Private Colin Carmichael of West End, Coaltown of Balgonie, Markinch. In civilian life Colin was a joiner. In 1917 Private Carmichael was twice wounded in France, and was treated in various home hospitals. He went to France again in the autumn of 1917, and was through the fighting in March, 1918. After being in hospital in England suffering from the effects of former wounds and illness, he was discharged in August to go home. Private Carmichael never made it home to his family. His badly decomposed body was found in a culvert near Cramond Brig by some children.

Vanessa Anderson