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3rd Battalion, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
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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. R. Blair Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (d.6th December 1918) Private Blair is buried in the east part of the Kinsale (Ringcurran) Church of Ireland Churchyard, Kinsale, Co. Cork, Ireland.
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Pte. Acton Balloch 3rd Btn. E Coy. Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders Acton Balloch was my maternal grandfather. I have his pay book and medals that show his service number as 3/7164. His wife, Rose, died after giving birth to his son Charles. He died after the war from his wounds and they left four orphans, Annie, James, Cathy [my mum] and Charles.
Rose's mum cared for them even though she had a shell shocked son to care for as well. His name was Charlie Sweeney [22359] and he lied about his age when he enlisted. I don't know in which unit he served.
Like so many other young men of that generation Acton joined up on 5th of August 1914, the day after Great Britain declared war. He was discharged on 26th of May 1919 as being no longer physically fit for war service Para 392 KR.
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Cpl. James Craig Muir 3rd Btn. D Company Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (d.19th Jul 1916) We believe James Craig Muir was our paternal grandfather went missing at the Battle of the Somme, leaving four children as orphans, following the death of his wife after giving birth to their last child, our father Thomas. We believe he was promoted on the battlefield but it was never ratified. The children were split up and cared for by relatives on both sides of the family. Our maternal grandfather, Samuel Smith of Glasgow was gassed in the trenches and couldn't return to his previous employment as a carpenter because of the sawdust. This had a devastating effect on our mother's family, forcing both her and her mother to go out to work, the former at 14. Grandfather Smith died in his 60s
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Capt. John Aidan Liddell 7 Sqd. Royal Flying Corps (d.31st Aug 1915)  Capt. John Liddell died 31st August 1915, aged 27 and was buried in Basingstoke South View or Old Cemetery. He served with 3rd Bn. Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders before transferring to 7 Squadron RFC.
He was the son of John and Emily C. Liddell, of Sherfield Manor, Basingstoke.
An extract from The London Gazette, dated, 23rd Aug., 1915, records the following:- "For most conspicuous bravery and devotion to duty on 31st July, 1915. When on a flying reconnaissance over Ostend-Bruges-Ghent he was severely wounded (his right thigh being broken), which caused momentary unconsciousness, but by a great effort he recovered partial control after his machine had dropped nearly 3,000 feet, and notwithstanding his collapsed state succeeded, although continually fired at, in completing his course, and brought the aeroplane into our lines - half an hour after he had been wounded. The difficulties experienced by this officer in saving his machine, and the life of his observer, cannot be readily expressed, but as the control wheel and the throttle control were smashed, and also one of the under-carriage struts, it would seem incredible that he could have accomplished his task."
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