and aunt out to South Africa in 1838. During the Second World War, he worked at the Kilpfontoen Organic Products, which was secretly producing mustard gas. He died of lung cancer at the age of 51 in October 1947. Chris Ballantine Add to this record.   Pte. Walter Keyes McCallum 1/5th (Angus and Dundee) Battalion Black Watch Walter McCallum left home against his mother's wishes to join up at 16. He was a bugle boy and drummer in the Black Watch. He refused, during his life, to talk about the Great War but did mention, at one time, living on dates. We wonder, if after being wounded he was not sent back to the trenches in Flanders but was sent to a different campaign. Stuart Bowman Add to this record. Recomended Reading. Available at discounted prices.

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