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7th Battalion, Black Watch    7th Battalion, The Black Watch was a Territorial unit based at St Andrews under command of the Black Watch Brigade, when war broke out in August 1914. They were mobilized and moved to Queensferry to man the Forth Defences. In November 1914 they moved to the Tay Defences. On the 16th of April 1915 they moved to Bedford to join 2nd Highland Brigade in Highland Division and prepare for deployment overseas. They proceeded to France, landing at Boulogne on the 2nd of May 1915. On the 12th of May the formation was renamed 153rd Brigade, 51st (Highland) Division and concentrated in the area of Lillers, Busnes and Robecq. They were rushed to the defence of Ypres when the enemy attacked using poison gas on the 22nd of April 1915, and were in action until the 19th of May when they moved to Estaires on the River Lys. They were in action in the The Battle of Festubert and The Second Action of Givenchy before moving south to The Somme taking over the line near Hamel. In 1916 they were in action in the Battles of the Somme, including the attacks on High Wood and The Battle of the Ancre, capturing Beaumont Hamel, taking more than 2000 prisoners. In 1917 They took part in the Arras Offensive, The Battle of Pilkem Ridge, The Battle of Menin Road Ridge and the Cambrai Operations. They remained in the Cambrai area until the 21st of March 1918, when the enemy launched an overwhelming attack and the Division were engaged in a fighting withdrawal back to Bapaume. In April they moved north and fought in The Battles of the Lys before a quiet spell at Oppy near Arras, from May to July. They were then in action at The Battle of the Tardenois, The Battle of the Scarpe, The pursuit to the Selle and the Final Advance in Picardy. They were resting the Cambrai-Iwuy area at the Armistice and demobilisation began December. The 6th Black Watch, 4th Seaforth Highlanders and 4th Gordon Highlanders were selected to join the Army of Occupation on the Rhine and left for Germany in February 1919.  7th Black Watch  The HQ of the 7th (Fife) Battalion, Black Watch was in St Andrews. At the outbreak of war in 1914 they were part of the Black Watch Infantry Brigade and their allocated war station was the Scottish Coastal Defences. A Coy based in Dunfirmline, B Coy in Lochgelly, C Coy in Kirkaldy, D Coy in Cowedendeath, E Coy was from Cupar, Newburgh, Auchtermuchty and Abernethy, F Coy from Leven, Colinsburgh and Largoward, G Coy from St Andrews, Guardbridge, Anstruther and Crail, H Coy was from Leslie, Marckinch and Thornton. 5th Aug 1914 7th Black Watch man Kingshorn Battery.  At the outbreak of war in August 1914, Kinghorn Battery was manned by the 7th Fife Territorial Battalion, Royal Highlanders who had been been mobilized 5 days earlier. They spent the first few weeks digging new defences to protect the Rosyth Naval Base against the threat of a German landing in the East of Fife. 15th Apr 1915 Hand over  In mid April 1915 Kinghorn Battery was handed over to the 2nd/7th Battalion Black Watch, with the 1st/7th Black Watch departing for Bedford to join their Divsion enroute to France. 5th May 1915 On the Move   6th May 1915 Orders   8th May 1915 Orders 9th May 1915 In Reserve 10th May 1915 In Reserve 11th May 1915 In Reserve 12th May 1915 In Reserve   13th May 1915 In Reserve 14th May 1915 On the March   15th May 1915 In Reserve   16th May 1915 In Reserve   17th May 1915 In Reserve   18th May 1915 Orders Received   19th May 1915 Reliefs   20th May 1915 Relief Complete 21st May 1915 Trench Work 22nd May 1915 Trench Work 23rd May 1915 Some Shelling 24th May 1915 Intermittent Shelling 25th May 1915 Occasional Shelling 26th May 1915 Intermittent Shelling 27th May 1915 Heavy Shelling   28th May 1915 First taste of trenches   28th May 1915 Quiet Day   29th May 1915 Line Advanced   29th May 1915 Instructions   30th May 1915 Order Received   31st May 1915 Reliefs   31st May 1915 Orders   2nd Jun 1915 Trench Work 3rd Jun 1915 Trench Work 4th Jun 1915 Reorganisation 5th Jun 1915 Quiet 6th Jun 1915 Relief Complete 7th Jun 1915 Orders Received 8th Jun 1915 Orders 9th Jun 1915 Preparations 10th Jun 1915 Preparations 11th Jun 1915 Preparations 12th Jun 1915 Orders   13th Jun 1915 Artillery Active 14th Jun 1915 Artillery in Action 14th Jun 1915 Orders   15th Jun 1915 In Action   15th Jun 1915 Attack Made   15th Jun 1915 Report   16th Jun 1915 Reliefs   16th Jun 1915 Attack Made   16th Jun 1915 Attack Made   16th Jun 1915 Report   16th Jun 1915 Orders   17th Jun 1915 Reliefs   18th Jun 1915 Orders Received   19th Jun 1915 Artillery in Action   22nd Jun 1915 Relief Completed 23rd Jun 1915 Trench Work 24th Jun 1915 Orders 25th Jun 1915 Orders Received 26th Jun 1915 Reorganisation 27th Jun 1915 On the Move 28th Jun 1915 HQ Moves   29th Jun 1915 Orders Issued 30th Jun 1915 Mine Explodes 16th Oct 1915 The Derby Scheme 1st Dec 1915 Derby Scheme Armlets 11th Sep 1915 Last day of Derby Scheme Recruitment 4th Jan 1916 Hardly a Rest 10th Jan 1916 Group System Reopens 6th February 1916 Battalion marched to Poulainville. 9th February 1916 Call Ups 1st Jul 1916 Shelling 2nd Jul 1916 Mine 3rd Jul 1916 Shelling 10th Jul 1916 Camouflet 11th Jul 1916 Shelling 12th Jul 1916 Reliefs   13th Jul 1916 Trench Raid 14th Jul 1916 Relief Completed 15th Jul 1916 On the Move 16th Jul 1916 On the Move 19th Jul 1916 Orders 20th Jul 1916 On the Move   21st Jul 1916 Orders Received 22nd Jul 1916 Reliefs Completed   23rd Jul 1916 In Action   24th Jul 1916 Heavy Shelling   25th Jul 1916 Heavy Shelling   26th Jul 1916 Relief   27th Jul 1916 Attacks Made   28th Jul 1916 Shelling   29th Jul 1916 Heavy Shelling   30th Jul 1916 Attack Made   31st Jul 1916 Consolidation   31st Jul 1916 Report   1st Aug 1916 Instructions 10th May 1917 Sports Day 15th Oct 1917 Preparations   19th Oct 1917 Line Taken Over   13th Nov 1917 In Action   14th Nov 1917 In Action   16th Nov 1917 Report   If you can provide any additional information, please add it here. Want to know more about 7th Battalion, Black Watch? There are:193 items tagged 7th 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 7th Battalion, Black Watch during the Great War 1914-1918. Archibald John Gibb. L/Cpl. Bruce Oliver. 2Lt. (d.9th June 1918) Campbell Charles Ronald. Pte. (d.31st Jul 1917) Ferrier William. (d.7th July 1916) Fullerton-Carnegie MID,MC. George David Howard. Heath John Doulton. Cpl. Hosie Alexander. Pte. (d.19th May 1917) Humphrys DSO MC. H. J.. Lt.Col. McLaren George. Pte. (d.13th Nov 1916) Nicoll William. Pte. Parker Thomas. Pte. (d.26th March 1918) Simpson Alexander Herd. Pte. Smallman George. Pte. (d.21st March 1918) Smith John. Pte. (d.24th May 1915) Stewart John Armit . Pte. Thompson Frank. Pte. Thomson George. Pte. Turner Robert. Pte. 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William "Postie" Nicoll 7th (Fife) Btn. Black Watch William Nicoll was born at 88 South Street in April 1885. His parents, Andrew and Isabella Nicoll, were descendants of fisher folk and can be traced back to Andrew Kipper c.1750, a shipwright who stayed at the Lady Head in the East End of St. Andrews. Most of his youth was spent in and around St. Andrews and Balmullo, where his father had a market garden. William was a founder member of the 1st St. Andrews Boy’s Brigade and was a member of the Colour Party at the laying of the foundation stone of the BB Hall. On leaving school, William started work as a postman delivering the mail in Leuchars and Ferry Port on Craig, now Tayport. During this time, he met and then married Agnes Gold Taylor, who worked in service in Tayport. They were married in Abdie Parish Church in 1910. They stayed for a time in North Street and then moved to 12 Southfield where 3 daughters and 3 sons were born. My father Joseph, the third oldest, was born in 1916. At the outbreak of the First World War, William joined up with the 7th (Fife) Battalion, Black Watch. He was severely wounded at Passchendaele in 1917 and was admitted to No. 8 General Hospital Rouen on 22nd of October 1917 with gunshot wounds to thigh, hands, and left ankle. He spent almost 4 years in hospital in Glasgow and was visited regularly by Agnes, my grandmother, and their eldest daughter, my Auntie Nessie. On the first night of William’s return home to St. Andrews, my father asked my grandmother “Is that man going to stay here with us?” He had never seen him since he was a baby! After recuperating at home, William returned to service in the post office in St. Andrews where he delivered mail from St. Andrews to Largoward, stopping at farms east and west of the Largo Road. This he did on foot, on bicycle, and with a pony and flat cart, 365 days a year. His favourite time was after the mail was safely delivered – on the way home he would stop at the top of The Waterless Brae, just north of Cameron Kirk road end, light his pipe, then freewheel all the way down the Largo Road home. Around 1933 or 34, William, Agnes, their 3 sons and 2 daughters (Auntie Nessie was now married) moved to 4 Cannongate just off Largo Road. William was a keen gardener, bred canaries, and owned greyhounds which he entered coursing. William also had a hen farm in the fields beyond the old railway, about where Broomfaulds Avenue is now. He also had a pony called Joe. I never found out whether the pony was named after my dad or vice versa! In the first year of the Second World War, William was due to retire but was asked to fill the position of temporary postmaster for St. Andrews, which he held until the end of the war. For his service, he was able to secure a small pension for Agnes, my grandmother. William and Agnes’s three sons served in the war as did two of their daughters, and thankfully all returned home with no physical injuries. After the Second World War, William retired and worked part-time as a janitor at St. Leonards school where, I am told, the highlight of his day involved him lighting his pipe at the bottom of the St. Leonards clock and smoking it while he climbed the steps to wind the clock! He enjoyed his retirement and could always be found up at the hens or in his vegetable garden. Coursing with his greyhounds also took up his time, and he was the last winner of the Colinsburgh Cup after which he refused an offer of a blank check for the sale of the greyhound. My father told me how he never knew the extent of my grandfather's injuries until well after he was retired. My father would go to Cannongate in the morning to clean and light his fire for the day. Granddad asked my father on one occasion to help him sit up in bed. He noticed that part of his left thigh, buttock and hip were missing due to the injury he had sustained at Passchendaele. This didn't seem to hinder him in any way, and he must have been in pain for most of his adult life. What a remarkable and brave man my grandfather was! William died on 11th of November 1964. Ron Nicoll Add to this record.   Pte. George Smallman 7th (Fife) Battalion Black Watch (d.21st March 1918) George enlisted with the 7th Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers as a Territorial at the beginning of WW1. After being stationed at coastal defences in south-east Northumberland his battalion was sent to France landing on 21st of April 1915 where they became part of the 149th Brigade, 50th (Northumbrian) Division. Within six days of landing in France his battalion took part in the 2nd Battle of Ypres and were involved in the attack on St. Julian where they suffered enormous casualties. Of the 1200 men who part in his battalion, 800 were either killed or injured. His battalion continued to operate in the Ypres Salient and were involved in several battles including those at Hooge, Wulverghem, Armentieres and Hill 60 which was a few miles south of Ypres. His local newspaper, The Berwick Advertiser, reported in May 1916 that George was home on leave after being wounded on three separate occasions. It is assumed that George was sent to a holding depot, after he'd recovered and sent to join the 7th Battalion, Black Watch. George saw more action with the Black Watch and was involved in the First Battle of Cambrai in northeast France, between the 20th - 27th November 1917, where large numbers of tanks were used for the first time in battle. It appears that George was wounded again on the 29th of December 1917 as his local newspaper reported in January 1918 that he had just come out of hospital again after being wounded two times while serving with the Black Watch. George was killed near Bapaume, along with thousands of other men, during theSecond Battle of the Somme on or after the 21st March 1918. George has no known grave however is name is remembered, but wrongly inscribed as John Smallman, at the Faubourg-d'Amien Cemetery at Arras. Add to this record.   2Lt. Oliver Bruce 2nd Btn. Rifle Brigade (d.9th June 1918) Oliver Bruce (1896 - 1918) is my 1st cousin 2x removed. I am researching my family history and came across these details of his military career in which he was a casualty in France on the 9th of June 1918 He served with 7th Black Watch as a Private and was commissioned into the 6th Rifle Brigade as Second Lieutenant and transferred to 2nd Rifle Brigade. Helen Miller Add to this record.   Pte. Frank Thompson 7th Btn. Black Watch My grandfather, Frank Thompson, served with the 7th Battalion, Black Watch and the 5th and 4th Battalions, Seaforth Highlanders in WW1. Chris Thomas Add to this record.   Pte. Alexander Hosie 7th (Fife) Battalion Black Watch (d.19th May 1917) Alexander Hosie was one of two brothers killed in WWI whilst serving with the Black Watch, the other was William Hosie who was with the 6th (Perthshire) Battalion and died on the 24th of October 1918. T McIntosh Add to this record.   Lt.Col. H. J. Humphrys DSO MC. 8th Btn. Royal Scots Lieutenant Colonel H.J. Humphrys CBE DSO MC, served with the 7th Black Watch, 179th and 251st Tunnelling Companies Royal Engineers, the 8th Royal Scots (as CO) and was one of three Ilkeston brothers serving in WW1. The others were, Lieutenant Leonard Humphrys, 11th Battalion Sherwood Foresters and Royal Engineers (home service) and Captain C C Humphrys, Royal Naval Reserve. Charles Kenyon Add to this record.   Pte. John Armit Stewart 1/7th Btn. Black Watch John Stewart was captured near the village of Beugny, which lies between Cambrai and Bapaume, on day one of the Spring Offensive. Records show that he was not wounded at the time of capture and that he was sent to Parchim camp, although he may also have passed through Friedrichsfeld at some point. Until his death in 1966, he barely spoke about the war, although my father recalled him talking about gathering nettles to make soup. Alan Stewart Add to this record.    William Ferrier 7th Btn. Black Watch (d.7th July 1916) William Ferrier was the eldest and only son of William and Margaret, and my mother's brother. Now lying in Aubigny Military Cemetry, France. "Rest beloved, rest until the day dawns." Ross Watson Add to this record.   Pte. Alexander Herd Simpson 7th Battalion Black Watch My grandfather Alec Simpson joined the Fife Territorial Battalion, the 7th Black Watch during WWI, he was probably recruited in St Andrews where he was living at the time and working as a golf club maker. He then went to Kinghorn Fort on the south coast of Fife near Kirkaldy for training and to assist in coastal defence and sent a photo home from there on 9th of April 1915 showing him dressed as an MP. While fighting near Festubert in France on about 24th May 1915 Alec was wounded in the thigh and the shoulder and spent the night in no man's land waiting to be rescued. He was then saved by Captain C.H. Maxwell and sent to Edmonton Military Hospital in Silver Street, North London. It was there he met my grandmother, a nurse and they fell in love and were later married. He had many operations on his leg and always walked with a limp and used a cane. My grandmother kept the newspaper clipping regarding his injury but I don't know what newspaper it came from. If anyone knows I would love to find out. I also have a group photo showing him dressed as an MP, maybe your family member is in the photo? The article reads: Another man who fared badly out in the open was Pte. A. H. Simpson, formerly a golf club maker with Messrs Forgan, St Andrews. Sergt. Cecil ? also a lad from the “Grey City”, saw him fall; but as Alick immediately lit a cigarette, it was thought that his wounds were slight. Next morning, however, while we were all busy at our allotted tasks, a faint cry was heard from "No Man's Land," and a soldier was seen to be lying a considerable distance in front of our line. Word was sent round to Captain C.H. Maxwell, our Anstruther officer, that there seemed to be one of our men lying out in the open. When next the call came, Captain Maxwell shouted in reply, "Hello, who are you?" "I belong to the 7th Black Watch." came the response. A Gallant Captain. Without a moment's hesitation the gallant Captain, calling upon someone to accompany him, jumped over the parapet, and made his way in the direction from which the call had come. Sergt. Douglas F. Adamson - "Big Dob" as we used to call our popular Cupar comrade - and Pte. William Winton, Milton of Balgonie, were close at Captain Maxwell's heels. Together they reached the wounded man, who proved to be Pte. Simpson. Captain Maxwell and Pte. Winton immediately carried him in, and as they raised him he pointed to a shell-hole nearby, where lay L/Cpl. W.B. Watson, a fellow-townsman of Captain Maxwell. Poor Watson had been severely peppered by machine gun fire, and succumbed to his wounds. Sergt. Adamson at once raised him on his shoulders, and he, too, was brought back into our own lines. The machine gun section, under Lieut. A. C. Westwood, had also been having their own share of the casualties, and the first Cupar member of our battalion lost his life here. This was Pte. John Pratt, previously an ironmonger, with Capt. T. J. Robertson’s firm. He had been out making a sap for the machine gun in front of the line, when a shrapnel shell came over. A fragment hit him on the head, and he died almost immediately. Two other Cupar men were wounded by the flying metal – Pte. William Smith, who, singularly enough, had entered the trenches on his nineteenth birthday, and Pte. David. H Simpson Add to this record.   L/Sgt. Alexander Wallace 1st/7th Battalion Black Watch (d.23rd Dec 1916) Alexander Wallace and his three brothers all served in the First World War, Alexander Andrew and David served with the 7th Battalion Black Watch and Charles who has immigrated to Australia served with the 16th Battalion Australian Imperial Force. Alexander died of wounds received during the Battle of Beamount Hamel on the 23rd December 1916 and at the time of his death his brothers Andrew and Charles had died. David Wallace survived the war, moved to Australia and was my grandfather Roger Sweetman Add to this record.   Sgt. Andrew Wallace 1st/7th Battalion Black Watch (Royal Highlanders) (d.25th Sep 1915) Andrew, David and Alexander Wallace served with the 7th Battalion, Black Watch. Andrew was a professional soldier at the outbreak of World War One and his two brothers enlisted and served in the same unit at the outbreak of War. Andrew's other brother Charles had immigrated to Australia before the war and enlisted in the 16th Battalion Australian Imperial Force. Andrew and Alexander were killed on the western front while Charles was killed at Gallipoli. David Wallace survived the war and immigrated to Australia and was my Grandfather Roger Sweetman Add to this record.   L/Cpl. John Gibb Archibald 7th Btn. Black Watch L/Cpl. John Gibb Archibald of the 7th Battalion, Royal Highland Regiment, was from Leslie, Fife. His father was a skilled marksman and won medals in the Scottish Twenty Club. This love and skill of shooting was passed to John, who represented Scotland at Bisley and also won Scottish Twenty Club medals. In order to pay for the ammunition and transport to the events John joined the Royal Highland Regiment (Black Watch) as a Territorial. Upon declaration of war the Black Watch was mobilized, but not the Territorial Battalion. John declined to serve in the regular units. Based on his previous experience he was made a Lance Corporal (he refused any high rank since he did not want to be responsible for other soldiers' lives), and was a marksman/sniper. In early 1915 the Territorial 7th Battalion was mobilized and sent to training camps in Perth and Ayr, before being sent to Bedford for two weeks training prior to embarkation to France in May 1915. John was in the line from May 1915 until an unknown time in 1915 (his service record was destroyed during bombing of the National Archive at Kew in WWII). He only ever recounted one story about sniping while in France - shooting a German officer one morning while shaving. In 1915 he was invalided out of the army due to an enlarged heart (cardiomegaly) and told to go home, do light work (if any), and prepare to die. He finally passed away in 1970. The memory of taking other men's lives haunted him. Sandy Archibald Add to this record.   Pte. George McLaren 1/7 Battalion Black Watch (d.13th Nov 1916) My grandfather, George McLaren was a reservist with the 7th Battalion Black Watch. A postcard from him to his daughter (my mother) Joan, in 1912 (only two at the time) is from the training camp Monzie, near Crieff. It would appear that he probably went to France in 1915, arriving at Boulogne on 2nd of May 1915. Sadly I do not know for certain what his activities were until his death at the Battle of Acre Heights on 13th November 1916 while carrying ammunition forward towards the German front line. Mist and mud made the advance difficult and the weight of the ammunition boxes made progress slow. The original letter, written by Captain A K Watson to my Grandmother still exists and tells of how her husband died. This is a small scrap of paper dated 17th Nov 1916 and, no doubt, written in moments during combat conditions. A small number of letters from my grandmother and from his brothers were returned (which I still have). He is buried in the Y-Ravine Cemetery. Ken Kennedy Add to this record.    George David Howard Fullerton-Carnegie MID,MC. 1st/7th Btn. Black Watch George Fullerton-Carnegie was wounded twice, mentioned in dispatches and awarded the Military Cross. S. Flynn Add to this record.   Pte. John Smith 7th Battalion Black Watch (d.24th May 1915) My grandfather, John Smith was killed in Flanders and is buried at Le Touret, Pas de Calais Add to this record.   Cpl. John Doulton Heath 7th Btn Black Watch John Doulton Heath was my grandfather who drove ambulances in France and Belgium during the Great War. I have studio photos of him in uniform and in France by vehicles with colleagues. I also have postcards sent from France by him to my father. Trevor Heath Add to this record. Recomended Reading. Available at discounted prices.

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