Muchty Remembers
Remembering the First World War in Auchtermuchty, Fife
First World War Time Line: 1917
Iraq: Death of Private James H Smith, 2nd Battalion The Black Watch. Age 24.
Buried Basra War Cemetery, Iraq.
Battle of Arras to 16 May.
France: Killed: Able Seaman Robert Christie, Royal Navy Division, aged 25.
No known grave. Loos memorial, Pas de Calais.
France: Death of Private John Anderson, 10th Battalionn, Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders, aged 23. No know grave. Arras Memorial.
Battle of Messine to 14 June.
22 June Battle of Passchendale, 3rd Battle of Ypres, to November.
Belgium: Killed: Private Henry L Strathearn, Scots Guards, aged 21.
No known grave. Tyne Cot Memorial, Zonnebeke, Belgium.
4 October
16 November
22 November
France: Killed: Private David Balfour, 2nd Battalionn, Gordon Highlanders, aged 26.
No known grave. Tyne Cot Memorial.
France: Death of Private James Laing, 9th Battalion, The Black Watch, aged 19.
Died of wounds. Buried Duisans, Etrun, Pas de Calais.
Egypt: Death of Corporal Colin Aitchison, 1st/5th Battalion, Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders, aged 25. Died of wounds. Buried Port Said, Egypt.
Private Henry Strathearn and Corporal David Balfour were remembered at Tyne Cot Memorial.
Private James Laing was buried at Duisans Cemetery. Corporal Colin Aitchison was buried at Port Said Cemetery, Egypt
Private John Anderson was remembered at the Arras Memorial.
Priavte James Smith was buried at Basra War Cemetery. Two Black Watch soldiers inspect the grave stones at Basra.
1917
3 March
9 April
23 April
3 May
7 June
22 June
14 September