The Scottish Military Research Group - Commemorations Project

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

Thanks to Pat Anderson for the photo and the information.
Great War Room, Black Watch Museum, Balhousie Castle, Perth.
Longueval Memorial: Officers, NCO's & Men of the 8th Battalion Black Watch who fell during the Somme fighting of 1916.

Keptie

Thank you again to John Burnett for downloading my photos to this website and thank you too to the Black Watch Trust for allowing me to photograph them for this index .

The Book " A History of the Black Watch in the Gr War edited by Major General AG Wauchope " page 84 covers the officers and ORs casualties

Officers 1914-1918 :

1914 killed , d of w , d on service , wounded , missing NIL

1915 killed , dof w, d on service, 10
wounded 15

1916 killed dof w , d on service 27
wounded 24
missing 2

1917 killed dow , d on service 13
wounded 27
missing 1

1918 killed , dof w , d on service 18
wounded 27
missing 5

TOTAL 169

OTHER RANKS 1914 - 1918

1914 killed , dof w , d on service NIL

1915 killed , dof w, d on service 201
wounded no numbers given
missing no numbers given

1916 killed dof w, d on service 259
wounded 587
missing 95

1917 killed , dof w , don service 288
wounded 523 ( incl 219 on May 2nd , unclassified)
missing 83

1918 killed , dof w, d on service 375
wounded 563
missing 332

TOTAL 3597

stuartn · Joined: 13 Dec 2016 Posts: 2551

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