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PARISH OF WEST LINTON. 13
5. flDajor artbur San^cr9on.
1RoBa[ Scots.
I9i5~june 28.
1915, June 28. — This was a Monday. On the day previous the
British had carried four Turkish lines near Krithia; and on the 28th
June the British attacked Achi Baba. On the 29th the Turkish counter-
attacks were repulsed with heavy loss, and on the 30th the French
captured six lines of Turkish trenches.
Three officers fell on this day, each with a Linton and Leith
connection — -Major Sanderson, Lieutenant Thomson, and Second-
Lieutenant Thomson.
Major Arthur Sanderson served in the Leith Volunteer Battalion
(5th Royal Scots) in 1895, and thereafter in the Territorial Battalion
(7th Royal Scots). He received the Long Service Medal. On the
outbreak of war Major Sanderson volunteered for foreign service, and
left for Gallipoli on the 22nd May 1915. The 7th Royal Scots arrived
at Gallipoli on the 13th June, and Major Sanderson fell in action
on the 28th June.
The service in the Parish Church of West Linton on the llth July
1915 was of the nature of a memorial one, when the Rev. S.
M'Lintock, at the close of his sermon on "The Tears of Jesus," paid
the following tribute to the memory of Major Arthur Sanderson: —
" Our thoughts have been led into this channel to-day through the
sorrow which has visited so many homes of heroic Royal Scots, who
have fallen in that terrible struggle and memorable battle at the
Dardanelles. Some of these gallant officers and brave rank and file
are known to many of us, and others of them are related in tender
ties to those whom we highly esteem and respect. Major Arthur
Watson Sanderson, 7th Royal Scots, was amongst these, and was
as well known here as in Leith, and as highly honoured. He was
naturally a military man, born with the spirit of the soldier, which
was shewn in his receiving the Long Service Medal from the King,
and in his great interest in the men and work of his Battalion. His
was a kindly disposition, of upright character, and noble life, and his
end was in harmony with it — a service of loyalty to his King and
country, and to the cause of righteousness, truth, and liberty. To his
sorrowing widow and little children, and his revered mother and
family, in their days of great loss and mourning, our hearts go out in
sincere sympathy, and in the prayer that God may sustain and
comfort them."
5. flDajor artbur San^cr9on.
1RoBa[ Scots.
I9i5~june 28.
1915, June 28. — This was a Monday. On the day previous the
British had carried four Turkish lines near Krithia; and on the 28th
June the British attacked Achi Baba. On the 29th the Turkish counter-
attacks were repulsed with heavy loss, and on the 30th the French
captured six lines of Turkish trenches.
Three officers fell on this day, each with a Linton and Leith
connection — -Major Sanderson, Lieutenant Thomson, and Second-
Lieutenant Thomson.
Major Arthur Sanderson served in the Leith Volunteer Battalion
(5th Royal Scots) in 1895, and thereafter in the Territorial Battalion
(7th Royal Scots). He received the Long Service Medal. On the
outbreak of war Major Sanderson volunteered for foreign service, and
left for Gallipoli on the 22nd May 1915. The 7th Royal Scots arrived
at Gallipoli on the 13th June, and Major Sanderson fell in action
on the 28th June.
The service in the Parish Church of West Linton on the llth July
1915 was of the nature of a memorial one, when the Rev. S.
M'Lintock, at the close of his sermon on "The Tears of Jesus," paid
the following tribute to the memory of Major Arthur Sanderson: —
" Our thoughts have been led into this channel to-day through the
sorrow which has visited so many homes of heroic Royal Scots, who
have fallen in that terrible struggle and memorable battle at the
Dardanelles. Some of these gallant officers and brave rank and file
are known to many of us, and others of them are related in tender
ties to those whom we highly esteem and respect. Major Arthur
Watson Sanderson, 7th Royal Scots, was amongst these, and was
as well known here as in Leith, and as highly honoured. He was
naturally a military man, born with the spirit of the soldier, which
was shewn in his receiving the Long Service Medal from the King,
and in his great interest in the men and work of his Battalion. His
was a kindly disposition, of upright character, and noble life, and his
end was in harmony with it — a service of loyalty to his King and
country, and to the cause of righteousness, truth, and liberty. To his
sorrowing widow and little children, and his revered mother and
family, in their days of great loss and mourning, our hearts go out in
sincere sympathy, and in the prayer that God may sustain and
comfort them."
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