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7th Battalion, Seaforth Highlanders
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Those known to have served with7th Battalion, Seaforth Highlanders during the Great War 1914-1918. - Allen Albert Edward. Pte (d.12th October 1916)
- Baillie Robert. Pte. (d.28th Sep 1918)
- Cousins Michael. Pte
- Craven Francis Ferguson. Pte. (d.10th Aug 1918)
- Lamb James. Pte.
- McKenzie MM Henry Norman. Pte. (d.1 Homelea)
- Stewart Walter Forbes Low. (d.25th Sep 1915)
- Strathdee George. Sjt. (d.12th Oct 1916)
- Williams Thomas. Cpl.
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Pte. Francis Ferguson Craven 7th Btn. Seaforth Highlanders (d.10th Aug 1918) Frank Craven served with 7th Seaforth Highlanders.
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Sjt. George Strathdee 7th Btn. Seaforth Highlanders (d.12th Oct 1916) Sergeant George Strathdee died on 12th of October 1916.
He was part of the 7th Battalion, Seaforth Highlanders who on that day attacked the Snag trench at the Butte de Warlencourt. They were decimated by enemy machine gun fire.
Family folklore states that he was wounded and was being taken from the battlefield when he was killed by friendly artillery fire from a bombardment which fell short of its intended target.
132 Seaforth Highlanders were killed on that day.
George had also been wounded in 1915 at the battle of Loos. Had been sent back to the UK to recuperate and later returned to France in 1916
Gordon Strathdee Fingland
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Pte. James Lamb 7th Btn. Seaforth Highlanders My grandfather, James Lamb, from Dundee was born in May 1899 and was a Jute Factory Overseer at the time of his marriage in 1923. I believe he enlisted while under the age of 18. I possess an original certificate showing that he donated blood for transfusion at No.36 Casualty Clearing Station on 28th of October 1918. He lived to be 85.
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Walter Forbes Low Stewart 7th Btn. Seaforth Highlanders (d.25th Sep 1915) Walter Stewart served with the 7th Seaforth Highlanders.
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Cpl. Thomas Williams 6th Battalion Seaforth Highlanders Only through this website have I found out about my grandfather Thomas Williams. Mum didn't really know him as he died when she was 6. I've been looking into his records and information is being released like layers of an onion falling away over the last few years. I found out he was born in New Jersey. I have military records telling me this but no birth certificate.
He was 20 in 1901, he was 5'6" had grey eyes and brown hair. A slim build with a 34 inch chest and he first enlisted in Belfast, The Royal Irish Fusiliers, where he served in the Boer War. I have a short attestatiion record in his records for this. He was awarded 3 medals, The Queens South Africa medal, The Kings South Africa medal and The Kandahar medal.
After his discharge he met my gran in Scotland somehow. They married in 1910 in Glasgow, my home town.
He worked in a sewage work with chemicals in Dalmarnock and he and my gran, along with their eldest daughter, lived in Hutchestown in Glasgow. Formerly known as Gorbals. Over the next few years his records show he was sent home then re- admitted to hospital. Over his last few weeks. The medical officers start to call him the man in his notes. Not a patient or a soldier but a person. He had an honorable discharge by then. They say he looked Gravely Ill, he had several tumours, one on his neck and they drained it but they discovered it had revealed deep vessels. He died of massive haemorrhage on 11th of November 1922.
Mum stayed with her brother, sister and mother till 1928 when she lost her mum as well. You will understand there wasn't much for mum to tell. She used to say he was an Irish American and even now I can't figure out how this young man who was born in New Jersey, America, moved back to Ireland, met and married my gran and died in Scotland.
I am so proud of him and I am a great grand mother myself. I am now paying my respects to him every November. I thank the poor house medical staff who were there for men like my grandad.
RIP Grandpa
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