Piers Hemy wrote:
> Thanks for the reminders, in more senses than one, Donald. We stood in the
> cemetery at Marfaux three years ago, with my wife's uncle, who until then
> had no idea where his father (1/6th Black Watch) had died (when his son was
> three years old). There was no marked grave, but the date, the progress of
> the 2nd battle of the Marne, and the terrain were all circumstantially
> definitive. His father had died in the fields and woods across the main
> road, along with about 800 others, a third of them unnamed casualties (as
> you will have seen) on 20 July 1918. www.cwgc.org does not list the regiment
> for unnamed graves - you have to visit to see how many there are, and the
> Seaforths and Black Watch stand out. All of them part-time Territorials, who
> had volunteered for "Home Defence" to replace the regulars posted to France.
>
> I will locate my own album and post it.
>
> --
> Piers
Andrew Easson was Fiona's paternal grandmother's brother. Fiona's gran
visited with her daughter and son-in-law once. While there we found a
Dalgarno, who might be related to the aforesaid son-in-law. As you say,
so many Seaforths and Black Watch.
Her other relatives are on the Thiepval memorial, two Stewart brothers
with the Black Watch. Fiona's dad was also Black Watch, just too late to
see service in WW2. They were on their way to the Far East when the war
ended, and were diverted to occupation duty in Austria.
As I mentioned once before, my mum's father and his brother both served
and came home. No idea about the MacDonald side. But we did find a
McLeod in Flatiron Copse from near my McLeod relatives in Skye...
D.
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