Muchty Remembers
Remembering the First World War in Auchtermuchty, Fife
First World War Time Line: 1915
Battle of Nivelles.
Second Battle of Ypres.
Captain Fairlie and Highland Light Infantry arrive in France.
Battle of Festubert.
Major Charles Sibley, The Black Watch, visits Auchtermuchty with the 3rd Battalion Pipe Band and recruits eight soldiers for the Regiment. Five of these soldiers, Martin Beckett, Thomas Wilson, Donald Ford, James Blyth and Peter Gray are killed in 1916.
Battle of Loos.
France: Death of Sergeant William White, 9th Battalion The Black Watch, aged 34.
Buried Philosophe Cemetery, Mazingarbe, Pas de Calais.
25 September
26 September
29 November
Loos, France; Killed: Private Andrew Christie, 8th Battalion, Seaforth Highlanders, aged 19. No known grave. Arras memorial, Pas de Calais.
Loos, France: Death of Captain John Fairlie, Highland Light Infantry.
Died of wounds. Buried Choques, Pas de Calais.
France: Death of Private Frank Dick, 8th Battalion, Seaforth Highlanders, aged 34.
Died of wounds. Buried St Sever, Rouen.
1915
10 March
22 March
12 May
14 May
29 May
25 September
25 September
Sergeant William White was buried at Philosophe Cemtery. Private Andrew Christie was remembered at the Arras Memorial.
Captain John Fairlie was buried at Chocques Cemetery. Private Frank Dick was buried at St Sever Cemetery, Rouen.