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QMS. Francis Thomas McLintic
British Army Cameron Highlanders
from:Inverness
My grandfather Francis McLintic enlisted in Inverness in the Cameron Highlanders in 1906 and was injured at the Battle of the Somme. He was discharged due to shell shock and lived the rest of his life, as I understand it, in institutions of some sort until 1963 when he died in Edinburgh. His last residence was with the Little Sisters of the Poor in Gilmore Place, Edinburgh, although according to one of the nuns his last known address before that was "West House". I don't know where that is. I do not know where he stayed between being discharged and his ultimate death since his wife, my grandmother moved the entire family [my father and aunt and a couple of her younger sisters] down to England since her husband didn't recognize her any more. It is a sad story.
By chance a few years ago I googled the name of my grandfather's sister and as a result came into contact with that side of the family. They too did not know much about their uncle Frank since their mother never visited him although she talked fondly of him. It was a veil of silence over both parts of the family and indeed, when I was a child I was told he had been killed in the First World War. I had no photos of him or my great grandfather since my grandmother had burned them all. As a result of my googling efforts though I received a wonderful surprise - the reconnected side of the family sent me photos of him and my great grandfather and great grandmother as well as other photos of my father and aunt. The stigma of mental illness, I suppose, was so huge that people could not bring themselves to admit they had a relative who suffered from it. My grandmother lived the rest of her days in England, a staunch member of the local church, pretending she was a widow.
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