My great uncle. The Arbroath Roll of Honour says of him: Gunner Colin Grant Paterson, 351st Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery (TF), 31 Barnwell Terrace, Govan, was the son of Alexander Paterson and of his wife, Isabella Caird, 33 West Newgate, Arbroath. He was thirty-eight years of age, and had married Elizabeth Chapman, and left one son [Alexander] and two daughters [Robina and Isobel]. He had been employed with Mr Colin Grant, and was subsequently a boot-finisher at Shieldhall, Govan. He enlisted in December 1915, and served in this country and in France. When in action on the 6th of June 1918 a shell fell close to the gun, and the gunners shifted their quarters; Gunner Paterson, however, was the last to cross the intervening ground for shelter, and another shell dropping killed him instantaneously. He was buried in a cemetery near the place where he fell. His section officer, writing of him, said:-"He was well liked by both officers and men, and was a most energetic and faithful man in the execution of his duties."

Rosemary Robertson