Muchty Remembers
Remembering the First World War in Auchtermuchty, Fife
First World War Time Line: 1918
Belgium: Killed: Private Harry Suttie, King's Liverpool Regiment, aged 23.
Buried Zillebeke, Ypres, Belgium.
Second Battle of the Somme to 4 July.
France: Killed: Private David Philp, 6th Battalionn, The Black Watch, aged 36.
No known grave. Loos Memorial, Pas de Calais.
25 May
27 May
19 June
France: Killed: Private John M Muir, 5th Battalionn, Royal Berkshire Regiment, aged 38. Buried Mailly Wood, Somme.
Second Battle of Aisne.
France: Killed: Private Matthew Clark, 6th Battalion, Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders, aged 19. Buried Duisans, Pas de Calais.
1918
3 January
21 March
10 April
Private Harry Suttie was buried at Zillebeke Cemetery, Loos. Private David Philp was remembered on the Loos Memorial.
Private John Muir was buried at Mailly Wood, Somme. Private Matthew Clark was buried at Duisans Cemetery.
15 July
26 July
15 August
8 October
19 October
22 October
2 November
4 November
4 November
9 November
11 November
7 December
1919
1 February
Battle of the Marne to 6 August.
France: Killed: Private Patrick Petrie, 6th Battalion, Seaforth Highlanders, aged 20.
Buried at Marfaux, Marne.
Third Battle of the Somme.
Second Battle of Cambrai to 10 October.
Belgium: Death of Private William Mitchell, 17th Battalion, Royal Scots, aged 33.
Died whilst a Prisoner of War. Buried Heverlee, Leuven, Belgium.
Gallipoli, Italy: Death of Able Seaman Signalman William Grierson, Royal Navy, aged 21. Died of influenza. Buried Gallipoli Cemetery, Italy.
THE INFLUENZA EPIDEMIC. Influenza is spreading throughout the district with alarming rapidity. When the schools reopened on Tuesday after the potato lifting, it was found that a very large percentage was absent from Auchtermuchty School. Fife News.
Battle of Sambre.
France: Death of Private Robert Taylor, Lovat Scouts, aged 27. Died of pneumonia.
Buried Etaples, Pas de Calais.
Private Patrick Petrie was buried at Marfaux Cemetery, Marne. Private Robert Taylor was buried at Etaples Cemetery.
INFLUENZA - The influenza scourge continues to spread. During the week now fewer than 10 of the shops have been closed for a shorter or longer period while no deaths fall to be recroded with the Burgh of Auchtermuchty, four have taken place in the surrounding district. Fife News.
Armistice signed.
DEATHS FROM IN FLUENZA. The death roll from influenza continues to mount up. Seventeen being now the total for Auchtermuchty and district. Fife News.
Toll of influenza is now twenty for Auchtermuchty and district. Fife News.