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Pte. Harry Salvona Hunter
British Army 11th Btn. Royal Scots (Lothian Regiment)
from:Leith
Harry Hunter was my father. He was born in 1899 in Trafalgar Lane in Leith. He told me he ran away from his work aged 17 after a fight with the owner! His first stop was Dalmany Street Recruiting Office. He ended up as No. 1 in a Lewis Gun Team in 16 Platoon, D Company, 11th Royal Scots. In late 1918 in the advance along the Menin Road he was badly wounded.
He died in 1969 but his stories were told to me in the fifties so my memory is stretched a bit too. That's all he would say apart from the funny stories about army life in the trenches. In keeping with most soldiers I believe. The pictures are of him in the Boy Scouts around 1915 and one of a letter he sent to his pal, later my Uncle George.
