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john burnett · Joined: 29 Jan 2007 Posts: 790 Location: Fife

Thanks to Pat Anderson for photo and information.
Great War Room at the Black Watch Museum, Balhousie Castle Perth:
The men of the Dublin Section, 6th Battalion, Black Watch 1914 -1918.

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Thank you to John Burnett for downloading my photos onto this website and thank you also to the Black Watch Trust for allowing these photos to be added to this project .

In the Book " A History of the Black Watch in the Great War edited by Major General A G Wauchope ... I found this entry on page 126 : 6th Bn BW : the 6th had become an organised unit and went into camp at Queensferry. Here it was immediately joined by TWO detachments , one from BELFAST and another from DUBLIN . It is of interest to record that this Battalion of Highland soldiers had well organised detachments in Ireland in 1914 and that these joined with the same entuhusiasm as did the men from Perthshire ".

Page 216:

OTHER RANKS : Casualties 6th Bn Black Watch:

1914 NIL.

1915 Killed, dofw . d on service 61
wounded 14

1916 Killed , dof w, d on service 246
wounded 371
missing 2

1917 killed , dofw , don service 263
wounded 454
missing 58

1918 killed , dofw , d on service 385
wounded 796
missing 593

TOTAL OTHER RANKS CASUALTIES 3243

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stuartn · Joined: 13 Dec 2016 Posts: 2551

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