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Lt. John Robert "Old Jimmy " Jamieson
British Army Highland Brigade; later 178 Siege Battery RGA RFA (Aberdeen); later RGA
from:Burnside, Netherley, Kincardineshire
My father John R. Jamieson (1877-1936) enlisted in Edinburgh. Used to handling heavy horses, he joined the RFA (Aberdeen) Highland Brigade. He was later commissioned into the RGA and served in France. I was 2 when he died and have no personal memory of him, but I have a number of interesting mementoes including: His diary for 1918 (including positions of the Battery), and notebook of lecture notes; Six Trench Maps. A copy of "The Old Front Line" (John Masefield, 1917). A copy of "A Battery in France", an account of the service of 178 Battery RGA, including some amusing anecdotes about JRJ. Picture postcards of Arras, Albert and elsewhere. His uniform, including sword; "Pip, Squeak & Wilfred" medals. Ashtray made from bullets and hand bell made from Ypres brass;
At the end of the War JRJ was made a Chevalier de Merite Agricole.
