Edmund Moffatt served with Scottish regiments before joining the Sherwood Foresters. In "The Sherwood Foresters in the Great War 1914 - 1918, the 2/8th Battalion" by Lt-Colonel W. C. Oates, DSO, p 138 : "Our bad luck was to continue, as the Hun tried to lob shells into the  Quarries. Captain Moffatt, ever ready to consider his men, had just succeeded in getting them away in the open, and was on the point of leaving himself when a shell struck him, with the result that he died from his wounds three days later. An Officer of great ability, he had at his own request been transferred from the Cameron Highlanders to the 2/8th Sherwood Foresters, showing his devotion to the Battalion by voluntarily giving up his Kilt - a rare surrender for a Scot! He had seen much service in this War going out in the early days as a Private soldier. His loss was deeply felt by all.

Madeline Tanner