John, we know that you were born in Applecross in 1893, but your family moved to the Ploughman's Cottage at Struy when you were about two years old. You enlisted in the Lovat Scouts, Service No 2755 and we read on the family gravestone inscription in Struy Cemetery that you had served in Egypt and Palestine, but the inscription does not tell us the date when you were there. However, we know that later you served in the 74th Company, Machine Gun Corps, Service No 49694 when you died on 25th September 1918 aged 25. So far as your service with the Lovat Scouts is concerned we know that you were 21 years old when war broke out and it was possible that you were engaged in the fighting in the Suez Canal Zone early in 1915, but we do not know if the Lovat Scouts were there then. In the later stages of the war the Lovat Scouts formed the 55th Company of the Imperial Yeomanry, and they were mainly employed as rapid response reinforcements where necessary. Since we do not know the date of your transfer to the Machine Gun Corps we do not know the exact location of the fighting where you met your death. However, since your grave is in Rouen, and since the weather had slightly improved by the 25th of September, and we know that several British attacks were made on the German line that day, you probably were involved in supporting those attacks. Rest in Peace. Harry.

Henry Harrison