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     PRIVATE WILLIAM LEIGHTON S-22813

Royal Highlanders (The Black watch)

  

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Regimental History

 1/5th (Angus and Dundee) Battalion
August 1914 : in Arbroath. Part of Black Watch Brigade, unallocated to a Division.
2 November 1914 : landed at Le Havre.
13 November 1914 : attached to 24th Brigade in 8th Division.
18 October 1915 : converted into Pioneer Battalion to same Division.
6 January 1916 : converted back to infantry and transferred to 154th Brigade in 51st (Highland) Division.
29 February 1916 : transferred to 118th Brigade in 39th Division.
15 March 1916 : amalgamated with 1/4th Bn to form the 4/5th Bn
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.Name: William Leighton
Birth Place: Forfar
Death Date: 1 Apr 1918
Death Location: France & Flanders
Enlistment Location: Dundee
Rank: Private
Regiment: Black Watch (Royal Highlanders)
Battalion: 4/5th (Angus and Dundee) Battalion (Territorial)
Number: S/22813
Type of Casualty: Killed in action
Theatre of War: Western European Theatre

SHOULDER TITLES 

On the evening of the 30th March the 4/5th proceeded to Villers Brettoneux,
the strength of the Battalion was one officer and 30 other ranks.
On Sunday morning,March 31st the remnants of the 118th Brigade moved to Longeau,
near Genelles then on to Rumaisnie by motor bus,
 where on April 1st what was left of the four Battalions of the 118th Brigade was formed into one unit
 and eventually reached Linnier on the 3rd

                 FORFAR

LOWSON MEMORIAL CHURCH

 FORFAR WAR MEMORIAL

iThe Forfar war memorial is a high castellated tower built of rustic blocks of local stone and sandstone quoins. It stands in the park behind the baths on Uplour Road.
The tablet above the door bears the inscription:
'THEIR NAME LIVETH FOR EVERMORE'
ERECTED IN MEMORY OF THE MEN OF FORFAR AND
DISTRICT WHO FELL IN THE GREAT WAR 1914 - 18

 

 

The names of the fallen are on wooden boards inside the building including William Leighton
 

Transcribed from the book

FORFAR & DISTRICT IN THE WAR: 1914-1919.

'Roll of Honour'
LEIGHTON, WILLIAM. Private. Black Watch. France. 2½ years. Missing March, 1918.

GLEN PROSEN KIRK

The Glen Prosen Memorial takes the form of a 'Memorial Porch' which is attached to the Glen Prosen Kirk.

The Cross of Sacrifice on the porch gable has been created, unusually, by the use of slates embedded into the wall itself.

Inside the porch a bronze tablet has been affixed to the wall with the names of the fallen

POZIERES BRITISH CEMETERY

 Pozieres is a village 6 kilometres north-east of the town of Albert. The Memorial encloses Pozieres British Cemetery which is a little south-west of the village on the north side of the main road, D929, from Albert to Pozieres.

On the road frontage is an open arcade terminated by small buildings and broken in the middle by the entrance and gates. Along the sides and the back, stone tablets are fixed in the stone rubble walls bearing the names of the dead grouped under their Regiments.

 

PANELS 49&50

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