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PARISH OF WEST LINTON. 39
18. private 3ame6 Z, Iba^ton.
IRogal Scots.
1917— April 9. ■
1917, April 9. — This Monday was the day of the first battle of
Arras. The British advanced on a fifteen mile front between Lens and
Arras. The British Canadians captured Vimy Ridge, with 6000
prisoners, taking five villages also. On the Bapaume-Cambrai road the
British took Deniecourt and Havrincourt Wood ; and north of St
Quentin, Fresnoy-le-Petit, Pontru, and Le Vergnier. On the lOth the
British completed the capture of Vimy Ridge, and occupied Farbas,
north-east of Arras, and Fampaux, four miles east of Arras. They
reached the outskirts of Monchy-le-Preux, and captured Louveval, the
former falling the next day.
The sad news was brought to Mr and Mrs Hayton, Brownsland,
Stobo, that their son, Private jAMES Tennant HAYTON, Royal Scots,
had been killed in action on the 9th April 1917. Much sympathy
was felt in the district for them in their bereavement. As a pupil
of Lyne School, James Hayton was quiet, diligent, and faithful, and
afterwards showed the same traits of character in his life and work
as a mole and rabbit catcher. He left a wife and two children,
who lived in West Linton. Private Hayton enlisted at West Linton
after the outbreak of war. He was born at Sheriffmuir, Stobo, in
1891, and was aged 26 years.