James, we know you were formerly a gamekeeper at Guisachan, so you would certainly have learned how to shoot, but not of course when you were firing the 15 Pounders with which your unit was first equipped. Your unit was, of course, A Battery, 71st Brigade, 15th Division who had been involved in the Battle of Loos in September 1915. Just before the Battle of Arras in April you had been re-equiped with howitzers, and reached your forward positions by 14.30 hrs on 10th April to support 111th Infantry Brigade in their attack, but we read that you were ordered back before the attack took place. I guess you would be glad of this respite. You were later involved in the 3rd Battle of Ypres, but by then you had been re-equiped with 18 Pounders. Yet more learning needed! On 21st March 1918 you were bombarding St Quentin, firing over open sights at point blank range at the massed German infantry, but you had difficulty in stemmng their advance. It was during this engagement that you met your death. As well as at Arras you are commemorated on the family gravestone No 54 in Struy Cemetery, together with your brother George killed the year before you. Your father had died in 1911, so we have much sympathy for your mother. Rest in Peace. Harry.

Henry Harrison