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County of Peebles Book of Remembrance.
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SIGNALLER O. JAMIESON
(Eddleston)
AEGTLL and SrTHEEIiAND HiGHLANDEBS.
1917. December 25 (Tuesday).
Died at a Casualty Clearing Station,
France, on Christmas Day. from bomb
■Wounds, received on 23rd December, 1917,
Signaller G. Jamieson, Argyll and Suther-
land Highlanders, aged 36, dearly beloved
husband of Isabella Work, Foresthill, Ed-
dleston.
Signaller 6. Jamieson joined up on July
25, 1916, from Foresthill, Eddleston.
Signaller G. Jamieson, 7tih A. & S. H. (51st
Division), went to France on June 14th,
1917. He saw much heavy fighting in Sept-
ember up near Tpres and was shell-shocked
on 19th of the same month. He also saw
severe fighting at the Cambrai front, where
the signallers suffered very heavy losses.
They lost their captain there and all their
officers about the 23rd of November, 1917.
The Specialist Section was on their way out
for a rest after their hard struggle at Cam-
brai when he met his death. He was wound-
ed on Sunday, 25th December, and died at
No. 3 CCS. on Christmas Day. In a letter
from his Commanding Officer, he stated that
tihe eiiemj aircrafti had followed them
wherever they went, and that night, just as
they had Iain down to rest, a big raiding
party came over and dropped a big amount
of bombs. A great many of the section
were killed and wounded. All spoke with
the higihest praise of Signaller G. Jamieson,
and one officer said he was loved by all
who knew him.
He was a mason to trade before coming to
Earlyvale.
In the Gates of Death rejoice.
We see and hold the good —
Bear witness, Earth, we have made our
choice
With freedom's brotherhood.
Then praise the Lord Most High,
Whose strength hath saved us whole,
Who bade us choose that the flesh should die
And not the living soul.
If death come,
And take thy dear one, be thou dumb.
Nor gratify with suppliant breath
The attentive insolence of death.
Suffer thy dear one to depart
In silence; silent in thy heart,
From this forth, be thy dear one's name.
So I, that would not put to shame
So dear a memory dead, repeat
No more the sweet name once too sweet.
Nor, from that buried name, remove
The haughty silence of my love.
PRIVATE JOHN FORGIE
(Eddleston and Canada)
Canadians.
1918. Janttaet 15 (Satuedat).
Died in hospital, on 15th January, Private
John Eobert Forgie, Canadians, youngest son
of the late John Forgie, gamekeeper. Cringle,
tie, Peebles, and Mrs Forgie, Dalswiniton,
Dumfries, in his 25th year.
His father used to be gamekeeper at Cring-
letie. He succumbed in hospital after an
operation on his arm. His mother and sister
were employed at Dalswinton House, Dum-
friesshire. They sustained a great shock as
they had not known that he was ill. Pre-
vious to going to Canada, he was employed
by James Robertson, grocer, Peebles. He
wag in his 25th year.
On the 12tih December the British made
a successful raid at I,oos and dispersed four
German raids south of Lens and east of
Monchy. On the 13th, there was a raid by
Canadians north of Lens, which was repeat-
ed by the Britisih on the following day, the
14th. On those days also the British were
successfully bombing various German cities.
The least touch of their hands in the
morning,
I keep it by day and night;
Their least step on the stairs at the doorway,
Still throbs through me, tho' ever so light.
Their least gift that they left to my child-
hood.
Far off, in the long ago years.
Is now turned from a toy to a relic,
And seen through the crystals of tears.